05-21-2013, 08:55 PM
[#0000FF]BFTer "road" and I found that the road is still closed at Lindon. I made it okay but he was a bit late for our meetup because I had heard that the closure would be over by May 1. It ain't and I didn't think to warn him.
First time we have fished together in over two years. His fault. If he hadn't rolled his truck in Idaho a couple of years ago...and if he had mended faster...oh well. It was good to "hook up" again.
Air temp at 6am was 45 and water temp 59. It has cooled down with the past few days cold snap but should jump back up again by the weekend.
I launched before road got there and promptly dinged a couple of crappie-ettes. Right next to shore inside the harbor. Then a couple of bluegills that were as big as the crappies. Third species was small white bass. The ardently desired walleyes failed to show at the points of the harbor channel entrance so I headed south to the bubbleup.
An early south breeze made the surface slightly bumpy, but no biggie. Got to the buoys and made a few pitches with large plastics...again searching for ol' wallie. Not home. Did get some tentative taps that I assumed were whities. I was righty. Switched to smaller plastics and got a few of those. Nothing big but did get one double. Not a lot of them showing up along the pipe yet.
I started dragging bait on one rod while pitching jigs in to the pipe. Silly kitties wouldn't let me focus on jig fishing. As soon as my minnow settled down the line would pop free from the clip and go streaming off the open bailed reel. Then I had to frantically reel in the jigs, put up that rod and deal with the kitty. Tough duty but somebody's gotta do it.
I had close to a limit of 8 cookie cutter (21") cats in my basket by 8:30 and began releasing them. By the time Marty and I finally got together I had kept 8 and release about that many more. I handed off some of my unused minnows. He had one nice cat and a big ugly carp he had kept for "dissection and distribution"...catfish bait. I motored back to the harbor for some more inside prospecting while Marty stayed outside to play with the kitties.
By the time we both got off the water...about noonish...I had caught a UL "grand slime"...5 species, including crappie, bluegills, white bass, channel cat and bullhead. If I hadn't of farmed off a couple of carp I would have had 6. And if I hadn't lost the one walleye I hooked it would have been 7. Woulda coulda shoulda.
Marty finished up strong his own self. He scored a limit of kitties for the smoker too.
Another good day on the water for the old fudds. Seems like old times. Been too long.
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First time we have fished together in over two years. His fault. If he hadn't rolled his truck in Idaho a couple of years ago...and if he had mended faster...oh well. It was good to "hook up" again.
Air temp at 6am was 45 and water temp 59. It has cooled down with the past few days cold snap but should jump back up again by the weekend.
I launched before road got there and promptly dinged a couple of crappie-ettes. Right next to shore inside the harbor. Then a couple of bluegills that were as big as the crappies. Third species was small white bass. The ardently desired walleyes failed to show at the points of the harbor channel entrance so I headed south to the bubbleup.
An early south breeze made the surface slightly bumpy, but no biggie. Got to the buoys and made a few pitches with large plastics...again searching for ol' wallie. Not home. Did get some tentative taps that I assumed were whities. I was righty. Switched to smaller plastics and got a few of those. Nothing big but did get one double. Not a lot of them showing up along the pipe yet.
I started dragging bait on one rod while pitching jigs in to the pipe. Silly kitties wouldn't let me focus on jig fishing. As soon as my minnow settled down the line would pop free from the clip and go streaming off the open bailed reel. Then I had to frantically reel in the jigs, put up that rod and deal with the kitty. Tough duty but somebody's gotta do it.
I had close to a limit of 8 cookie cutter (21") cats in my basket by 8:30 and began releasing them. By the time Marty and I finally got together I had kept 8 and release about that many more. I handed off some of my unused minnows. He had one nice cat and a big ugly carp he had kept for "dissection and distribution"...catfish bait. I motored back to the harbor for some more inside prospecting while Marty stayed outside to play with the kitties.
By the time we both got off the water...about noonish...I had caught a UL "grand slime"...5 species, including crappie, bluegills, white bass, channel cat and bullhead. If I hadn't of farmed off a couple of carp I would have had 6. And if I hadn't lost the one walleye I hooked it would have been 7. Woulda coulda shoulda.
Marty finished up strong his own self. He scored a limit of kitties for the smoker too.
Another good day on the water for the old fudds. Seems like old times. Been too long.
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