06-19-2004, 04:54 PM
Well as I drive by Deer Creek every morning on the way to work I get to check out the top water action. When the carp started spawning I told FB2 so he could try out his new bow set-up. Now have some nice catfish bait.
Well the last couple of mornings I noticed some top water action in the Wallsberg channel area. So Friday I leave a bit early to give it a try. 5:00 am on the water, and the trout are slurping the bugs right next to my tube. It's something to see their mouths break the surface and not see anything else of them. Being in a hurray to get out I left most my tackle in other places. The closet, the basement, the boat! But I had 2 curly tail jigs, and 3 wet flies. They didn't even look at the jigs. But after some changing positions of the flies (renegade with gold wraping, black wolly, and a brown fuzzy something that FB2 tied) I started cathing fish. Nothing great big but fun anyway. I tied the flies behind a casting buble at 6 and 9 feet. When I put the renegade on the bottom leader and the brown fuzzy on the top I started to do OK. First was a 14 inch bow, then a couple of 8 to maybe 10 inchers. Healthy fish this year and lots of spunk, maybe that was becuase I was using my ice fishing pole, it was the only one in the truck. I was there until 6:45 when I had to leave for work caught 10 fish total 8 bows and 3 browns biggest was 17 inches smallest ..... well lets say I don't know how it got a #2 hook in it's mouth. But it was a great way to start the work day.
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Well the last couple of mornings I noticed some top water action in the Wallsberg channel area. So Friday I leave a bit early to give it a try. 5:00 am on the water, and the trout are slurping the bugs right next to my tube. It's something to see their mouths break the surface and not see anything else of them. Being in a hurray to get out I left most my tackle in other places. The closet, the basement, the boat! But I had 2 curly tail jigs, and 3 wet flies. They didn't even look at the jigs. But after some changing positions of the flies (renegade with gold wraping, black wolly, and a brown fuzzy something that FB2 tied) I started cathing fish. Nothing great big but fun anyway. I tied the flies behind a casting buble at 6 and 9 feet. When I put the renegade on the bottom leader and the brown fuzzy on the top I started to do OK. First was a 14 inch bow, then a couple of 8 to maybe 10 inchers. Healthy fish this year and lots of spunk, maybe that was becuase I was using my ice fishing pole, it was the only one in the truck. I was there until 6:45 when I had to leave for work caught 10 fish total 8 bows and 3 browns biggest was 17 inches smallest ..... well lets say I don't know how it got a #2 hook in it's mouth. But it was a great way to start the work day.
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