08-01-2004, 05:52 AM
Took the family up for some camping and fishing fun. The bottom line is the fishing was red hot.
I was fishing from a tube and tried just about everything and it all caught fish but I had the best luck fishing shallow areas in the mornings with a black bodied and gold bladed Panther Martin but best of all was drifting with the wind in the afternoon trailing a small tube jig tipped with a piece of worm. I was out with my 6 year old daughter today and I lost track of how many doubles we had and I actually ran out of worms even though I was only using about an inch long piece at a time. Very fun for the kids. At one point she actually said, "Dad will you reel my fish in for me? I need a break."
Most of the fish were 8-12" but we caught a few larger up to 16". Most of our fish were caught near the surface regardless of water depth although there were fish deeper.
FM
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I was fishing from a tube and tried just about everything and it all caught fish but I had the best luck fishing shallow areas in the mornings with a black bodied and gold bladed Panther Martin but best of all was drifting with the wind in the afternoon trailing a small tube jig tipped with a piece of worm. I was out with my 6 year old daughter today and I lost track of how many doubles we had and I actually ran out of worms even though I was only using about an inch long piece at a time. Very fun for the kids. At one point she actually said, "Dad will you reel my fish in for me? I need a break."
Most of the fish were 8-12" but we caught a few larger up to 16". Most of our fish were caught near the surface regardless of water depth although there were fish deeper.
FM
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