My fishing buddy Casey gave me a call yesterday to see if I was up for a day on Lake Petit again. Ha, that’s funny as I live to fish.

The last couple of times we were out on Lake Petit it was windy and the water was like chocolate milk, well yesterday wasn’t any different.

I looked out one of my office windows into my backyard and could see the tree tops swaying. It was another windy day but that wasn’t going to stop me from hitting the water.

Our first two trips out on Lake Petit we were skunked and as I was getting into Casey’s truck I laughed and said ‘Three strikes and I’m outta here.’

The waves were bigger than the first couple of times we were out so we decided we would head up Turtle Creek and see how it was in there.

It was much less windy in there but you could see the effect the wind had had on the water already. The creek, normally pretty clear water and stoney bottom was chruned up and dark but the wind was much less in there.

There was a covered bridge up the river a bit that I didn’t even know existed. It was here that Casey could see that the water was up a two feet higher than normal.

We have had a lot of rain this summer so it didn’t surprise me. Jamie and I have been out a few times to places that would normally be almost dried up at this time of year and the water is still there.

We headed up the creek and I caught the first bass, but it was too big to fit in a picture so you will just have to imagine it.

Okay it was all of 8 inches long. I laughed and asked him to go get his mother and gently dropped him back into the water.

A little further up Casey had a strike and jumped up saying it was a great hit.

Just as he said that I saw it jump and to me it looked about the same size as the one I had. I said ‘No, I don’t think so, he just thinks he is big.” and then I laughed.

When Casey brought it to the boat it was considerably bigger than I had thought. I guess I need new prescripton sunglasses.

We fished way up Turtle Creek, way further than Casey had gone before as the water was pretty high.

We pulled up beside another fisher who had just released a 19″ smallie, which lifted our hopes. He said he was fishing a plastic worm and that the fish were right on the bottom.

We saw him again later but he hadn’t caught anything else.

Shortly after that I caught another huge smallmouth bass. Well it was bigger than my first bass. I am sure it went all the way to 11 inches.

The places we fished had a gravel bottom. I think it would be a great place to catch pre-spawning bass. We will have to give that a go next year.

It was still a whole lot better than sitting in my office typing all day.