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So I went up to Porcupine on Monday for the first time. Me and a buddy went up there looking for kokanee but I got a story of a lifetime, (with a few kokanee).

Fishing with two poles and my new fish finder I couldn't find fish anywhere on the lake. But I finally got a bite on one pole and set the hook. I brought the fish up less then five feet before my line snapped. I was pretty upset since I had a new Kastmaster and rat finkee on the line that I lost along with the fish. But I began to tie on more hooks and keep an eye on the other pole despite my disgust. I jigged my pole in the water using my little jigger while I worked on the other pole. Just as I was about to drop the new hooks in the water I noticed a large line coming up from the bottom on the RTS. I watched the line connect with the line my jigs made on the finder and as they did I had a bite. Dropping the other pole I set the hook and bring up the heavy fish. As I pulled it out of the ice I couldn't believe how big it was. Then I noticed another fish had come up the hole with it. Not wanting to let the second fish get away I reached down to grab it but it slid back in the hole when I let some slack in the line from the first fish. So I pulled the first fish out again and there was the second fish still so I kept tension on the line and reached in the water and grabbed the fish when I realized it had a hook in its mouth also. Both fish were hooked on my line! I thought that was a cool double. But when I took the first hook out it had my previously lost kastmaster in its mouth! Looking at the other fish I found my rat finkee. Both fish had a hook from the lost line plus a hook on the line I pulled them out of the ice on.


I call that a double double!

Here are some pics of the two Brown trout

Wow. I need to fish with you. With my luck I would have lost all of the lures, plus my rod, my BigFish patch and gotten crapped on by a low flying bird.
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I'm with you, but I with my luck I would look up to see what flew over and it would crap in my eye causing me to stumble and fall in an ice hole.
Great story, great fish.................................
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Wow! That is quite a story.

Last year at the Berry a few friends of mine had both caught nice cuts over the slot, and I had not. We had caught roughly 30 fish each that day, so I figured I would go for something really big. I tied on a 4" tube with a whole 3" red shiner minnow. Within 30 seconds of dropping down I got slammed. In true Roland Martin fashion, I tried to set the hook and snapped the line. I was very frustrated. I tied the same rig back on, and again got hit hard. This time I hooked the fish and brought it in. Nice 23" cutt. I kept it.

When I got home and filleted it, I noticed the stomach had something large in it. I opened it up, and there was the tube and minnow I had lost on the first drop. The minnow was still on the hook. That fish flat out inhaled the 1st offering... and wanted more. []
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Right on! I knew we should've came over and introduced ourselves!
That's awesome you got your jig and kastmaster back! One of these days I hope to catch my first Koke out of Porcupine : ) Sounds like you guys got into them a bit!
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But have you ever caught a fish skeleton or a flying bat? I've seen both, and wouldn't have believed it otherwise.
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Looks like we're in for another series of strange fish stories. I might as well add one of mine. I was fishing one of my favorite spots on the Bear River for Brown trout, using a spinner. But that's not important. I hooked a nice 15 incher and decided it was time for a nice baked trout dinner. I think I saved this fish's life because when I cleaned it out I discovered that it had swallowed, at some point in the not to distant past, a stick that was about 6 inches long. It had a close resemblance to a large minnow, in shape. I would bet that the fish would have eventually died from having eaten the stick. Glad I was there to do it a favor.
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Down at Powell this October 1 I caught a bass that threw up a bat!!! (winged type not baseball) and I also caught a seagull. seagull first ( the bass didn't throw up a Seagull; however that would have been one hell of a bass)!
By the way if you're interested in what I caught the seagull on it was a topwater plug with a VERY fast retrieve. No tournament points for the seagull. Anyone with a good seeagull recepit?
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