08-03-2014, 01:32 AM
Hit Porcupine today. Had to give it another try before the Red Hour begins. Calm morning, got on the water about 8 (not as early as I'd hoped for, typical) and wasn't long before I hooked up and landed my first fish. Then I lost my second one, grr. BUT - after that did pretty well and getting the net under them, even had a couple unbotton just in time to float back into the net - SCHWING!
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Trolled around the first launch area, found a few, only lost two this time over the day, so I think my net-timing is improving a bit.
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Mostly a calm sunny day, got a bit windy at times. Quite a number of other anglers in the morning, then the floaters came in for the mid-day afternoon. I guess there's some that don't know Porcupine is a wakeless lake. I think they got yelled at enough, they got the message though.
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Few campers on the beach, jumpers on the cliffs, paddlers on the boards, a number of boats mulling around. Nice day out. Tried a few different dodgers and baits, but the pink-Epic's seemed to be the ticket. Was running deeper to follow the fish, 40-50 ft, some seemed right down hugging the bottom. Maybe they were browns. . . seemed pretty bunched though.
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Got into a pretty good school along the cliffs so worked through that for a while. Didn't hook up as many overall this time, and if it weren't for the two early releases, would have had a limit. Had a few hits, and rigger releases that didn't produce fish.
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Maybe they need a bigger sign with fresher paint. Used to be one by the fish-advisory sign, guess it got vandalized to oblivion. Figures.
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Nice day on the water.
[inline Fellows.jpg]
[inline "Two Down.jpg"]
Trolled around the first launch area, found a few, only lost two this time over the day, so I think my net-timing is improving a bit.
[inline "Hook em and Cook em.jpg"]
Mostly a calm sunny day, got a bit windy at times. Quite a number of other anglers in the morning, then the floaters came in for the mid-day afternoon. I guess there's some that don't know Porcupine is a wakeless lake. I think they got yelled at enough, they got the message though.
[inline "Are you serious.jpg"]
[inline "Beach Campers.jpg"]
[inline "Cliff Jumpers.jpg"]
[inline "Get up Stand up.jpg"]
Few campers on the beach, jumpers on the cliffs, paddlers on the boards, a number of boats mulling around. Nice day out. Tried a few different dodgers and baits, but the pink-Epic's seemed to be the ticket. Was running deeper to follow the fish, 40-50 ft, some seemed right down hugging the bottom. Maybe they were browns. . . seemed pretty bunched though.
[inline "Sonar Sounding.jpg"]
Got into a pretty good school along the cliffs so worked through that for a while. Didn't hook up as many overall this time, and if it weren't for the two early releases, would have had a limit. Had a few hits, and rigger releases that didn't produce fish.
[inline "Bag of Koke.jpg"]
Maybe they need a bigger sign with fresher paint. Used to be one by the fish-advisory sign, guess it got vandalized to oblivion. Figures.
[inline "Sign Sign Everywhere.jpg"]
Nice day on the water.
