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[size 2][blue]TubeBabe and I met up with jbnsigma at the PWC ramp at Jordanelle this morning. We were all there about 5:45 and it was still very dark. Air temp about 50 and water temp 68.
Big chubs were boiling on the surface, just off the docks as we launched. J caught a 12 incher on his first cast. TubeBabe caught several throughout the morning. Somehow I managed to avoid the chubs today. I had to muddle through with trout, smallies and perch.
I thought all the surface action was caused by chubs. Wrong. There were some decent rainbows surfacing too. I had one smack a small jig just as it was getting light. Got a couple more later while vertical jigging for perch. Also saw a couple of bank tanglers score some small planters close to shore, under a bobber. Using power putty I think.
The dinky perchies were far too numerous today. Hard to get through them to larger perch. I lost several nice "basket fish" and TubeBabe managed to put a few in her basket. I think J ended up with a couple of keepers too.
I tied on larger jigs to try to keep away from the perchettes. It didn't work entirely. I still got a grundle and lost a lot of worms and perch meat to the bait stealers.
But...the smallies kept me very busy today, so I did not really mind the lack of larger perch. I was using some new PBJ's (painted body jigs) in fire tiger and in pale perch patterns. Also dunked some new colors of plastic tubes. The smallies voted for them with gusto. I easily caught 25 - 30 smallies. Over half were over 13"...with a couple of 15's and 16's...and one powerhouse reel stripper that went 18 1/2 inches. Just too much fun on light tackle. Many of those under 13" were fat 11" - 12" fish that bent my stick and stretched my string.
Only light breezes all morning. Surprising number of PWCs on the water. Guess all the kids are getting a last fling before school starts. But, since all the good fishing was inside the buoys, we were not bothered by the power squadron.
The highlight of my day was having a HUGE smallie follow up one of my small perch and then smack it just under the surface. Being a law abiding angler, who refuses to use live bait, I jerked the mugged perchie away before the big mean ol bass could slurp it. Yeah, right. Good thing I was fishing without waders. It woulda been a bit damp inside waders after seeing that big ol fishie.
Probably one of my better days for smallie tubin'...especially considerin' that I was targeting perch instead of the other guys. Now, if I had been dropshotting for smallies, I probably couldn't have kept the perch away. Hm-m-m-m-m-m.
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[size 2][blue]TubeBabe and I met up with jbnsigma at the PWC ramp at Jordanelle this morning. We were all there about 5:45 and it was still very dark. Air temp about 50 and water temp 68.
Big chubs were boiling on the surface, just off the docks as we launched. J caught a 12 incher on his first cast. TubeBabe caught several throughout the morning. Somehow I managed to avoid the chubs today. I had to muddle through with trout, smallies and perch.
I thought all the surface action was caused by chubs. Wrong. There were some decent rainbows surfacing too. I had one smack a small jig just as it was getting light. Got a couple more later while vertical jigging for perch. Also saw a couple of bank tanglers score some small planters close to shore, under a bobber. Using power putty I think.
The dinky perchies were far too numerous today. Hard to get through them to larger perch. I lost several nice "basket fish" and TubeBabe managed to put a few in her basket. I think J ended up with a couple of keepers too.
I tied on larger jigs to try to keep away from the perchettes. It didn't work entirely. I still got a grundle and lost a lot of worms and perch meat to the bait stealers.
But...the smallies kept me very busy today, so I did not really mind the lack of larger perch. I was using some new PBJ's (painted body jigs) in fire tiger and in pale perch patterns. Also dunked some new colors of plastic tubes. The smallies voted for them with gusto. I easily caught 25 - 30 smallies. Over half were over 13"...with a couple of 15's and 16's...and one powerhouse reel stripper that went 18 1/2 inches. Just too much fun on light tackle. Many of those under 13" were fat 11" - 12" fish that bent my stick and stretched my string.
Only light breezes all morning. Surprising number of PWCs on the water. Guess all the kids are getting a last fling before school starts. But, since all the good fishing was inside the buoys, we were not bothered by the power squadron.
The highlight of my day was having a HUGE smallie follow up one of my small perch and then smack it just under the surface. Being a law abiding angler, who refuses to use live bait, I jerked the mugged perchie away before the big mean ol bass could slurp it. Yeah, right. Good thing I was fishing without waders. It woulda been a bit damp inside waders after seeing that big ol fishie.
Probably one of my better days for smallie tubin'...especially considerin' that I was targeting perch instead of the other guys. Now, if I had been dropshotting for smallies, I probably couldn't have kept the perch away. Hm-m-m-m-m-m.
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