The forecast didn't look good early this morning. In fact it looked really bad. Eighty percent chance of rain, including thunderstorms, hail, strong winds... and the radar just to the west was seriously green, with yellow and red highlights. It was calm and rain-free early, though, so we scrambled to the lake and fished close to the harbor, figuring we might get in a few hours before the bottom fell out.Somehow the rain never came. The whole system passed just to the south, and the wind stayed so low that a man could have paddled a canoe to Canada. Making thing even better, Erie's chunky smallies were chomping in the shadows of the Buffalo skyline, so there was no need to go anywhere.
I fished today with Capt. Tim Braun, a veteran Erie smallmouth guide, and with Lawrence Taylor of YUM Bait Company. We caught almost all our fish on Mardi Gras colored YUM Tubes.
Trout tomorrow.
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