08-03-2008, 04:09 AM
[#000000]If you haven't taken the kids to Newton yet this year it's about time. My oldest and youngest son hit the lake at 0630 in the rowboat with me and had nothing but fun all day long until 3:30 when we had to leave. We caught some fair LMB, some NICE green sunfish, lots of pesky perch, several OK crappie and had a few incidents with the Tiger Muskies - on with the fish stories.
My youngest son had five fish in the boat before his much older brother or I even had a bite so we decided the best jigging action was to haphazardly wave your pole around wildly like a third grader. I followed his lead and seemed to do better.
I forgot a stringer or something to keep all of my gradeschooler's fish on so I took three-and-a-half-feet of ten-pound stren and started stringing his fish on that. His next fish was a fat eleven-inch LMB so I cut another length of line to tether it to the boat. A few minutes later Musky incident #1.
We were just minding our own business, the mono tethered string of assorted crappie and perch were listlessly flitting along with the boat when there was a HUGE lightening flash shooting out from the depths as we glimpsed encompassing jaws T-Bone the eleven inch bass and a resounding BANG from the ten pound mono resonating the hull of the aluminum craft as it snapped like high tension wire tied to a feight train. Yikes, I was always a little nervous for the water skiers after that-but not that much. I was impressed it took out the biggest fish of the half dozen options it had.
About ten-thirty things started to slow so we tried changing things up a little. We had seen another Tiger surface feeding up against a weed bed not far from where we were and figured it chased everything not tied down to the next county but being in a rowboat we just moved to the next point and tied half a worm on to our jigs drop shot style and Oh what a blast. At one time I had a LMB on the smokey sparkle a pesky perch on the crawler and my son brought in a little crappie all at the same time. Three species two poles one cast.
Ever almost catch a Tiger Musky drop-shotting? I had something big hit then thought it was snagged up until we saw this torpedo looking thing swimming with it straight towards the boat, looked at our twenty four inch net, shrugged our shoulders, then it tail danced, brought it to within four feet of the boat, more tail dancing, dived under the boat, tail danced the other side and gone. Way cool. Take the kids. Go fish it!
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My youngest son had five fish in the boat before his much older brother or I even had a bite so we decided the best jigging action was to haphazardly wave your pole around wildly like a third grader. I followed his lead and seemed to do better.
I forgot a stringer or something to keep all of my gradeschooler's fish on so I took three-and-a-half-feet of ten-pound stren and started stringing his fish on that. His next fish was a fat eleven-inch LMB so I cut another length of line to tether it to the boat. A few minutes later Musky incident #1.
We were just minding our own business, the mono tethered string of assorted crappie and perch were listlessly flitting along with the boat when there was a HUGE lightening flash shooting out from the depths as we glimpsed encompassing jaws T-Bone the eleven inch bass and a resounding BANG from the ten pound mono resonating the hull of the aluminum craft as it snapped like high tension wire tied to a feight train. Yikes, I was always a little nervous for the water skiers after that-but not that much. I was impressed it took out the biggest fish of the half dozen options it had.
About ten-thirty things started to slow so we tried changing things up a little. We had seen another Tiger surface feeding up against a weed bed not far from where we were and figured it chased everything not tied down to the next county but being in a rowboat we just moved to the next point and tied half a worm on to our jigs drop shot style and Oh what a blast. At one time I had a LMB on the smokey sparkle a pesky perch on the crawler and my son brought in a little crappie all at the same time. Three species two poles one cast.
Ever almost catch a Tiger Musky drop-shotting? I had something big hit then thought it was snagged up until we saw this torpedo looking thing swimming with it straight towards the boat, looked at our twenty four inch net, shrugged our shoulders, then it tail danced, brought it to within four feet of the boat, more tail dancing, dived under the boat, tail danced the other side and gone. Way cool. Take the kids. Go fish it!
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