Wow, this was a great few days. Temps were in the 80's, the water temp was around 84, light breeze, and not many people. We were catching white perch, stripers, chain pickerel, catfish, and some spotted bass. We spent a lot of time beached and being lazy...just an awesome lake trip. Here's a few pics and videos...
We got to spend a few days at the lake, finally. The last few weeks have been upside down, and we've had no time to go. Summer is upon us, we've got to make time, somehow.
The lake was pretty much at full pool (299.85' ASL), water temp almost 80 (was at 79.something on Saturday eve), light breeze, and blue skies. Our martin house is full of birds raising babies. We caught blue catfish, spotted bass, and a pretty good white perch. I was able to wash the playpen on the pontoon boat while beached at Pink Hill, and repaired some of our Bullet reels while back at the houseboat. All in all, it was a great time!
This is the full step-by-step process of replacing the rubber pushbutton cover on the Zebco Bullet.
We've had Zebco Bullit Reels since 2016, 10 years as of now. We LOVE these reels! Crazy retrieve ratio, flawless non-blowup casts, and virtually no maintenence. 9 ball bearings make these reels amazingly smooth and beasts when used with braid.
The only issue, for the most part, is the flexible neoprene rubber covers over the thumb release. After years, they'll dry rot and crack. I'm about to replace the covers on 4 of our bullets, and just got these in the mail. I'll post more on the process, later. Here's the parts I got from a supplier.
I bought 2 of these for just under $4 on Temu, including shipping. Gonna give them a try.
Last stop, on the way home from some early morning bank fishing... the Big Branch bridge on Fowler's Road. Boy, I gotta take the weed whacker here and clean up a bit. We were ready to go home and have breakfast, but had to stop for a minute and look.
The water is LOW, this drought is hitting our area hard. Water flow / movement was very very slow, no side feeder creeks were running in. Almost stagnant... Beautiful place, not a bite on our bass rigs, but we didn't try hard, either. We'll be back...
After leaving the Airfield pond, Deb and I headed over to Glory Road. If you check out Glory Road in the "Fishing Hole Catches" part of the RH menu, you'll see the continual deterioration of this spot since 2017. It was heavily damaged in 1996 during hurricane Fran, and the road was never reopened. In recent years, the bridge had given way and collapsed, but this is sometimes a good fishing spot. We're in a severe drought currently, so the water is low and flow is slow. 1 bite today, no catches here. To be fair, this location is usually mostly bluegill, and we were only bass fishing...
