Muddy water smackdown

Got to where I planned to fish to find things really muddy. Not up but muddy. Oh well this year it seems you fish in mud or you don't fish. It never rained on me but thunder rumbled ominously in the distance for much of the evening. And it was obviously raining somewhere as the stream rose four or five inches while I fished. Which seemed to really put the fish in the mood. Nothing on the topwater tonight but probably a dozen on the biggest curly shad fished on an underspin. The idea was to give the fish something they could find down there in the mud and it seemed to work. Fish were out of the swiftest current but right up against it. Caught another pure striper mixed in with the hybrids again tonight. If some of these guys survive a few years they are really going to make things interesting here in southern Ohio. Saw a deer feeding on the other side of the stream, had a beaver swim by ten feet away, caught some nice stripes, just an absolutely swell evening.