John Murray's Blog

Decided last week to go to Temple Bar, and prefish Mead for a couple days. Driving in to Temple Bar is always exciting, seeing the lake, it feels like home. Lake was glass for the first couple hours, so I ran quite a bit to check water levels and grass beds, but fishing was tough. My plan was to sleep on the boat and cover as much water as possible. About 1pm, the wind started, 20-30mph out of the south. I had stopped at Echo Bay to get more ice, because it was about 107 deg!! Riding out into the Overton, it felt like a hair dryer. I decided to head back to Temple to fish out of the wind. I guess at age 45, my staying on the lake idea, wasn’t as cool as it was at age 25, so by 3pm, I loaded up and headed back to Phoenix! The sum total for the trip was about 8hrs in the truck, and 6hrs on the boat, and very few bites! I’ll head back up next week for a real practice after Icast. If any of you are attending Icast, I will be at the Lobina Lures booth, so stop by and say hi. After that we’ll have the US Open on Lake Mead. This will be the first Open back in July since 1996, I got 2nd that year and hope to improve on that this year. I’ll keep you posted…