well its like i said, it happens every year and i knew it was just a matter of time. Kinda like sticker shock......ya know its gonna be expensive before ya get to the store, but ya still feel a little better complaining about it before ya buy it. Lol.
Im gonna try more night fishing this year to help offset my weekend time on the water.
its hard to just fish a different area....this spot always produces my biggest crappies mid day oddly enough. Slow early morning bite but picks up as temp rises.

absolutley no offense to anyone but I am blessed in that I get to fish more that most, by a longshot. Almost always I leave when I see an issue coming. I did have an issue recently, at about 4 am. I am probably only boat on lake. I could see a boat launch and and someone had put in about 3:45. they came straight to where I was, stopped their big motor where I was casting to and trolled up to about 20 feet from my boat fisihing all around me. You could say we had words. Pitch dark, have not a seen or heard a boat since midnight and he is going to pull up next to me? he finally told me he about tired of hearing me, not a big deal, he found out I was just getting started. I don't mind people fishing same spot but people need to stay at least out of casting distance, especially at night. I fished right next to a guy wading the other morning, very nice, we talked, caught fish and never had an issue.