Flash Mob at Canal at 4:40 a.m. this morning

[Swimmer]

Getting to the canal this morning with very few cars at the Herring Run and at only a few minutes after 3 a.m. was a minor victory considering how hard it is to get up and drive an hour at that time of the morning.

Getting to your favorite spot to find it empty is even better. Especially since there were feesh (plural of fish) there yesterday (unfounded rumor). (Which doesn't mean a god damn thing I know)

4:01 a.m. Guy takes position to my right and begins casting not in front of him, but in front of me immediately. Didn't happen every time, but enough so that it was annoying.

4:02 a.m. six young fellas, who were polite and gentlemenly, planted themselves to my left, within one pole, effectively, but not purposely, taking away my drift to the left on the incoming. So my area to fish now was only twenty feet to my right and twenty feet to my left. A few minutes later there were about fifty to sixty people fishing within forty to forty five poles of where I was standing.


6:38 a.m. everyone but me left.

7:00 a.m. Hess family rides by and said the only fish (single fish, non plural) taken they saw yesterday in the same area, right next to where they were fishing, just a few poles away from where I was fishing as I was chatting with them, no blitz, no multiple 30 #ers, just one caused all these guys to show up.

It was a very nice morinng regardless of the crowd. First cast using a recently won Afterhours yellow danny brought a flash of interest from a teen size bass, but no take. It came up behind the plug, bumped it hard then turned to leave from about twenty-five feet away. At dawn small fish showed, but only one was taken on what I don't know.