Delays in my blog information

 Sorry folks, I have been delinquent in maintaining my blog inputs but I think that you will understand if I explain. I started having medical difficulties in December. Not to elaborate on those issues, they caused me to loose the months of December and January, because i could do no fishing. I eventually resolved those problems, at least I thought I had. Once healed, I went out and got a Covid vaccination (both shots).About 6 weeks ago I permitted the ladder to fall out from under me when working on a roof. The fall was fine but the sudden stop really hurt. Hospital stay and scans eventually showed no breaks but serious muscle damage. At that point I was using a walker.  A couple weeks later I started passing blood (seriously). before I could get to a doctor I was tested positive for Covid. (remember I had the vaccination).

When visiting a doctor about the bleeding, I found that I had contacted the Shingles and I had a bleeding situation in a bleeding toe. Tests were run on the blood situation, and I am awaiting the results and a September doctor meeting will do some scanning on my kidney. Meanwhile I have cleared the Covid and will now deal with the toe. That's enough to make you understand my absence.

I did get out fishing yesterday just to break the cabin fever. It was hot and I wasn't ready for that activity but I did catch a couple of real nice sized channel catfish and a couple perch. No sign of bass but the water temp. is hot and everything is deep (below 25 feet).

Most encouraging was the presence of schools of shad. I did see several small shad schools which is important especially with the recent move to stock F1 bass. To grow to the larger sizes predicted, it will be necessary for them to have sufficient food and nutrition. The schools i saw were small but they were visible.

In the middle of all of the above, I did make another trip to Tennessee to fish for stripers. This trip was to introduce my brother-in-law and his son to striper fishing. The trip was a success as shown from some of the photos below.

As the Lake Norman water cools, I suspect that the bass and hybrid fishing will return to its pre-summer levels.