07-02-2017, 11:20 PM
Made one more trip to UL, Lincoln Beach today. Will probably be the last one this year. But it was worth it. Didn't catch near as many, and not as fast and furious. But caught enough and even had some laughs.
Launched out of LB heading for BI again. Tried trolling for some whities, and wasn't to be done today. Got close to BI, brought in our trolling lines, and son had a WB on his lure he hadn't even felt. But after a few cranks of the reel, the little WB did a self release, never to be seen again.
Got anchored off the north side of BI, and our lines out. Didn't have to wait too long for the first hits. An almost simultaneous double on my lines. Now I usually loose at least one on a 2-fer hit, but boated both this time.
Didn't have my lines back out very long and son got a hard hit and run. Fish almost to the boat, a few surface splashes, SNAP ! Son's line broke. Not more than a minute later one of my poles bent over almost double. I got a good hook set, lots of head shake, and while I was reeling, make a comment just joking with my son " wonder if it's the same fish that broke your line" To the boat, in the net, son says " it IS the same fish!" Sure nuff, his hook and broke line in one side of that greedy cats mouth and mine in the other. [laugh] We called that one his.
We each boated 3 or 4 more, biggest one was 23 inches, smallest about 21. Nothing to bump my contest score, but a nice day with son #3, fish boated and released, and all returned home safe and happy.
[fishon]
P.S. To whomever bought or provided the fish grippers at the Cat Contest Dinner last year, that I won as a door prize, and then thought they were such a good idea I bought a set for my son......those grippers got one heck of a workout at UL these 3 trips. Many thanks...........they work GREAT!
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Launched out of LB heading for BI again. Tried trolling for some whities, and wasn't to be done today. Got close to BI, brought in our trolling lines, and son had a WB on his lure he hadn't even felt. But after a few cranks of the reel, the little WB did a self release, never to be seen again.
Got anchored off the north side of BI, and our lines out. Didn't have to wait too long for the first hits. An almost simultaneous double on my lines. Now I usually loose at least one on a 2-fer hit, but boated both this time.
Didn't have my lines back out very long and son got a hard hit and run. Fish almost to the boat, a few surface splashes, SNAP ! Son's line broke. Not more than a minute later one of my poles bent over almost double. I got a good hook set, lots of head shake, and while I was reeling, make a comment just joking with my son " wonder if it's the same fish that broke your line" To the boat, in the net, son says " it IS the same fish!" Sure nuff, his hook and broke line in one side of that greedy cats mouth and mine in the other. [laugh] We called that one his.
We each boated 3 or 4 more, biggest one was 23 inches, smallest about 21. Nothing to bump my contest score, but a nice day with son #3, fish boated and released, and all returned home safe and happy.
[fishon]
P.S. To whomever bought or provided the fish grippers at the Cat Contest Dinner last year, that I won as a door prize, and then thought they were such a good idea I bought a set for my son......those grippers got one heck of a workout at UL these 3 trips. Many thanks...........they work GREAT!
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"OCD = Obsessive Catfish Disorder "
Or so it says on my license plate holder
Or so it says on my license plate holder
] . I have a 100-200 yard trail marked on my GPS around the outside edges of Bird Island where I have had safe depth. When I get to those points, I slow way down, and sometimes go in reverse and back in real slow so my sonar can see the contour changes sooner. I've avoided quite a few lone rocks that are poking up out of an otherwise flat bottom. There were several other boats around the island. Was that you by yourself off the north west corner, in a fiberglass boat (couldn't) see what kind. But the guy in that boat had his shirt off and seemed to be catching some nice cats. We were in the little 14' Lund with the Bimini top up just inside the horseshoe.