Porcupine report 11/10/06

[wiperhunter2]

Wiperslayer and I hit the pig today and it was one of those great days that aren't soon forgotten. The ground was frozen and we had no problems launching my boat. The water level had dropped several feet since our last trip there in early August. We were hoping for a repeat of our last trip when we did good for the kokanee. There wasn't a cloud in the sky until noon and the water was glass calm but it was cold when we arrived and I couldn't get my kicker motor to start. We moved around for a while with the big motor trying to locate the big numbers of fish we were marking on our last trip there. We started using the electric trolling motor and finally found some active fish, we tried jigging over them without any luck but slow trolling was the ticket. We couldn't buy a bite from the kokanee but the brown catching was hot. Between the browns and the occasional cutbow we watched elk and deer feeding on the hillside, even saw a bald eagle swoop down to pick up a fish off the surface. We finally got the kicker running and ran it for the rest of the day without a problem picking up 13 browns up to 19 inches and three cutbows up to 20 inches. Great day on the water until we tried to retrieve the boat and found all the frozen mud had melted. My truck started sliding into the lake and I had to cut the strap to the winch and push the boat back into the lake because there was a bind on the winch. We finally got the boat on at a different location and were able to pull the boat out with mud flying every where. I was still a great day on the lake, can wait until the pig freezes. WH2
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