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Well I guess if I wanted company I should have logged on and checked to see who was going and who chickened out [cool]
Got to Linclon around 4:30 and was surprised that no one was there. Well there was this guy who was tryin to get his boat out of the water. They ended up hooking on to it with another vehicle and pulling it on to the trailer.
Planning on hitting it on Sunday if any of you are interested. A couple of nice days should do wonders for the water conditions.
Light breeze at launch but that was not to last. Water was like I had posted earlier ..... cloudy, but now contained the UL green mixed into the chocolate.
Right after launch the wind picked up from the north east. So rather than fight the wind back I kicked around the channel and headed north a bit to deeper waters. TD you know the area we fished last fall. Water temps was equal to a hot tub. When I first launched it was 103 on the screen!!
Then i realized that the transdicer had been sitting in the back of my truck all day. After about ten minutes it cooled down to just over 85 degrees.
One lone water skier and not another soul on this part of the lake. I have to say I really enjoyed that. My only company for the 2 hours I was there was this pelican who seemed to follow me where ever I went. Or maybe I was invading his turff. But he kept a respectful distance the whole time. Had better manners than the lone boater did.
Well dragged minnows, carp meat, and sucker. Nothing not even a pop and drop. Did however find one whitie that wanted to play (not the biggest fish I ever caught). By 6:30 the wind had blown me back to the channel. So i kicked up it along the wind protected north side. I was hoping for a kitty or wo in this area. Nope! But that is where I picked up the whitie.
Then the lone boater came in and gently bumped me with his craft. Like he couldn't keep it in the middle of the channel. After a few exchanges of verbal unpleasentries (is that even a word) I called the local long arm. Loaded my stuff back in the truck n waited. They never showed and the nice gentle loaded up his boat and left.
As I look back o it I think he was just having control problems. The wind kept blowing and he did not know how to compensate for it. No excuse, it could have been worse than just a little bump. But it was his attitude that got me going. I had to reminf myself that I'm getting old and there are better ways to deal with these matters. I did how ever pass along his hull number (side reg numbers) to the local sheriff when I got home.
Other than that it was a great trip tp Linclon. Quite and peaceful. I have never had the place to myself before. It was sweet!! The catching could have been better. The fishing was great, relaing what a nice way to end your day. Took a few pics TD will really like the last one LOL.
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Marty, if I had known you were still going I would have joined you. Lincoln Beach is close to Orem.
Good report. I appreciated the pictures as well as the report. You are one dedicated fishing dude!
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Thanks LloydE it is also close to work. I usually need a break by the end of the week. So any excuse works for me. I'll drop ya a Pm the next time I go.
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[cool][#0000ff]Hey Marty, you really need to fire up that wood burning computer once in awhile and check in on the board. When the forecast was for north winds, that was enough for me. Been there, done that, don't like it much.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I suspect that you ACTUALLY had a great time and caught lots of fish. But, being the nice guy you are, you did not want to put up a post that would make me feel bad. Soooooo...you dug up some past pics of one of "THOSE" trips we have made together down there and showed how the sloppy weather would have looked if I had actually made it down.[/#0000ff]
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Well tlspyder and I must have arrived just after you left. We planned on being there at 6:00, but there was a bad accident on the freeway. That slowed us down quite a bit. Water was pretty choppy so we tried pitching from the shore for awhile. But I went there to tube not shore fish. So I put in and fished the channel. Picked up one small whitie. Then we kicked out to the south of the ramp. Wind died down around 9:00 or so. Had a beautiful moon to show us some light. We both had a lot of pickups, but couldn't land anything. Had one large whitie come in on one of my lines. Other then that no more fish from the tube.
I happen to have a bruised tail bone right now. So at midnight I had to get out of the tube. Fished from shore while waiting for Richard to kick off the water. When I pulled in my lines to go home, I had a mud cat on. My first mud cat ever[unsure].
Slow fishing, but always a good time in a tube!
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Bruised tail bone... OUCH.
Sorry the catching wasn't any better, but I'll bet the moon was awesome. I saw it at 3:30 this morning on the way to work, and it was huge and copper colored. [cool]
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Sorry i missed ya I really should have checked in with the board. But sometimes it is pushed to the back of the list of things to do.
Hey I know what accident your talking about. I was north bound and it messed with that traffic also. Though it was way inot the clearing stage when I went by. Tow trucks had all but one on the hook.
After the wind died down how far south did ya go? Last weekend I had to kick all the way to the far reeds for some action with the kitties. The whiteies were playful all through the middle.
But it sounds like you had a good time also. Nice to be the only fishermen on the water aint it.
Sorry to hear about the tail bone. Have done that and it's no fun at all. Hope it recovers soon, mine took for ever to heal up. I guess I spend to much time on my back side LOL.
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You crack me up Pat. I wish the fishing would have been better. YOU KNOW I would have posted it up last night!! Hey I see I didn't post that monster white I caught. Maybe over on the throphy boad now LOL.
I knew about the north by northeast winds. But my forecast showed them at 5 to 10. 5 being an easy kick and hold breeze. 10 will make ya work a bit and loose the fine finese part of the game. They did not mention it was going to BLOW like the dickens. I'll bet it was closer to 20 mph when I got off. Way to east a ride back to the channel.
As far as having a great time .... i did. But then any time spent fishing is always great. The only thing to make it better is some good company.
Maybe on the next trip you old guys will feel more like getting your feet wet. LOL I think I'll leave some bottles of Geritol around the launch site as bait to lure ya all in.
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[cool][#0000ff]Better ease up on the "old folks jokes"...if you wanna remain on my tackle testers team.[/#0000ff]
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Well Marty you did better than Luke and I did. We decided since we had the passes in hand we would run up to Deer creek and take advantage of the ramp closure. Well forget that being peacefull. The ramp is closed yes, but that just means every one was launching off of the beech on the left hand side. I will post a full review with pics as soon as I take them off my camera.
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You know me just a brute for punishment. Besides it was so peacful there who needed fish to interupt the tranquility?!
A minds image of those carp has be cracking up. Now put a few friendly faces on them.
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Ya, I would of gone but there didnt seem to be any takers and since I live in Layton I didnt want to make the drive for nothing. I ended up spending the afternoon at willard and had a decent time there caught 4 kitties none real big the biggest was about 2 and a half pounds but still a fun day. The sign there at the south marina says closed but that didnt stop people from launching boats. Shallowest spot I marked in the channel heading out was 4.5 feet so not too bad.
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according to office 2000 it is spelled like this [center]"[black][size 3]un-pleasantries"[/size][/black][/center]
I had to copy and paist it in to word to see for my self, I have heard it numorus times and ya got me wondering.
I have to say you held your composure well, Your a better man than me. In my younger days I let a beer bottle fly and cracked the hull of a boat, when he went and got the law and came back, the officer saw me sitting in an eight foot john boat with oars and five bottles he asked me what happened, and I told him that the gentle went by me half dozen times trying to dunk the clown before I let the bottle fly, he asked me how the fishing was and I pulled up my stringer to show off my gills and crappie, he truned around and went to the boat with the cracked hull and put the driver in the back of his boat and hooked on a toe rope and hauled in every body.
the fact that I was able to hit the boat with a bottle was enough evidence that the motor boat was indeed comming with in the leagle limites set by the state of michigan. as to what ever happened to them I dont know, never even heard rumor of it. I didnt realy care, I just wanted him to leave me alone so I could get on with my fishing.
Ya gotta love nature, I looked at the pics and was impressed that you had a pellican in utah, seagulls have migrated inland in the last 50 years following the human trash runs, "barges carring trash out to the ocean to dump."
I had no idea that pelicans have came in that far. thanks for the photos, that is some gorgeous country...
and ya, I realy need to use word check on my own stuff. but I am getting lazy or in a bit of a hurry any more these days...
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Sorry we missed ya road. If we would have been looking North instead of at the reeds to the South might have caught you riding the breakers in. I'm guessing your right that the wind was closer to 20 then it was to 10 until the sun went down and then it just all but shut off.
Stupid me didn't change my line from last time and the fish picked up right where the left off last time snapping the line. Using some larger lighted bobbers I didn't even get a chance to adjust the drag. They just snaped the line almost instantly. Couldn't buy a bite on the other pole.
Funny side note on the first bite of the nite. The fish pulled the bobber under and then let go. Thought it must have been a white bass and let it go at that. About five minutes later my pole gets a bite but my bobbers don't move. Next thing I know my tube is spinning around and heading away from my bobbers. Grab my pole and snap. Turns out the bobber had popped off the line and the fish had been on the whole time.
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[cool][#0000ff]I'm ashamed of you. I have said it a million times...maybe a few more. FISH DO NOT BREAK LINES...FISHERMEN DO.[/#0000ff]
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Me too I would have stayed longer had someone showed up LOL. But the wind certainly chased me off the water. Glad to hear it settled down. I knew it would and kept hoping while I was there that it would.
Now the line breaking delema. Been there done that. Recently at that. Change that line, it's the cheapest thing ya can do. I sat sown and pulled up some records and found the line on my bait caster was nearly 4 years old. Hell no wonder it kept breaking.
Then there is my knot tieing skill, or should I say the lack there of. Every once in a while I get lazy (or in a hurray) when tieing knots. When that happens the knot ALWAYS fails. It either comes undone or breaks the line. Hard to feel sorry for myself when I am the reason for the loss. Practice some knots you like to use. Then practice them some more. I just have a couple that I use regularly (depends on line type and what I'm fishing for). But when I watch what I'm doing they never fail. Get a knot tieing card/book cheap investment. Or go fishing with TD more and he will be glad to share his knots with you. He never looses a fish from a bad knot or old line. Some of his habits will rub off on ya.
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Thanks DC for the spell and word check.
Sometimes discretion is the better part of valor as they saying goes. He had a boat full of people mostly younger (late 20s early 30s) all with a few in them. I choose the former vs the latter.
At any rate the local sheriff has hull ID number. If they do nothing but call him over it I'll be happy. He'll know what a jerk he was. Maybe when he sobers up he'll realize how dumb that stunt was.
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Hey Matt I pretty much stay off Deer Creek this time of year ..... ramp or no ramp. If ya want it peacful you have to get there before sunrise or near sunset.
Coming home from UL you could have walked on the boats by the damn. Still a loy of day traffic on the water. It will start slowing down in the next month. As soon as school starts weekday fishing can get good again. There will be next to no lake traffic. having said that there will the the regular fishers who hit the lake 2/3 times a week. But they are respectful along with being full of information if your nice to them LOL.
Sorry ya didn't have a banner day at DC but fall is comming and it gets ohhhhh so goooood!!
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hate when I do that, but with me it more the bobber goes flying behind me and my line goes forward. I loose a lot of bells too, I put a bell on the end of my rod out of my reach and when I go to set my hook, well, there goes my bells....[laugh]
To be honest, I dont know how I have missed beaning some one on the head all these years....[shocked]
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I mellowed out in my old age as well, cant find my beer in a bottle any more... LOL...
and for the most part I dont go out on the weekends any more unless I am fishing with my buddies. I have all week off and realy I am going out looking for peace and quiet and a couple fish dinners.... and Nothing more....
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