Today was the first day I have been to Offut. I found the parking at the boat launch was, indeed, small. We got the last two spots before one has to start looking for side of the road parking. The day was nice. This time I remembered my thermometer and at 11am the air temp was 58 degrees. The water temp was 50 degrees and at 2pm it was still 50 degrees. I thought that it might have gone up with the sun shining but it didn’t. I tried out my new downrigger to see if I like the positioning which was fine but I am all thumbs in trying to work it. The fishing was slow for us. A few bites while trolling and after seeing others catch fish still fishing I tried it using powerbait. I think still fishing can be boring...
I was awakened from my daydreaming by the sound of my reels drag singing. I pulled up on the rod and the fish pulled back I start to reel and the mouth of the fish comes up out of the water about 25 feet from the boat shakes it head and the hook comes flying back at me. That was it for fish.