09-19-2016, 08:48 PM
[#0000FF]Had a "hook-up" planned with Skunked but changing weather forecasts made it look like Monday would be a better day than our original Tuesday play date. But he couldn't make it...so I went by my ownself. He missed some nice weather but the fishing? Not too much.
Nice day indeed. Not too hot. Not too cold. Not too windy. Not too many skiers or PWC. Not too many bugs (some midges). But not too many fish either.
Flat glass at my 6:30 launch. Air temp 54 and water temp 67...warming to just over 68 by noon departure. Brief breezes a couple of times but still flat glass when I left. Colors starting to show nicely on the mountains to the east.
Did the usual...dragged a minnow on one rod and worked cranks or plastics on t'other. About my second cast with a 3" chartreuse shad twister I got a nice whack and brought a nice twenny-incher walleye to the tube. Reached for the net and D'oh! Some doofus left it at home. The walleye took advantage of my senior moment and gave me back my jig before I could get it to calm down enough for the lip gripper.
Just knew that was gonna be the pattern of the day. Figured I was doomed to hook walleye and wiper after walleye and wiper...only to "release" them at the tube because I was unable to scoop them with a net. Nay, not so. The everlovin' cookie cutter kitties took pity on a poor old guy and nothing over about 20 inches climbed on to my minnow or jig. Those that did were small enough to hoist aboard and I din't lose a single one. No married ones neither. Kept 5 for a couple of tasty meals.
I covered a lot of water between the marina and the north dike. Saw a couple of bait balls on sonar but no bigger fish around them. No schools of larger fish anywhere. A few strays here and there.
Saw one group of grebes but they did not seem to be actively working anything below them. No terns and no boils. Just some pucker-lip carp sucking in the dead midges floating on the calm surface. Woulda been fun with a small dry fly. They were busy.
Only a half dozen or so boats out of the north marina this morning. Didn't see any of them stay in one area much.
I was surprised the water was staying up near the 70 degree mark. I usually do much better in the fall...for walleyes, crappies, perch and wipers...if the temps drop a bit below 60. I'll be patient. Guess I'll head south to join the diehards on Utah Lake...to bump up my catfish score before the contest ends. And I heard tell there might be a walleye or two waiting for me.
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Nice day indeed. Not too hot. Not too cold. Not too windy. Not too many skiers or PWC. Not too many bugs (some midges). But not too many fish either.
Flat glass at my 6:30 launch. Air temp 54 and water temp 67...warming to just over 68 by noon departure. Brief breezes a couple of times but still flat glass when I left. Colors starting to show nicely on the mountains to the east.
Did the usual...dragged a minnow on one rod and worked cranks or plastics on t'other. About my second cast with a 3" chartreuse shad twister I got a nice whack and brought a nice twenny-incher walleye to the tube. Reached for the net and D'oh! Some doofus left it at home. The walleye took advantage of my senior moment and gave me back my jig before I could get it to calm down enough for the lip gripper.
Just knew that was gonna be the pattern of the day. Figured I was doomed to hook walleye and wiper after walleye and wiper...only to "release" them at the tube because I was unable to scoop them with a net. Nay, not so. The everlovin' cookie cutter kitties took pity on a poor old guy and nothing over about 20 inches climbed on to my minnow or jig. Those that did were small enough to hoist aboard and I din't lose a single one. No married ones neither. Kept 5 for a couple of tasty meals.
I covered a lot of water between the marina and the north dike. Saw a couple of bait balls on sonar but no bigger fish around them. No schools of larger fish anywhere. A few strays here and there.
Saw one group of grebes but they did not seem to be actively working anything below them. No terns and no boils. Just some pucker-lip carp sucking in the dead midges floating on the calm surface. Woulda been fun with a small dry fly. They were busy.
Only a half dozen or so boats out of the north marina this morning. Didn't see any of them stay in one area much.
I was surprised the water was staying up near the 70 degree mark. I usually do much better in the fall...for walleyes, crappies, perch and wipers...if the temps drop a bit below 60. I'll be patient. Guess I'll head south to join the diehards on Utah Lake...to bump up my catfish score before the contest ends. And I heard tell there might be a walleye or two waiting for me.
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