fishing by ourselves

Hi folks, I guess the wet weather scares anglers off and away from the water.  No one fishing on the lake I guided this morning with the boat.  Pretty peaceful and quiet.  Water was pretty calm and the surface temperature was in the high 60's.  Low light with heavy clouds and a couple of light brief showers.  We spin fished the surface for smallmouth bass with a jointed blue and silver floating rapala.  Worked rocky points and ledge rock areas.  The bass were holding off the deeper parts of the points and very well could have been suspended.  The first fish of the day was 16".  Caught 5 more smallmouth in the 6" to 12" range and then the big boy.  The top water bite slowed a bit by mid morning so we changed to a deep diving craw fish pattern crank bait and immediately hooked and landed a 19" smallmouth.  Really nice strong looking fish that was full of piss and vinegar.  Not a bad morning of smallie fishing.  Really important to be dialed in when fishing the surface as you just never know when a strike will occur.  More rain today has my range gauge in Stowe measuring close to an 1" over the last 24 hours.  Our streams are high and dirty again.  Will be fishing small streams this weekend as the Lamoille and Winooski will take a few days to calm down.  Remember to clean you gear