ORR LAKE

Orr Lake August 7 2008 Arrived at the ramp at 6:00pm for some evening Smallmouth action before the storm that was brewing in the North hit the area. Started fishing a 3/8oz white spinnerbait with a red trailer hook and white grub through the reeds in 2-4 feet of water to entice some viscous Smallies. An hour goes by, no such luck, I then ventured out into a little deeper water roughly 3-7 feet, throwing a 1/8oz Green Tube along a weed bed, after fishing through 30 minutes of light to heavy rain, not a sniff. I finally gave up on the smallies after an hour and a half of cold windy rain and no hits. The rain and wind completely stopped at about 7:30pm, I moved into some thicker reeds to flip a black worm rigged Texas style, with 14lb braided line to try for some Largemouth. Within 10 minutes of fishing in the reeds, I felt a slight tick at the end of my line. I was not sure if it was a hit or just a tap against the reeds, so I set the hook anyway because you never know and bang! a 3lb decent Largemouth. After 20 more minutes, bang! another one... but I had a knot in my line that I was too lazy to re-tie and it snapped the line, I lost the fish and my rig.   I followed up with the same white spinnerbait as I was throwing earlier, I threw 2 casts and noticed on the 2nd retrieve that it caught my line that had snapped laying on top of the water. I managed my way to the line, picked it up and felt weight on the end, I hand reeled about 10 feet of line and there sat a 2lb Largemouth still hooked up. The thunder and lightning came not 2 minutes later, I was off the water as fast as that first thunder finished rolling...... Stay safe to fish another day. Brian Moore