Skunked.

[bassfisher02]

Well, today I decided to do alittle fishing on Lake Lafyette [not so much on, but from the shore ]. I wasnt expecting to really catch much, if anything [due to the fact I'm boatless, and with this lake having some great bassin' the spots are only accessable by boat..], but my main reason for the outting, other than the obvious fact its fishing, is that I recently purchased a new rod and reel, Penn Captiva, and recently spooled it up with some 50lb powerpro that I wanted to get broken in before I do some extreme fishing with it. And let me say, for once in my life, I was dissapointed with the powerpro. Maybe its because I'm used to 20lb PP, and the 50lb was a step up, but since I'm also doing a lot of saltwater fishing with it, I decided to kill 2 birds with 1 stone. The issue with the PP was the fact I wasnt casting as well as I'm used to, so it was kinda getting on my nerves. Anyways I started out casting off of what they call 'fishing fingers' into the lake, and got nothing using the tiki dipstik in red/watermelon flake. But I was amused with 2 people who had a dog out there, looked liek a father and son, and the dog and son were swimmming in the water and I noted a 4' gator approaching rather swiftly, I made them aware of this and they got out. Then about 5 minutes later after the gator had gone under they allowed the dog to venture back down to the shore line paw deep in the water, not smart. Nothing happened to the dog and they eventually left. Anyways I went on fishing with everything from tikistiks to trick worms to spinnerbaits and topwaters with no avail. Decided to try my luck and tell myself this is my last cast, hoping to nail a hawg on it, but nothing. Not even a nibble. I did scope out a nice cypress tree feild across the lake, that I will be fishing extensively as soon as I get a boat. There are some big bass in this lake, you just need a boat.