Water is down a couple feet from our last trip and it was tough launching on the unimproved side of the launch area.

On the water by 8 and concentrated on the pilings and the deep water to the east. Nothing doing for us. The stuff that usually works didn't--nor did anything else we tossed.

All we managed to accomplish was to lose a Hudd trout and then the lure retriever we tried to recover it with. Must have been a deep piling broken off.

I almost broke the tips off of two nice rods poking into the piling "forest" on the west side trying to retrieve a $5 swimjig--stupid.

Hot and muggy day. I felt lucky to escape with only the lost lure and retriever.

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