10-19-2004, 04:31 PM
Got snowed out at work yesterday morning and was sitting around the house about noon and noticed the storm was breaking a little so I loaded up the pontoon and headed for Lincoln.
I had a little car trouble getting down there. Long story short I ended up with a two hour delay and my catallitic converter cut off of my truck making it sound like a stock car. Figured I was all the way to spanish fork, mind as well hit the lake.
Launched between the second and third hot springs. Third cast hooked up a nice white bass. Ten minutes later hooked up a decent 20"+ walleye, came out of the water and gave me a good look, but through the hook. A few bumps and head shakes later I hooked into what I thought had to be a foul hooked carp the way it was stipping line. Finally made a bit roll on the surface and I realized it was a no doubt in my mind 10 lb. walleye, fought it slow and careful for 10 more minutes, finally tired him out enough to land, had him between the pontoon four inches from my net when his huge head came out of the water, made one big shake and out popped the jig. I threw a full on temper tantrum right there on the water. It was the biggest walleye I had ever seen let alone been four inches from netting.
Final score 1 white bass, 3 foul hooked carp; one toped out at 18lbs on the digital scale, hooked in the dorsal fin and landed on six pound test. Numerous hard hits, several with a head shake or two and one giant "what could have been". I was using a tandem grub set-up 1/8th chartuese head on top and a 1/16 black jig on bottom. Grubs were white, clear chartuese, clear purple, purple/black, and hot pink rotated regularly. The hulk hit the white grub on a black head, the white bass took the clear chartuese on a black head. all the other hits is anyones guess.
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I had a little car trouble getting down there. Long story short I ended up with a two hour delay and my catallitic converter cut off of my truck making it sound like a stock car. Figured I was all the way to spanish fork, mind as well hit the lake.
Launched between the second and third hot springs. Third cast hooked up a nice white bass. Ten minutes later hooked up a decent 20"+ walleye, came out of the water and gave me a good look, but through the hook. A few bumps and head shakes later I hooked into what I thought had to be a foul hooked carp the way it was stipping line. Finally made a bit roll on the surface and I realized it was a no doubt in my mind 10 lb. walleye, fought it slow and careful for 10 more minutes, finally tired him out enough to land, had him between the pontoon four inches from my net when his huge head came out of the water, made one big shake and out popped the jig. I threw a full on temper tantrum right there on the water. It was the biggest walleye I had ever seen let alone been four inches from netting.
Final score 1 white bass, 3 foul hooked carp; one toped out at 18lbs on the digital scale, hooked in the dorsal fin and landed on six pound test. Numerous hard hits, several with a head shake or two and one giant "what could have been". I was using a tandem grub set-up 1/8th chartuese head on top and a 1/16 black jig on bottom. Grubs were white, clear chartuese, clear purple, purple/black, and hot pink rotated regularly. The hulk hit the white grub on a black head, the white bass took the clear chartuese on a black head. all the other hits is anyones guess.
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I can see the semi-resemblance.