Lake Perris 10/12

I got out on the lake this morning. I launched near the boat ramp while the rangers were holding up the boats.

Water Temp: 71 degrees
Air Temp: 50 to 75
Time In: 7:00 AM
Time Out: 12:35 AM
Reaction Bait 15#:   Various Swim Jigs / White Spinner Bait
Reaction Bait 10# : Big Hammer 3 1/2 / underspins/ tube baits
Drop Shot 6#: Various
Split Shot 6#: Weightless Texas

It was completely fogged in with a fog warning. I figured I could slide by while they were making the boats wait. The ranger caught me at the waters edge, inspected my tube for quagga muscle, told me I could fish near shore but not to go out further until the fog warning was over. The water is cooler now and the weeds are coming apart. My 8 pound test was cutting it up. I through top waters for nothing. I worked jigs and worms through the weeds chasing and searching. The fog turned to overcast and I still had nothing. The sun started peaking through around noon and I thought I would go home with the dreaded skunk and pieces of weeds all over my tube. I decided  to toss the spinnerbait on the way back and finally found my one and only fish.

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And a decent one at that! congrats on the skunk buster Jer!

Persistence paid off. Way to stick with it J. Nice chunk.

Very nice lucky you stuck with it 

Thanks boys it definitely turned into a quest.
I thought the fog would make the day easy and was surprised on no top water action.
Live and learn.

Nice catch, good job sticking it out.

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Nice to see you beat the skunk with a good one Jerdon!

CPT Kirk, david886720, thanks.
You know how it is, 5 hours of nothing and then BAM, spinner bait saves the day.