Well, got down here early, so I fished the Skok for a few hours. Ended up turning into a few hours more, shoulda checked the tides before I went out. Waded out as the tide was coming, and started fishing. The tide came up quick, and soon I was fishing chest deep in the water. Met a few fellow WaLakers camped out at the farm, and hooked a total of three fish.

One lost in the piling, and two crackered. The second fish I hook ws during the high point of the tide. Turns out as I set the hook I came up off the bottom and drifted downstream a bit into neck dewep water. When you've got so much of you in water, it's dang near impossible to get any sort of leverage on the fish! I started bobbing downstream as the fish towed me around. So then my feet just left the bottom and I was treadfing water against this big fish, which must have looked ridiculous. So I tried to swim the fish into shore, and I gained absolutely no ground. Ended up have to disengage the spool and make a quick run to shore, at which point the fish must have loosened the hook because once I was solid on the bank he only lasted a few minutes before he shook the hook. It was ridiculous fun. I was wet wading, so no water in the waders, it's been super nice and you only get a few weeks out of the year that you can swim in the rivers, so I love it!

The river has plenty of fish once you find them, there are stretches where they just wern't holding yet, but they will move around a bunch so you never know where they will be. They are skittish lately, but there are still fresh fish coming in. Fish up high once the upper section opens, there are a lot of fish swimming around up there. Peach beads have been producing strikes, long leaders, as light as you can get away with, they're pretty skittish with all the lines in the water right now. I'll have fresh report tonight with all the details. See you on the water!

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