08-11-2014, 11:20 PM
[#0000FF]I was informed over the weekend that I have (again) been elected to provide the fish and the cooking for our annual extended family fish fry. Lucky me. In anticipation I had been accumulating a few packages of different fish species. Needed some more Willard Bay cookie cutter kitty flesh.
Monday looked like a good possible weatherwise for hitting Willard. But with the super moon, slow fishing reports and a dozen other excuses I was prepared to be treated badly by Willard...again. Didn't need no stinking excuses. Did jes fine, thank y'all.
Air temp 63 and water temp 76 at 6:30 launch. Had a big old light in the southern sky to light my way out of the harbor. Dragged bait and threw plastics all the way out of the channel and out past the two sets of buoys. Yes, two sets. The water is so shallow on either side of the channel you need to avoid turning right or left until you get way out there.
Actually, not much boat traffic. The "Ramp Closed" sign (see pic) probably has something to do with that. Still, a couple of boats launched...one small tin boat and then a big ski boat. Otherwise the lake was power squadron free today.
Oh yeah, if you get a wild urge to run the dike north of the channel you might wanna watch out for all the new rocks sticking up out of the bottom about a hundred yards from the mouth of the channel. Bottom is very shallow there too. Would love to be there when some doofus took it on.
Nary a nibble today until after 8 am...and after I reached over 9 feet of water and the sun came over the top of the mountain. Then I got nibbles. Lots of nibbles from itty bitty kitties. They drove me bonkers. Bang and boogie. Once in a while something more substantial would come to play and I would add a nice Willard cookie cutter to my basket.
I covered a LOT of water today...dragging bait, bouncing jigs, pitching cranks. Never did find any concentration of fish. Worked and watched sonar from about 5' out to some 11 foot water off the feed lot. Most bites and all keeper kitties came from either side of 9 feet of water.
Kept 7 cookies for the fish fry and probably tossed back a dozen dinks. Good to see them in there for future reference but someone should tell them they ain't supposed to interfere with serious catters.
Stayed pretty calm all day. Water temp rose to 80 about noon. Figured I'd get out of the heat, fillet my fish at the cleaning station and be home in time for an afternoon geezer nap. Figured wrong.
Pulled my tube up on the ramp and walked up to get my Blazer. Hmmm. That left rear tire was looking "tired"...kinda flat. Man. Haven't had a flat in 10 years and now I have two within a month. I'm getting too old for that stuff. It ain't true that you are twice as good at 70 as you were at 35. By the time I got the spare on and the gear loaded I was done. Took the fish home to fillet. Probably would have passed out if I had stayed in the heat much longer. 93. Eeeeenuf.
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Monday looked like a good possible weatherwise for hitting Willard. But with the super moon, slow fishing reports and a dozen other excuses I was prepared to be treated badly by Willard...again. Didn't need no stinking excuses. Did jes fine, thank y'all.
Air temp 63 and water temp 76 at 6:30 launch. Had a big old light in the southern sky to light my way out of the harbor. Dragged bait and threw plastics all the way out of the channel and out past the two sets of buoys. Yes, two sets. The water is so shallow on either side of the channel you need to avoid turning right or left until you get way out there.
Actually, not much boat traffic. The "Ramp Closed" sign (see pic) probably has something to do with that. Still, a couple of boats launched...one small tin boat and then a big ski boat. Otherwise the lake was power squadron free today.
Oh yeah, if you get a wild urge to run the dike north of the channel you might wanna watch out for all the new rocks sticking up out of the bottom about a hundred yards from the mouth of the channel. Bottom is very shallow there too. Would love to be there when some doofus took it on.
Nary a nibble today until after 8 am...and after I reached over 9 feet of water and the sun came over the top of the mountain. Then I got nibbles. Lots of nibbles from itty bitty kitties. They drove me bonkers. Bang and boogie. Once in a while something more substantial would come to play and I would add a nice Willard cookie cutter to my basket.
I covered a LOT of water today...dragging bait, bouncing jigs, pitching cranks. Never did find any concentration of fish. Worked and watched sonar from about 5' out to some 11 foot water off the feed lot. Most bites and all keeper kitties came from either side of 9 feet of water.
Kept 7 cookies for the fish fry and probably tossed back a dozen dinks. Good to see them in there for future reference but someone should tell them they ain't supposed to interfere with serious catters.
Stayed pretty calm all day. Water temp rose to 80 about noon. Figured I'd get out of the heat, fillet my fish at the cleaning station and be home in time for an afternoon geezer nap. Figured wrong.
Pulled my tube up on the ramp and walked up to get my Blazer. Hmmm. That left rear tire was looking "tired"...kinda flat. Man. Haven't had a flat in 10 years and now I have two within a month. I'm getting too old for that stuff. It ain't true that you are twice as good at 70 as you were at 35. By the time I got the spare on and the gear loaded I was done. Took the fish home to fillet. Probably would have passed out if I had stayed in the heat much longer. 93. Eeeeenuf.
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