Fidgety Fishermen

Hey Everyone!

This is the time of the year that fishermen start to get a little fidgety. You'll see boat shows and fishing classic sales start to pop up at local stores. But before you load up the worms, crickets and chicken livers you may want to wait for mother nature to come around a bit.

We've had winter weather that we haven't seen in these parts in quite some time. It seems torrents of rain wash in freezing temperatures followed by another round of thunderstorms. The fish don't seem too impressed with the conditions.

I recently talked to my buddy Tom Hamlin. He fishes a lot of local tournaments and he told me recently a guy won a local competition at Lake Sinclair with just eleven pounds in his live well. Tom said he fished his buns off and only caught a few small ones. And imagine the frustration for the guys that persevered out on the water and didn't get one bite the whole night.

Tom who has gone to the Bassmaster Classic before says the fish just don't feel that great right now with all that mud and stuff washing into the lakes. And think about it, if you don't feel that well you don't hunker down to a good meal. The fish, and pardon the pun, are rather in the same boat.

So keep browsing through those catalogs and hoping for warmer days. In no time I'll probably see ya out on the water reeling in those big ole fish.

Suzanne Lawler