Great week for fishing last week. Monday was my first time taking my grandson fishing in freshwater. We headed to the Stick Marsh hoping for his first bass to be caught.

Our bite was very slow for the both of us which made for a not so day of catching but my mission was accomplished with him landing his first bass throwing a wacky work in the stumps. He was excited to see alligators freely swimming around and when they started to make their growling noises the look on his face was priceless.

The next day once again back on Stick Marsh with my friend that I fish with once a week and once again it was a grind with only 12 bass to the boat. I really thought a new moon would have created a better bite for us, but it just didn’t happen. Friday everything changed from fishing to catching to end our week. My mission was to bring a fly rod and maybe get a bass if at all they were willing to bite better. My first spot I always stop at on Stick Marsh didn’t give up a fish, so I moved on. In recent outings, I’ve been watching lots of bird activity along one of the shorelines so with the correct wind, off I went to see if it was holding fish.

Once I idled into the spot, I made my first cast throwing a Yo Zuri Pencil lure that has a “Walk the Dog” style to it and after a few twitches of my rod tip it was blasted by a bass that after getting it to the boat was about 4 pounds. I released it back to the water and made another cast close to where the last fish came from and once again another big blow up and another bass of similar size made it to my boat. I quickly pulled out my fly rod to see if I could get one fish at least close to the same size as the other two and was gifted with not just one but 20 more!

I started with a Double Barrel popper pattern but lost it on my third fish after it wrapped me around a stump. I tied on a Stealth Bomber pattern and proceeded to catch away. Then the sun came out from behind the little cloud cover I had and the wind made a slight direction change and the bite was over, just like that. It was a great end of the week for fishing but on a sad note my trim and tilt switch went out on my boat so now it’s back to Boathouse Discount Marine for the fix.