About 3:30 PM hit the Clinton River Cutoff Mouth. Dark, drizzling, cold and the wind was cooperating. But the rain had muddied the Clinton River had turned the bay to the color of strong coffee with cream. Fished a hot spot with a 5/0 White Dive Banger ripping it in hard pops to try to get noticed. Same in the near shore corner of the old boat launch bay. Out the long rip rap Break wall on the far east of the bay had better water clarity but no bait fish seen and not one fish moved to 5/0 or 2/0 Dive Bangers.
Metro Beach Black Creek backwaters is only 5 miles away. Lots of Largemouth Bass and some Pike are always there. The water looked good. I Sometimes get to report something like "After approximately 3 cast the popper got hit by.....". I decided to actually count the cast today. After about 327 cast and retrieves, the popper was resting on the water under the rod tip when what appeared to be a small bass swam through it. He didn't seem to actually wanted to hurt it. Similarly what looked like a Bluegill did the same thing 20 feet down the cattail edge.
This Swan species holds its neck straight up and down and unlike our common Mute Swan, these Trumpeter Swans were grumbling loudly that I had taken over a cattail edge that was sheltered from the North wind.
Nothing else till near 8:00 PM and many more cast. I was retrieving the 2/0 Dive Banger when I saw a good sized wake from a fish slowly swimming just below the surface behind it. I pause and waited, the hit came and I got him.
