06-07-2003, 07:33 PM
[cool][size 1]Not anxious to fight the typical Saturday recreation crowd on Saguaro Lake, TubeBabe and I ditched work Friday afternoon and went fishin'. It was 102 degrees (air temp) when we launched our Fat Cats at 2 PM. Water temp was just under 84. Not a day for hypothermia.
There were some noisy kids in the water, and swimmers that had to splash out to see what we were doing, but otherwise a calm and restful trip. We had both caught a couple of yellow bass within the first few minutes and it looked like we might have a good afternoon.
At 2:20, I hung into a hard-fighting channel cat. It ran several times, taking yards of 6# line off my light baitcaster on a light spinning rod. I finally persuaded it to crawl in my net and then dive into my basket. It would prove to be the largest fish of the day, at 25" and 6.5#.
While I continued to catch yellow bass with some regularity, TubeBabe was missing a lot of strikes from the touchy fish. I finished the afternoon with somewhere between 35 to 40 yellow bass, and one more feisty channel cat of 5.1 pounds. TubeBabe estimated that she only caught about a dozen yellow bass. Between us, we kept about a dozen of the yellows for scampi style fillets.
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My two cats, on the seat, and a few yellows for the scampi pan.
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Two female channel cats, both about the same length. One weighed only 5.1 pounds, the other 6.5. The difference? The fish on the left is newly spawned out, while the one on the right is laden with roe. We have not caught any males for a couple of weeks, since they are locating nests and setting up housekeeping for the "kids".
P.S. This is TubeBabe's first posted digital picture. We now have "his and hers" matching digital cameras (Olympus D-550). Too bad she couldn't have had a better subject. Also too bad she didn't have any big fish for me to shoot for her. (Bwa-ha-ha-ha!)
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There were some noisy kids in the water, and swimmers that had to splash out to see what we were doing, but otherwise a calm and restful trip. We had both caught a couple of yellow bass within the first few minutes and it looked like we might have a good afternoon.
At 2:20, I hung into a hard-fighting channel cat. It ran several times, taking yards of 6# line off my light baitcaster on a light spinning rod. I finally persuaded it to crawl in my net and then dive into my basket. It would prove to be the largest fish of the day, at 25" and 6.5#.
While I continued to catch yellow bass with some regularity, TubeBabe was missing a lot of strikes from the touchy fish. I finished the afternoon with somewhere between 35 to 40 yellow bass, and one more feisty channel cat of 5.1 pounds. TubeBabe estimated that she only caught about a dozen yellow bass. Between us, we kept about a dozen of the yellows for scampi style fillets.
My two cats, on the seat, and a few yellows for the scampi pan.
Two female channel cats, both about the same length. One weighed only 5.1 pounds, the other 6.5. The difference? The fish on the left is newly spawned out, while the one on the right is laden with roe. We have not caught any males for a couple of weeks, since they are locating nests and setting up housekeeping for the "kids".
P.S. This is TubeBabe's first posted digital picture. We now have "his and hers" matching digital cameras (Olympus D-550). Too bad she couldn't have had a better subject. Also too bad she didn't have any big fish for me to shoot for her. (Bwa-ha-ha-ha!)
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