Got up this morning around 500 and wasn't able to get back to sleep, so around 630 I decided to get up and hit Lake Tye for a few hours before work.

The sun was out and the weather was really pleasant. There were probably 5 or 6 other fellas out there on the east bank and I headed out to my usual spot on the west bank. The water level was up quite a bit, must have been the rain or run-off or something, but some of those shoreline areas were under water!

There were a few fish rising, smaller than usual. I was fishing a 24" leader with some chartreuse sparkle power eggs on one rod and on the other I was switching it up quite a bit. I used everything on the other rod: silver dick nite, gold floating rapala, and a blue rapala jerk bait.

After about an hour in I got a light hookup on the silver dick nite. It was a smallish stocker trout and he was really lazy, and I brought him all the way up to the bank when he decided to let go. oh well, you can't win them all.

After 2 hours and nary a bite on the long leader with the power eggs, I decided to switch it up and for my "last cast" before I had to go to work I used one of those pre-tied snelled hooks with the 8" leader and orange power eggs. After 2 minutes, I had a taker. He definitely was not a stocker rainbow because he had a lot of good fight in him and went airborne several times. Well worth the trip and now I have lunch for tomorrow. It makes me wonder though, would I have gotten more hits with that shorter leader???

Some days I wish I would just call in sick.

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