06-12-2005, 07:46 PM
Made it up to Scofield yesterday with my parents, my two brothers and a couple of their friends. Started out at our usual place with the usual bait. I got out in my pontoon for the first time all year to get nothing but a skunk. I paddled around the mouth of the dam bay for a while to get not a bite. [
] What a waste of time. I finally came back in around 10. I was sitting there soaking a minner with no luck when my brother got a bite. He was using my little minirod. He wasn't paying too much attention, and my pole went right into the water. [][] I got out in my toon as quick as I could and finally found the rod lodged between a couple rocks. Thank goodness! That would have been a $30 pole to replace. I pulled the rod to the side to set the hook and brought the pole back in to my brother. He reeled in the fish. Only a 12" guppy. That didn't make too much sense to me. We fished untill around 2. I didn't get one bite the entire time. The others in my group got a few, including a couple of 23"ers.
We started going down SF canyon, only to hit a wall of traffic. So back to Scofield we went. I started casting a gold kastmaster. I had on one decent fish(about 17" long), then hooked into my first fish. A 5" rainbow. The fish in willow pond were bigger than this fish! He was pathetic! So my dad and I went around to this little hole he found yesterday. I think its a spawning place, since most the fish we caught there were cutts with ragged, cut up tails. I switched to a minnow under a bobber after my dad got another 18" fish. 5 minutes later my mom and brother walked down, and I finally got a bite. I set the hook to him, and pulled up a 21" beauty cutthroat. It was a georgeous fish! After the fish in that spot quit hitting we walked back to the first spot we fished. I put the kastmater back on and got another 5" guppy.
It turned out to be a decent trip, even though it rained most the time and was pretty cold. Only caught 21 fish for the group, compaired to 60+ fish a few weeks ago. I'm thinking only one more trip for me till the fall.
BTW, the previously promised pictures are getting developed. I dropped them off at sam's last friday, and they should be ready next wednesday.
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] What a waste of time. I finally came back in around 10. I was sitting there soaking a minner with no luck when my brother got a bite. He was using my little minirod. He wasn't paying too much attention, and my pole went right into the water. [][] I got out in my toon as quick as I could and finally found the rod lodged between a couple rocks. Thank goodness! That would have been a $30 pole to replace. I pulled the rod to the side to set the hook and brought the pole back in to my brother. He reeled in the fish. Only a 12" guppy. That didn't make too much sense to me. We fished untill around 2. I didn't get one bite the entire time. The others in my group got a few, including a couple of 23"ers. We started going down SF canyon, only to hit a wall of traffic. So back to Scofield we went. I started casting a gold kastmaster. I had on one decent fish(about 17" long), then hooked into my first fish. A 5" rainbow. The fish in willow pond were bigger than this fish! He was pathetic! So my dad and I went around to this little hole he found yesterday. I think its a spawning place, since most the fish we caught there were cutts with ragged, cut up tails. I switched to a minnow under a bobber after my dad got another 18" fish. 5 minutes later my mom and brother walked down, and I finally got a bite. I set the hook to him, and pulled up a 21" beauty cutthroat. It was a georgeous fish! After the fish in that spot quit hitting we walked back to the first spot we fished. I put the kastmater back on and got another 5" guppy.
It turned out to be a decent trip, even though it rained most the time and was pretty cold. Only caught 21 fish for the group, compaired to 60+ fish a few weeks ago. I'm thinking only one more trip for me till the fall.
BTW, the previously promised pictures are getting developed. I dropped them off at sam's last friday, and they should be ready next wednesday.
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