May 6th report

so the largest full moon of the year was just that previous night,so you'd think it would mean the fishing was on fire right? hahahaha welllllll lets just say i came very close to being skunked for the first time in a very very long time! my personal experience is following full moons is one of the toughest days of fishing, i think they feed heavily at night and  by day are kinda lethargic from the nights feed. so if your gonna fish a full moon fish it at night. we launched at 730. we got to the ramp at 7 and much to my displeasure, i hate fishing on sundays( club days) there was apparently a tournament going on. there were 6-8 boats in front of us and its a small lot! they were polite and waved my into the line, i offered to wait but they insisted i launch  , so we did. clear skies no rain whatsoever. air temp was 74 and warmed up into the upper 80s by noon. water temp was 74 at launch and warmed to 78-79 by afternoon. ohh yes its summertime now! wind was 5-10 mph at launch and got quite blustery by noon with gusts making boat control impossible they were in the 20 -25 mph range with higher gusts.water clarity had faltered a bit and was 3-4 ft pretty much lake wide. moon phase was well full hahaha with the lunar table at 63 points out of 100. the water height at the dam was at 77.7 ft and had risen a foot in the last 24 hours. barometer was at 30.13 and rising. we decided to avoid the crowd and ran right up to he grassbeds in south fork. i was throwing a rage tail frog and my son his mans floating agitator buzz bait( his fav lure) we pounded the grass beds hard to no avail. worked the rocky bluffs in between them with a spinnerbait and crankbait. all the way to my lucky ironwoods and didn't get anything there either. we followed the grass beds up all the way to the old bridge and not a single bite. several kayakers and a couple of boats went by. apparently this wahiawa bass club was doing a trolling only tournament. so now i guess there are 3 clubs? hawaii fresh water fishing association, northshore bass club, and now the wahiawa bass club? usually its the 3rd and 4th sundays of the month that are tournament days but noow with another club i guess its the 1st ,3rd and 4th? sundays? ahhhh screw it ill stick to saturdays hahaha. we decided to run down to retirement bluffs but worms, jigs, crank baits all to no avail. all the while having boats run by trolling. made the run down to the main basin but there seemed to be boats everywhere. we fished several deep sots that were reading shad balls and bass or tucs underneath on the graph but no matter what we tried we got nothing. most of the shore spotts were really getting worked over between the trollers who were right up against the banks as they went , to the 6 or 7 other boats that were out. it was a crowded day for our little lake.still plenty of room to share though. we fed the geese and my son was done, no action he was bored and it was hot. so we headed to get him in. then i headed back out determined not to get skunked! i started fishing just after the bridge into wahiawa and worked my way along both sides throwing a texas rigged worm and a crankbait all the way down at any kind of lay down or structure i could find. no luck. moved down onto robbies lucky spot and worked that whole bank till it leveled out near the retirement home with no luck. i then ran down to the main basin and the tournament that was going on  was a trolling tournament , it was terribly annoying with 7 boats running up and down up and down every where i went. i pretty much dropped the idea of any fishing in the main basin. ran up into kinkaids and fished a few points pretty hard . nothing, tried morgans and nothing. used worms , jig and a spinnerbait. ran down the bluff bank and finally got one on a crankbait. it was 2pm and my first fish, a cookie cutter 1.4 lb 14 in bass. continued down the bank but only managed to haul water the rest of the way. worked down the opposite bank and got another on the same crankbait. but that was to be it along that bank and again a small cookie cutter bass in the same range. did a lot of run and gun but by 4 pm i was tired and there just wasn't any game join on i had no pattern and the fish just went appearing. the tourney had wrapped up so i made a last ditch effort along kemoo island and condo cliffs with a shaky head worm. i was trying a new technique i had read about , i will go into detail on that a bit later in another post but it worked great and i pulled 3 skinny largemouths out from along the cliffs . all small in the 1.5 lb range and all in kinda skinny. i was glad to have em after the tough day. managed 5 for the day and by 5 pm i was well over done! headed in and was glad to have caught what i did. learned a few things though and that was well worth the effort. this post is so very late, blogging is tough to keep up with when you are so busy. wish i had more time to fish and post , no wonder so many blogs have such long  times in between. i have a ton of topics to talk about and so little time to sit and write thoughts out. this month almost went by with none!! i hope i can get a few down early next month and maybe a trip or two in as well!!