05-01-2006, 10:18 PM
[cool][#0000ff]Had two reasons to go to Lincoln Beach this morning...besides just fishing. I wanted to "prefish" the area before Wednesday's media flotilla. I also agreed to assist Ocean in getting his new pontoon properly wetted and fishified.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I was just about ready to launch when Ocean rolled up around 7 AM. He unloaded a jigsaw puzzle that looked like it might go together to form a pontoon. Still in plastic bags. I lent some immoral support to get the process started. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I also downloaded a set of booties, a set of fins, a fish net, a fish basket, one of my walkie talkies, a PFD and a bag of minnows. All but the minnows were TubeBabe's. Lucky Ocean, he had some mojo workin' for him. All the fish thought it was TubeBabe fishing, and she is down in Arizona.[/#0000ff]
[#0000ff]As I kicked out away from shore, on the mirror smooth morning lake surface, I saw bajillions of carpkind clumping together in groups all over the lake. I gotta admit I "force fed" a few of them to get the kinks out of my rod and rod arm. A quick gillectomy and a release unharmed.[/#0000ff]
[#0000ff]Ocean finally got afloat and he also decided to play with the Lincoln Beach barracudas. An 8# edition gave him a pretty good workout on his 6# line. Man, what a way to christen a new toon. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]It wasn't long, however, until he whooped into the walkie talkie that he was bendo on something big and fiesty...a nice channel cat. That was better. I told him he was allowed to keep it.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]While Ocean stayed close to the launch area and fished a protected and shallow warm cove, I searched a lot of other water, from deep to shallow, trying to find an area that would be good for our group onslaught on Wednesday. I had a few pop and drop hits but nothing permanent until almost 11 AM.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The water temp at launch was right at 59. Once the sun came out and chased the carp deeper, the water began quickly warming. It was 62 by noon and over 65 when we got off the water about 1.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I managed my usual 3# dinner kitty. Ocean scored another couple of chunky channels in the 5 to 6 pound range. As he held the basket of three up for his picture I was afraid I might have to take him to the hospital to have that grin surgically removed from his kisser. Boy is he lucky he was using all that stuff from TubeBabe.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We had been watching some carp frolic in the shallows, and I had brought my bow for just such a possibility. After I loaded up my tube I grabbed the bow and worked into position at the end of the activity. I missed the first shot (of course), but pinned three carp in a row after that...two out of three were head shots.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I was just getting excited about the prospects of ventilating a few more carp when two honyocks came charging up and ran right out into the middle of the fish. The carp scattered and headed out of the cove. I did not get another shot. One of the guys informed me that this was his first year shooting carp with a bow. He didn't need to tell me that.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Going out on a limb here. I am predicting that the spawn is on. Maybe one day of cooling but the rest of the week should see carp swarming wherever there are shallows that warm quickly in the sunshine.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I was just about ready to launch when Ocean rolled up around 7 AM. He unloaded a jigsaw puzzle that looked like it might go together to form a pontoon. Still in plastic bags. I lent some immoral support to get the process started. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I also downloaded a set of booties, a set of fins, a fish net, a fish basket, one of my walkie talkies, a PFD and a bag of minnows. All but the minnows were TubeBabe's. Lucky Ocean, he had some mojo workin' for him. All the fish thought it was TubeBabe fishing, and she is down in Arizona.[/#0000ff]
[#0000ff]As I kicked out away from shore, on the mirror smooth morning lake surface, I saw bajillions of carpkind clumping together in groups all over the lake. I gotta admit I "force fed" a few of them to get the kinks out of my rod and rod arm. A quick gillectomy and a release unharmed.[/#0000ff]
[#0000ff]Ocean finally got afloat and he also decided to play with the Lincoln Beach barracudas. An 8# edition gave him a pretty good workout on his 6# line. Man, what a way to christen a new toon. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]It wasn't long, however, until he whooped into the walkie talkie that he was bendo on something big and fiesty...a nice channel cat. That was better. I told him he was allowed to keep it.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]While Ocean stayed close to the launch area and fished a protected and shallow warm cove, I searched a lot of other water, from deep to shallow, trying to find an area that would be good for our group onslaught on Wednesday. I had a few pop and drop hits but nothing permanent until almost 11 AM.[/#0000ff]
[#0000ff][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff]The water temp at launch was right at 59. Once the sun came out and chased the carp deeper, the water began quickly warming. It was 62 by noon and over 65 when we got off the water about 1.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I managed my usual 3# dinner kitty. Ocean scored another couple of chunky channels in the 5 to 6 pound range. As he held the basket of three up for his picture I was afraid I might have to take him to the hospital to have that grin surgically removed from his kisser. Boy is he lucky he was using all that stuff from TubeBabe.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We had been watching some carp frolic in the shallows, and I had brought my bow for just such a possibility. After I loaded up my tube I grabbed the bow and worked into position at the end of the activity. I missed the first shot (of course), but pinned three carp in a row after that...two out of three were head shots.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I was just getting excited about the prospects of ventilating a few more carp when two honyocks came charging up and ran right out into the middle of the fish. The carp scattered and headed out of the cove. I did not get another shot. One of the guys informed me that this was his first year shooting carp with a bow. He didn't need to tell me that.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Going out on a limb here. I am predicting that the spawn is on. Maybe one day of cooling but the rest of the week should see carp swarming wherever there are shallows that warm quickly in the sunshine.[/#0000ff]
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