Spring Fishing Trip Day 1 Recap

Here's a recap of what's happened so far.

1. On the way here, going through Clarksburg, a pickup truck in front of me hit one of those bridge joints and knocked a clump of mud off his truck, it came bouncing towards me and hit my windshield and it happened to have a rock in it so now I have a quarter sized crack.

2. Today, cold weather, rain, less than perfect conditions. We started out at O'Brien Lake and got nothing. I found out quickly that both of my Pinnacle baitcast reels were broken. Baitcast reels are not supposed to "rewind". Something was up with the anti-reverse. We gave up on O'Brien around 9:15 and headed out for Elk Fork Lake. But first I wanted to stop at Wal-Mart and exchange my defective reels for working ones. They did with no problem. AWESOME, that was $116 in gear. WV DNR was at Elk Fork shocking the lake. There were fish floating everywhere their boat was going. We caught up the "survey boat" and asked them what they were doing and they said that they were collecting Largemouth bass between 14 and 15 inches for the hatchery. They collected 40 and were done. It was a little weird to see fish belly up but they recovered after a while.
I caught the first two fish and Brian was getting worried but I told him to relax because he always crushes me. For those of you on Facebook that call yourself my "friend" and were commenting on the size...I still love you. But understand, the conditions today were horrible. Raingear was worn all day long but we still were able to bring in 11 fish total. So even though they wern't record breakers, they were catches on a day that most wouldn't even attempted.
Another tragedy of the day was that I lost my swiss army knife with USB flash drive that my wife gave to me for Christmas a couple of years ago. I stuck it in my coat pocket which I didn't realize had a hole in it and while we were watching DNR shock the fish, I stood up (because my back was killing me) next thing I heard was a "plop". Brian said "Dude, something metal just fell out of your pocket and went into the water." Oh well. I hope the fish enjoy pictures of Casting Crowns in concert.

So tomorrow the skys are supposed to be clearer, the temp warmer and tomorrow is the start of four straight days of high point "lunar activity" days for fishing. I still hope to break last year's record. Wrapping this up for now cause, 4:45 was the earliest start I've had in a while and I'm tired.