09-14-2019, 12:01 AM
[#0000ff]fish_fanatic and I have been trying to line up our schedules to get together on Starvation. Finally did it...but on Friday the 13th and a full moon. But harkening back to my stone age math classes I seemed to remember that two negatives equal a positive. Right? Not always.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We were tube and toon on the water about 7 am. Light breeze. Air temp 45 and water temp 65. Everything was ideal. But somebody forgot to invite the fish. Thought my sonar was busto when I couldn't see anything but a flat empty bottom in all my usual productive spots.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Randy was fishless but had marked a few. Then I broke the ice with the first fish...a 9" perch on a flig and minnow. Now the games could begin. NOT. It was sometime later that Randy scored his first...a widdle wallie. A short time later he got one slightly bigger...and then a perch. And that was his total at the end of a long morning.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I scratched out a another perch...about 10". Then a long spell of casting and bottom bouncing practice over multiple bottoms and depths. I did see more fish than I caught. Finally found an area that showed a few fishy marks and had a nice wally thump. Brought a mid-teen incher walleye toward the net...but he declined my offer to go home with me for dinner and gave me back my jig. Rude.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]A follow-up cast to the same area got slammed. And after a feisty fight I put the net under a 16" rainbow. Unanticipated bonus. Thought that would be my final fling at fishydom, but did stick a "seegar" sized wallette on the way back to the launch area.
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[#0000ff]Drive time there and back...4 plus hours. Fishing time...5 hours. 4 fish netted...3 species. Not my finest day of fishing...especially on a lake from which I have taken more than 50 walleyes in a day on several occasions. Heck, I'm married. I coulda got more frustration and abuse much closer to home without the early get up and the long drive.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Still...a purty day with good company. See ya at Willard next month Randy. Go ahead and chime in if you have some good stuff to add...or need to correct my senile observations.
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[#0000ff]We were tube and toon on the water about 7 am. Light breeze. Air temp 45 and water temp 65. Everything was ideal. But somebody forgot to invite the fish. Thought my sonar was busto when I couldn't see anything but a flat empty bottom in all my usual productive spots.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Randy was fishless but had marked a few. Then I broke the ice with the first fish...a 9" perch on a flig and minnow. Now the games could begin. NOT. It was sometime later that Randy scored his first...a widdle wallie. A short time later he got one slightly bigger...and then a perch. And that was his total at the end of a long morning.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I scratched out a another perch...about 10". Then a long spell of casting and bottom bouncing practice over multiple bottoms and depths. I did see more fish than I caught. Finally found an area that showed a few fishy marks and had a nice wally thump. Brought a mid-teen incher walleye toward the net...but he declined my offer to go home with me for dinner and gave me back my jig. Rude.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]A follow-up cast to the same area got slammed. And after a feisty fight I put the net under a 16" rainbow. Unanticipated bonus. Thought that would be my final fling at fishydom, but did stick a "seegar" sized wallette on the way back to the launch area.
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[#0000ff]Drive time there and back...4 plus hours. Fishing time...5 hours. 4 fish netted...3 species. Not my finest day of fishing...especially on a lake from which I have taken more than 50 walleyes in a day on several occasions. Heck, I'm married. I coulda got more frustration and abuse much closer to home without the early get up and the long drive.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Still...a purty day with good company. See ya at Willard next month Randy. Go ahead and chime in if you have some good stuff to add...or need to correct my senile observations.
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