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Well, not too much to report here. Got on the water about 6:30. While I was setting up small bait fish were surfacing all over the ramp and I got excited thinking that everything might be active and it would be a good fishing day; little did I know that this was the most action I would see all day. Casted inside of the marina for a while, up and down both banks of the channel where I picked up a few walleye last trip and nada. Finally headed out to do a little slow trolling (toon doesn't quit reach the 3mph mark) I graphed tons of fish holding about 4' off the bottom in about 18' of water. Pulled every combination of swim bait, crank bait, and stick bait I had. Weighted some of them, pulled some off a bottom bouncer, pulled crawler harnesses, and drug some stick baits off a weighted 3-way rig; anything I could think of to get the baits down to the fish but no takers all day. In fact I didn't even have a bite all morning. I even drug a little perch meat for a little while to hopefully pickup a little channel to scare the skunk off. Oh well, could have been worse; I could have woke up an hour earlier and driven to work.
Water temp. at launch was 70.5 and got as high as 73. W was a little bit of a problem, not bad, just enough to spin the toon if I wasn't paying attention. Pretty light boat action today and didn't see my first representative from the rmp armada until I entered the marina to leave.
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You can't have good days unless you have a few bad ones to quantify what success means. Oh well, the willard skunking ended up being the highlight of my day. Took my lab for a walk last night and a big german sheppard came barreling out of its yard and slammed my lab. Got one of the canine teeth hooked under the hide on moose's rib cage and as she ran away tore about a 4" gash in her side. Looked like a half skinned deer, completely seperated the hide from the body. I had to run to the ER vet in Roy, was up there until 11:00 then had to drive back at 2:30 to pick her up after surgery. Pretty much ended my plans to hit Pineview this morning.
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