10-19-2012, 10:01 PM
[cool][#0000ff]Forecast for today was good...weatherwise. But they have lied before. Not today. Delightful. Tossup for Deer Creek, Pineview or Jordanelle. Haven't fished Jordy for over two years...and the two years before that treated me badly. But I'm a forgiving kinda guy so I thought I would give it another shot at me. Glad I did.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Launched at the PWC ramp at 7 am. Calm and clear. Water temp 54.3. Air temp 30. Cool runnings. Started pitching jig and fly combo right off the ramp. Bang, bang...jump, jump...no fishie. Danged finless Freddies. A couple more bumps. Started looking for marks on the bottom as the water got deeper. Nada, zip, zilch. Naked bottom. Kinky, huh?[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I had worked a couple of hundred yards to the west of the ramp when I saw a white truck pull into the parking lot. &%$@! I forgot to put my park pass and mussel certificate in the window. Roostertail back to the ramp (yeah, right) and run all the way up the long ramp (yeah, right) to try to talk my way out of a ticket. False alarm. Just another tangler. Not the ranger. Unlocked my ride and put the appropriate certs in the window. Then I kinda crumpled and rolled all the way back down that long, long, long, long, long ramp. Did I mention it is a long ramp in the low water?[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Worked the area around the PWC launch pretty thoroughly from top to bottom...from shallow out ot about 45 feet. Saw a few middepth cruisers on sonar (trout?) but nothing near the bottom that could be construed as perchlike.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Put out the jig and fly combos and slow trolled over to my money spot at the old quarry. Got a couple of pokes on the way but no hookups. Didn't see any surface action at all.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]When I reached the quarry I was amazed at how low the tide was...like all the other lakes. Messed up my plans for where I was going to fish. So I put the electric motor on slow and started moving around and bottom bouncing with a couple of jigs while I watched TV. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Anybody who fishes that area knows there are a lot of submerged trees and brush on the bottom there. I watched for those as I dragged my lures downstairs. I know the guy who makes them and I get a good discount but it's a pain if you have to keep re-rigging. As I came to what looked like a tree, in about 30 feet of water, I reeled up my jigs a bit to clear the obstacle. But something grabbed one of the jigs and pulled down hard. First perch of the day. And that "tree" had morphed into a large cloud of fishy marks. Allllll righhhht.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I pitched over my orange marker buoy and began making vertical presentations. Bendo, bendo, bendo and bendo some more. There were a whole lotta perch down there and they were a feedin'. Almost as soon as my line stopped on the drop I would raise the rod tip and feel a fish. Didn't actually bring in any doubles today but there were long periods of time when every drop was an instant munch...one at a time.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]It may have been over two years since I last fished Jordanelle but I made up for lost time today...at least on perch. That fishing was faster than even any I have had at Starvation for the past few years. True, there were too many dinks...under 7 inches. But the average size was a respectable 8-9 inches. Quite a few ten inchers went in my basket and about 4 or 5 actual footlongs. Better than my last few trips to Starvy.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I could not begin to give a reasonable estimate of the total numbers of perch I caught today. Easily over 100. I kept about 30 to fillet and released several times that number. I went through over 2 boxes of crawlers...just tipping a small piece on the jig hooks.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Had a couple of good sized trout on that arranged an early release for good behavior. I kept one 14 incher that gulped a jig and was bleeding a bit. Oh yeah, I also caught one smallie about 8 inches but he didn't want to wait around to get his picture taken and my other rod was getting jiggy wit it.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Only a couple of other anglers out in boats today. Couldn't tell whether they were doing any good or not. One of the highlights of the day was when I was loading up to leave I was greeted by a tall shapely paddleboard person who was just heading out into the cool wind-chopped water. The poor girl must not have had enough money to buy clothes because she was not wearing enough to help keep her warm. I was wearing neoprene waders and glad of it. I hope we don't find her frozen into the ice in a couple of months.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Launched at the PWC ramp at 7 am. Calm and clear. Water temp 54.3. Air temp 30. Cool runnings. Started pitching jig and fly combo right off the ramp. Bang, bang...jump, jump...no fishie. Danged finless Freddies. A couple more bumps. Started looking for marks on the bottom as the water got deeper. Nada, zip, zilch. Naked bottom. Kinky, huh?[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I had worked a couple of hundred yards to the west of the ramp when I saw a white truck pull into the parking lot. &%$@! I forgot to put my park pass and mussel certificate in the window. Roostertail back to the ramp (yeah, right) and run all the way up the long ramp (yeah, right) to try to talk my way out of a ticket. False alarm. Just another tangler. Not the ranger. Unlocked my ride and put the appropriate certs in the window. Then I kinda crumpled and rolled all the way back down that long, long, long, long, long ramp. Did I mention it is a long ramp in the low water?[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Worked the area around the PWC launch pretty thoroughly from top to bottom...from shallow out ot about 45 feet. Saw a few middepth cruisers on sonar (trout?) but nothing near the bottom that could be construed as perchlike.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Put out the jig and fly combos and slow trolled over to my money spot at the old quarry. Got a couple of pokes on the way but no hookups. Didn't see any surface action at all.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]When I reached the quarry I was amazed at how low the tide was...like all the other lakes. Messed up my plans for where I was going to fish. So I put the electric motor on slow and started moving around and bottom bouncing with a couple of jigs while I watched TV. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Anybody who fishes that area knows there are a lot of submerged trees and brush on the bottom there. I watched for those as I dragged my lures downstairs. I know the guy who makes them and I get a good discount but it's a pain if you have to keep re-rigging. As I came to what looked like a tree, in about 30 feet of water, I reeled up my jigs a bit to clear the obstacle. But something grabbed one of the jigs and pulled down hard. First perch of the day. And that "tree" had morphed into a large cloud of fishy marks. Allllll righhhht.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I pitched over my orange marker buoy and began making vertical presentations. Bendo, bendo, bendo and bendo some more. There were a whole lotta perch down there and they were a feedin'. Almost as soon as my line stopped on the drop I would raise the rod tip and feel a fish. Didn't actually bring in any doubles today but there were long periods of time when every drop was an instant munch...one at a time.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]It may have been over two years since I last fished Jordanelle but I made up for lost time today...at least on perch. That fishing was faster than even any I have had at Starvation for the past few years. True, there were too many dinks...under 7 inches. But the average size was a respectable 8-9 inches. Quite a few ten inchers went in my basket and about 4 or 5 actual footlongs. Better than my last few trips to Starvy.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I could not begin to give a reasonable estimate of the total numbers of perch I caught today. Easily over 100. I kept about 30 to fillet and released several times that number. I went through over 2 boxes of crawlers...just tipping a small piece on the jig hooks.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Had a couple of good sized trout on that arranged an early release for good behavior. I kept one 14 incher that gulped a jig and was bleeding a bit. Oh yeah, I also caught one smallie about 8 inches but he didn't want to wait around to get his picture taken and my other rod was getting jiggy wit it.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Only a couple of other anglers out in boats today. Couldn't tell whether they were doing any good or not. One of the highlights of the day was when I was loading up to leave I was greeted by a tall shapely paddleboard person who was just heading out into the cool wind-chopped water. The poor girl must not have had enough money to buy clothes because she was not wearing enough to help keep her warm. I was wearing neoprene waders and glad of it. I hope we don't find her frozen into the ice in a couple of months.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]See...THE END.[/#0000ff]
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