09-10-2018, 10:01 PM
[#0000ff]Pa and I had planned to hit Jordanelle today. But the warm temps have probably not been cool enough to get that lake to turn the seasonal corner. So we opted for Willard. I usually don't like to fish after a warm weekend...not because of anything fishy biology wise...but because of the heavy water traffic. Helps to give the fish a day or so to settle down. But the weather forecast is for windy the rest of the week so Monday it was.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We were launched at the north marina by 7 am. Lots of shad rolling and jumping off the ramp. No boils. Air temp 54 and water temp just under 72. Need to drop a few degrees for the fall fling.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We were both fishing fligs with perch meat on one rod and throwing some kind of plastic on another. Lee scored the first catfish about 7:30. I got started right after and managed to bring in 10-12 cats over the next 4 hours. Not fast fishing but good enough to keep up the interest...and stretch the string a bit.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Only three or four boats on the lake. Of course one had to be a ski boat that started making runs back and forth to Eagle beach and through the float tubers. A good hard freeze might get rid of the midges (terrible early), skeeters and skiers.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]About mid morning some grizzly old dude in a tin boat hollered that I was fishing in his hole. Before I could tell him what he could do with his hole he clued me in that he was BFTer r2u2...the guy who is usually in the banana yak. He moved on toward the north dike as I began moving back toward the boat channel.
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[#0000ff]Then I spotted another old BFT derelict...FatBiker. I hadn't given him advance warning that I was planning to fish the north marina today so he showed up. Lately he has a habit of avoiding meeting up with me on the water. Blames it on his girlfriend. Yeah, right. He admitted to having caught a few cats too. No shame. No class.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Lee and I hung it up early. I had kept about 5 fish for the fryer. Lee had a similar amount. We both agreed that we have had far worse days. Pleasant weather and a nice day...even with all the other BFT riffraff on the water.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The big downer of the day was the fish cleaning station. Either it is broken down again...or still from two weeks ago. Nasty.
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[#0000ff]We were launched at the north marina by 7 am. Lots of shad rolling and jumping off the ramp. No boils. Air temp 54 and water temp just under 72. Need to drop a few degrees for the fall fling.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We were both fishing fligs with perch meat on one rod and throwing some kind of plastic on another. Lee scored the first catfish about 7:30. I got started right after and managed to bring in 10-12 cats over the next 4 hours. Not fast fishing but good enough to keep up the interest...and stretch the string a bit.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Only three or four boats on the lake. Of course one had to be a ski boat that started making runs back and forth to Eagle beach and through the float tubers. A good hard freeze might get rid of the midges (terrible early), skeeters and skiers.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]About mid morning some grizzly old dude in a tin boat hollered that I was fishing in his hole. Before I could tell him what he could do with his hole he clued me in that he was BFTer r2u2...the guy who is usually in the banana yak. He moved on toward the north dike as I began moving back toward the boat channel.
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[#0000ff]Then I spotted another old BFT derelict...FatBiker. I hadn't given him advance warning that I was planning to fish the north marina today so he showed up. Lately he has a habit of avoiding meeting up with me on the water. Blames it on his girlfriend. Yeah, right. He admitted to having caught a few cats too. No shame. No class.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Lee and I hung it up early. I had kept about 5 fish for the fryer. Lee had a similar amount. We both agreed that we have had far worse days. Pleasant weather and a nice day...even with all the other BFT riffraff on the water.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The big downer of the day was the fish cleaning station. Either it is broken down again...or still from two weeks ago. Nasty.
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