Well well....last day of my vacation, nice this morning so I went to the lake, alone. Wore out some crappie, caught 2 catfish one was 7 1/2 lbs and the other 9.0. GF came over and we ate fish for dinner. Worst part was cleaning 30 crappie, then prepping them to cook.
Social distancing? Oh yeah. Saw ONE other boat on that end of the lake, didn't hear any off in the distance, no wake up til about 0930, then the one boat went by, then about 10 the wind started picking up. Radar said storm rolling in and in my little 15 flat bottom, I don't do storms, so I headed in. I got back to the ramp, docked the boat, and there was an older gentleman with what looked to be a 5 or 6 year old probably granddaughter, she was holding her hello kitty pink fishing rod. She had it cast out about 10' or so from the ramp and I asked them if they'd caught any, she said no before the man could get a word out. I asked what they were using for bait and he said they were using plastic worm (under a bobber). So I grabbed my cooler and walked over there and asked them if they needed some minnows, and the guy said that he'd never used minnows to fish with. She asked what minnows are, so I took one out and showed it to her. "That's a little fish not a minnow!"--I laughed, then explained that they are good for fish bait to catch bigger fish. I showed her how to hook a minnow and she cast it back out, I walked up to the truck and I hear all sorts of racket behind me, and here she is pulling with all her might, and a fish on the other end trying to get itself off the hook. By time I got the truck backed up, he's pulling out about a 5 lb bass! Thing was about as big as the little girl is. So he grabbed it by the lip and then gave it to her to hold it, she could hardly hold it as I snapped a picture & texted it to his cellphone.
2 people (well 3) is all I saw for the first half of the day, now that's what I call social distancing.
