Good,Bad,Ugly

I will delete all my fishing this weekend off of Jim's thread in a minute. I got rained out friday, and finally made it to the lake about noon. The fish were tearing up shad in the back of a cove. I caught 3 keepers and two dinks on an xrap, along with hooking 2 or 3 shad on the lure. I missed a couple of bites on it as well, before breaking off in a fish's mouth. Well, I went back to the house and grabbed a ghost minnow pointer 78 and a soft plastic. My first cast with the pointer resulted in another shad. Cast #2 produced the fish yall saw, typical for the day. I posted it in "My first pic". Third cast, broke that lure off in a fish's mouth. I have GOT to stop setting the hook so hard that close to me! I lost 20+$ and 2 limit fish that way friday. :cussin: :dunno: So after I broke them off, I fished that plastic for a while. It moved too slow for the fish, but I still missed 2 on it. One was a short strike, and the other was just as much my fault as the two I broke off- I had the hook buried too deep, so the fish never got hooked. BTW, it is the best imitation I've ever seen of a mortally wounded baitfish.
Now for the ugly. I went today, got skunked. We've had a cold front blow in. I tried shallow, deep, power, finesse, and managed a total of 4 bites. One came on my new lure, two hit a doodle rig, and one hit a staysee so hard I thought I'd lose my rod. I never hooked the first one. :sad2: :-\ What a pathetic day on the water. I'm getting tired of writing "I got skunked" this year. Maybe I'll get on 'em next weekend. I haven't had this bad a start in 3-4 years. At least I got a decent day Friday.