07-13-2004, 02:10 AM
Hit pineview today.
Fishing for smallmouth, finally got into some decent ones up there. my biggest for the day was 16 inches.
Idiot'ed into two tigermuskies while fishing the smallies. You should have seen it, it was quite a sight, me cursing these muskies cause I didnt want them to break my 8 lb test and steal my lure, and all the musky fishermen in disbelief that I didnt want to catch a musky.
One broke me off as I was trying to tail it. Stinking thing got away with my lure that time. The second one I was able to tail and retrieve my lure, but it was so tore up from teeth I had to get a new one on anyways. 36 inches on the one I tailed, and I am guessing 30 on the other one, but didnt get to pull him out of the water to see.
Lots and lots of smallies though. I averaged fish in the 8 - 12 inch range, and like I said had several of the nicer ones for the day as well.
Had to leave around 5:00 since the water skiiiers were showing up in seriuos force out there.
Hotter than heck out there around 3:00 but I have been applying lessons learned from "The Smallmouth Instructor" otherwise known as tomegun. See the wind started blowing pretty good around 3:00 and the waves were crashing on a point pretty good so I moved around the other side and knocked down a bunch of fish cast after cast. Apparently tomegun knows a thing or two about activating bass. Now if he can just get me into a fish or two on that there sterile lake, jordanelle, I will be alright.
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Fishing for smallmouth, finally got into some decent ones up there. my biggest for the day was 16 inches.
Idiot'ed into two tigermuskies while fishing the smallies. You should have seen it, it was quite a sight, me cursing these muskies cause I didnt want them to break my 8 lb test and steal my lure, and all the musky fishermen in disbelief that I didnt want to catch a musky.
One broke me off as I was trying to tail it. Stinking thing got away with my lure that time. The second one I was able to tail and retrieve my lure, but it was so tore up from teeth I had to get a new one on anyways. 36 inches on the one I tailed, and I am guessing 30 on the other one, but didnt get to pull him out of the water to see.
Lots and lots of smallies though. I averaged fish in the 8 - 12 inch range, and like I said had several of the nicer ones for the day as well.
Had to leave around 5:00 since the water skiiiers were showing up in seriuos force out there.
Hotter than heck out there around 3:00 but I have been applying lessons learned from "The Smallmouth Instructor" otherwise known as tomegun. See the wind started blowing pretty good around 3:00 and the waves were crashing on a point pretty good so I moved around the other side and knocked down a bunch of fish cast after cast. Apparently tomegun knows a thing or two about activating bass. Now if he can just get me into a fish or two on that there sterile lake, jordanelle, I will be alright.
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