Reservation Number : 41965
Property Name : The Bluffs of Sandy Shores
Reservation Date : 02/15/2025 All Day -
Total Fish/Sizes : 0
Lures Used : Flukes, Cranks, Chatterbaits, Senkos.

Well, I learned a very hard lesson this past Saturday.  My wife and I were going to one of my favortie places, The Bluffs.  I checked the weather the day before and the morning of, it showed light mist and a lower chance of rain (30% or less) for the morning and clear in the afternoon.  Now, that was me checking my local weather, in Rockwall, because to my thinking at the time the Bluffs “are just in the next town over.”  Yeah, you’ve guessed it.  The weather in the “next town over” was differnet than home.  We got there late, after putting the dogs in daycare.  It was a little before 10am.  It wasn’t misting, it was raining.  We loaded up the club boat and headed out.  By 10:30am the wind was coming up and it was really raining and getting cold.  We had rain jackets (for the mist) but I left the bibbs at home. My wife quit fishing then.  I took her back to the launch ramp and being a pretty good sport she agreed to sit in the car until the weather “improved.”  You know the “clearing” we’d seen on the weather app.  Well, it didn’t clear.  It poured.  I was completely soaked through my jeans and shoes, fighting the wind with my trolling motor, after an hour and a half or so, I notice my wife standing outside the car talking to someone, who’d driven up in a truck.  That ended up being the owner, checking in to see who was hard-core enough or dumb enough to be out there in the rain while his wife sat in the car.  I only had one bite in the 2+ hours I put out there, and I had the fish on right up to the boat, a good-sized Bass, probably around 5lbs., but it shook off.  I took that as my cue to quit and headed in.  The moral to this story, check the weather for exactly where you’re going.  The onwer told my wife the weather there had been a 70% chance of rain for the day.  Had we seen that, I would’ve never dragged my wife out there.