10-15-2004, 10:49 PM
[cool][blue][size 2]Tubebabe and myself had a decent morning at Lincoln Beach. Hit the water at 7:30 AM. Air temp 40 and water temp 55. Jed Burton cruised up in his luxury pontoon craft. He had been out since 6 AM, with no bites...even mosquitoes.
Lots of casts and only a couple of bumps until 9 AM. TubeBabe announced on the radio that she had just landed an 11 inch white bass on all purple. I changed the top jig on my tandem rig to all purple. Two casts later, I felt a solid thump and wrestled in a feisty 19 inch walleye. Things were looking up.
Had several more good whacks but no hookups. Finally, got two 22 inchers in quick succession. Kept the first one and released the skinny second one. Called Tubebabe over to see if she could score a couple. I paddled off in search of another small fish or two.
I had caught my last walleye about 11:30. Just before noon, TubeBabe radioed that she was hooked up to a BIG walleye. She gladly accepted when I offered assistance in subduing it and putting it in her basket. She lifted it in the net for a picture, but would not risk losing her biggest ever 'eye, by holding it up for a classic fish photo.
We got a few more tentative pokes in the next hour, but figured we were good for dinner. Had other things to do at home so we beached and boogied. Water temp at 1 PM was 57.5 and air temp was 75.
TubeBabe got big fish honors for the day. Her toothy mama measured 26 inches and weighed 6.5 pounds. It definitely made her trip worthwhile.
My 19" 'eye weighed 3.1 pounds and the 22" weighed 3.6. I doubt that the skinny one I released weighed even 3 pounds.
There were quite a few guys wading and casting in front of the springs today. Saw several white bass taken, but only one other fish. I think it was a walleye, but I was not close enough for a postitive ID.
Saw lots of smaller fish on the sonar today. The whites seem to be moving in. The guys along the shore were tossing spinners with good results.
All of our walleyes today came on the new metallic paint jig heads and different color variations of plastics produced by about a dozen new plastic dye colors I just got. Purple seemed to be the main color...either purple sparkle or purple with a chartreuse tail. I used 1/8 oz. heads on the bottom of my tandem rigs and 1/16 oz. on the upper jig.
TubeBabe's big mama came on a 4" purple pearl and chartreuse plastic, fished solo, with a 1/16 oz head, fished slow. She cheated though. She added a strip of crawler.
I took out one of my med light 7 foot baitcasting rods I made while down in Arizona. I had not thrown it yet at LB and it turned out to be the rig I caught all three of my walleyes on. I kept going back and forth, but the action was on the revolving spool reel setup. There is just something about the feel and the control with the light baitcaster that usually seems to improve my results.
Saturday should be calm like today, altough there is a possiblity of some W and even R before Sunday is over. My prediction is that the 'eyes are moving in and it should only get better.
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Lots of casts and only a couple of bumps until 9 AM. TubeBabe announced on the radio that she had just landed an 11 inch white bass on all purple. I changed the top jig on my tandem rig to all purple. Two casts later, I felt a solid thump and wrestled in a feisty 19 inch walleye. Things were looking up.
Had several more good whacks but no hookups. Finally, got two 22 inchers in quick succession. Kept the first one and released the skinny second one. Called Tubebabe over to see if she could score a couple. I paddled off in search of another small fish or two.
I had caught my last walleye about 11:30. Just before noon, TubeBabe radioed that she was hooked up to a BIG walleye. She gladly accepted when I offered assistance in subduing it and putting it in her basket. She lifted it in the net for a picture, but would not risk losing her biggest ever 'eye, by holding it up for a classic fish photo.
We got a few more tentative pokes in the next hour, but figured we were good for dinner. Had other things to do at home so we beached and boogied. Water temp at 1 PM was 57.5 and air temp was 75.
TubeBabe got big fish honors for the day. Her toothy mama measured 26 inches and weighed 6.5 pounds. It definitely made her trip worthwhile.
My 19" 'eye weighed 3.1 pounds and the 22" weighed 3.6. I doubt that the skinny one I released weighed even 3 pounds.
There were quite a few guys wading and casting in front of the springs today. Saw several white bass taken, but only one other fish. I think it was a walleye, but I was not close enough for a postitive ID.
Saw lots of smaller fish on the sonar today. The whites seem to be moving in. The guys along the shore were tossing spinners with good results.
All of our walleyes today came on the new metallic paint jig heads and different color variations of plastics produced by about a dozen new plastic dye colors I just got. Purple seemed to be the main color...either purple sparkle or purple with a chartreuse tail. I used 1/8 oz. heads on the bottom of my tandem rigs and 1/16 oz. on the upper jig.
TubeBabe's big mama came on a 4" purple pearl and chartreuse plastic, fished solo, with a 1/16 oz head, fished slow. She cheated though. She added a strip of crawler.
I took out one of my med light 7 foot baitcasting rods I made while down in Arizona. I had not thrown it yet at LB and it turned out to be the rig I caught all three of my walleyes on. I kept going back and forth, but the action was on the revolving spool reel setup. There is just something about the feel and the control with the light baitcaster that usually seems to improve my results.
Saturday should be calm like today, altough there is a possiblity of some W and even R before Sunday is over. My prediction is that the 'eyes are moving in and it should only get better.
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