Tubing Jordanelle 8-3-06

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[cool][font "Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"][black][size 1][#0000ff]Met up with Lunkerhunter2 and his buddy Justin. LH2 in a toon, and Justin and myself in tubes. Nice sunrise, calm morning, water temp 73. Water level has dropped about 10 feet in the last couple of weeks.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I started by casting a spinner as we kicked/rowed across to the south shoreline. Small trout were rising and I had one on briefly. Changed spinners several times but no more hits on hardware.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Jigged along the bank and picked up a few dinky perch (3 to 4 inchers). Did get one smallie about 10 inches on a small baitbug. Got doubles on six inch smallies on my tandem rig. Bitty bass.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Nobody was rocking them at Rock Cliff today. Didn't see any of the half dozen boats bring in any fish at all. Our group scored an occasional small perch or baby smallmouth. That's it.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I moved across the channel to the gravel shorelines on the north side. started getting lots more hits from small fish. Got a couple of sub-12 smallies and then got into an area of larger perch...up to 9". Tossed back a bunch but kept a half dozen for bait strips.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]LH2 had to leave early, for another commitment. I only stayed another half hour or so myself, and was off the water by a little after noon. Most of my fish came on small jigs and worm. The largest of the small fish came on the deadly confetti colored mini tubes. Had one bigger smallmouth dive into the brush along the bank. That stuff holds fish but it eats lures too.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As I started in, the W kicked up...blowing directly from the launch ramp, of course. There were also a couple of PWC's that launched and did some noisy donuts fairly close to where I was fishing. Then they gunned their motors and shot out of the channel...completely ignoring the no wake zone.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Good to fish with ya again LH2. Next time let's order more and bigger fish.[/#0000ff]
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[flygoddess]

[font "Comic Sans MS"][black][size 3]That picture of the wakeless and witless, is why we don't go up there. Police will pull us over to check license, but these guys never stop.[/size][/black][/font]
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[zonker]

Nice report and great pics. I especially like the daybreak one. That is truly a magical time of the day. Your photo captured it perfectly. That time is surely better than later when the witless, mannerless, clueless clowns show up. Utter disregard for their fellow man. Ya sometimes gotta wonder what we'll be in a generation with these bozos polluting the gene pool. I best leave it at that though as getting wound up over it solves nothing. Where's the pond sherriff when you need him? Maybe FG is right. He's off checking the licenses of those he can catch more easily because they observe the law.

Having said that however, about two or three weeks ago during the heat wave I took my grandkids to a lake here in town to cool off. There was a sherriff's boat out giving tickets to the joy riders who buzzed the swimmers too closely. Did my heart good! I think there were some others around me that shared my view given that they were looking on with s. It was fun to watch the speeders recede (slowly) into the distance, rooster tails at half mast, with tickets in hand. One of the very few times in life when the perps get what they have coming.

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