Fishing The Overton Arm (January 23, 2019)

By LOREN BROOKS

One is better than none!
No one likes to announce, they were “skunked” while fishing the Overton Arm. But it happens. When there are four anglers on the boat, and only two fish caught that day, the others on board said it was a beautiful day and a nice boat ride. A number of anglers are trying to explain. Some anglers headed south, from marker 12, with negative results. Some went north of marker 19, or what use to be marker 18 with few fish in the live well. Those people I talked to who went way up, I mean way north, came back with four. Two others claimed three. Some anglers went north and south with negative results.

It’s January. The water temperature has dropped several degrees since December. Maybe it’s the moon. It’s reported that the water level came up for a few days. Maybe some anglers are not using bait, such as anchovies.

I appreciate 4 filets that came off the lake this week for Monday’s fish fry for local missionaries that are coming to dinner. A pound of frog legs will be part of the fry pan using Panko (Japanese bread crumbs) and lots of homemade bread and elderberry jelly.

I was told that two anglers came back from fishing south with a catch of 20.
At any rate, there are those that keep on, keeping on. Dan Roy and Lee tied into a 3.5 pound large mouth, and the color of two crappie made for a nice picture (see above).

All I did was bake bread, with intentions of delivering some. But it never made it to all the doors intended. I’ll get back on the water, or at least report who’s who when it comes to catching fish on the Overton Arm. Call me and send some pictures.

Oh by the way, Dan from SLC, called me this week and said he was giving me a 16 foot bamboo fishing rod, that he received from the neighbor next door. He sent me a picture of the rod. I recognize it as a surf rod used on the “Outer Bank”, Nag’s Head, or Kitty hawk, North Carolina. I saw
this rod in the Smithsonian Magazine with an angler holding a 60 pound striper caught on the Outer Banks.