07-23-2013, 09:25 PM
[#0000FF]A quick put-together trip for TubeBabe and I. With state holiday tomorrow, birthdays and sloppy weather forecast it was about our only shot at fishing this week.
Launched at Walsburg about 6:40...with the full moon just sliding down on the other side of Timpanogos. 60 degree air temp and 73 water temp. Warmer than I thought it would be.
I crossed the channel to the north side and TubeBabe worked along the south side. I started scoring small smallies with almost every cast on my small jigs. They ranged from 6 inches to 10 inches. Fun on light tackle but no danger of line breakage.
After about an hour, I started getting fewer whacks. But the fish were a little bigger. Got quite a few ten inchers and a few footlongs. My largest for the morning was a 14 incher...with a notch in the top of his head. Gotta be a good story there somewhere.
One of the highlights of the morning was the swimmer that came up on me from behind. He had been fairly quiet but suddenly started really splashing. I thought I might be under attack from Moby Carp. Snapped a quick pic as he cruised by.
TubeBabe announced on the walkie talkie that she was also catching quite a few "smallettes". But nothing over about 8 inches. Like myself, she had lost a couple of bigger ones to long-line releases when they jumped and flipped her the jig.
I pushed eastward until I ran out of Walsburg Bay. Got really shallow with a channel only slightly deeper. Cruised around back and forth over the channel and didn't see any fishkind on sonar. I did see a few sheep grazing near the water on the fresh green growth on the mud bank newly exposed by the dropping water level.
Oh yeah, I also found a small inflated raft some child evidently lost in the breeze and it ended up at the back corner of Walsburg. Boo hoo.
TubeBabe and I agreed we would make an early day of it. Fewer and fewer bites by only small smallies. Saw quite a few suspended fish that had lockjaw and upraised fins on our sonar screens. We don't need that kind of dissing. We get plenty from kids and grandkids.
On the way back TubeBabe crossed over and reworked the north shoreline that I left to go try her side of the channel. The lake is always wetter...or however that goes. I promptly began catching her sub-dinks and she scored a few larger small ones.
I did get to enjoy a brief but interesting aerial battle between a hawk and what appeared to be a couple of blackbirds. The smaller and more agile birds were attacking from above and the rear and the poor hawk was unable to do much about it but kick in the afterburner and boogie.
No other species besides smallies today. Had one six inchish perch drop off at the tube. Would have liked to score some other species...and bigger fish. But, it was a nice morning and we got enough play from the smallettes to keep us from smelling skunk. We released everything except for a few in the 10 to 11 inch range.
Fought our way to the ramp through the blossoming power squadron and a couple of yakkers just heading out. On the road shortly after 11. Had better days but had worse too. I am properly grateful for any time on the water.
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Launched at Walsburg about 6:40...with the full moon just sliding down on the other side of Timpanogos. 60 degree air temp and 73 water temp. Warmer than I thought it would be.
I crossed the channel to the north side and TubeBabe worked along the south side. I started scoring small smallies with almost every cast on my small jigs. They ranged from 6 inches to 10 inches. Fun on light tackle but no danger of line breakage.
After about an hour, I started getting fewer whacks. But the fish were a little bigger. Got quite a few ten inchers and a few footlongs. My largest for the morning was a 14 incher...with a notch in the top of his head. Gotta be a good story there somewhere.
One of the highlights of the morning was the swimmer that came up on me from behind. He had been fairly quiet but suddenly started really splashing. I thought I might be under attack from Moby Carp. Snapped a quick pic as he cruised by.
TubeBabe announced on the walkie talkie that she was also catching quite a few "smallettes". But nothing over about 8 inches. Like myself, she had lost a couple of bigger ones to long-line releases when they jumped and flipped her the jig.
I pushed eastward until I ran out of Walsburg Bay. Got really shallow with a channel only slightly deeper. Cruised around back and forth over the channel and didn't see any fishkind on sonar. I did see a few sheep grazing near the water on the fresh green growth on the mud bank newly exposed by the dropping water level.
Oh yeah, I also found a small inflated raft some child evidently lost in the breeze and it ended up at the back corner of Walsburg. Boo hoo.
TubeBabe and I agreed we would make an early day of it. Fewer and fewer bites by only small smallies. Saw quite a few suspended fish that had lockjaw and upraised fins on our sonar screens. We don't need that kind of dissing. We get plenty from kids and grandkids.
On the way back TubeBabe crossed over and reworked the north shoreline that I left to go try her side of the channel. The lake is always wetter...or however that goes. I promptly began catching her sub-dinks and she scored a few larger small ones.
I did get to enjoy a brief but interesting aerial battle between a hawk and what appeared to be a couple of blackbirds. The smaller and more agile birds were attacking from above and the rear and the poor hawk was unable to do much about it but kick in the afterburner and boogie.
No other species besides smallies today. Had one six inchish perch drop off at the tube. Would have liked to score some other species...and bigger fish. But, it was a nice morning and we got enough play from the smallettes to keep us from smelling skunk. We released everything except for a few in the 10 to 11 inch range.
Fought our way to the ramp through the blossoming power squadron and a couple of yakkers just heading out. On the road shortly after 11. Had better days but had worse too. I am properly grateful for any time on the water.
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