07-14-2009, 05:19 PM
The wife and I both had Monday off so we decided to head to Rockport Sunday eve. and spend the night. Got camp set up and launched about 5pm. Caught and released 4 fish and then around 6 it clouded up and the wind started blowing, when the lightning started we decided to head in. We were closer to our campground than the marina so we headed there. Before we landed the wind was blowing in earnest and we were getting soaked,( I only have a little aluminum boat.) Well within minutes of getting to shore the little squall turned into a typhoon,the waves were as big I have ever seen on the lake and it was raining sideways. I pulled the boat up onshore as far as I could to try to keep it from being beaten to death on the rocks, and then the waves started coming over the transom and swamped the little thing. At this point my wife pointed out that the stuff I keep in a plastic box,along with everything else, in the rear of the boat was starting to float away! I grabbed the net and started rescueing stuff, bug repelent, sunscreen, worm box, etc. managed to save everything except one of those plastic coated lake maps and a small first aide kit. Within 30 minutes the lake was calm and the sun was out again. The problem now was that when the the boat settled/sank, the top of the transom was about an inch lower than the lake level. Managed to pull it back into the lake a bit making it a little more level which shifted some of the water forward and got the transom up above lake level. Bailed her out and went back out and caught more fish in the end. My wife made the comment as I was bailing that we were making a memory. I like her attitude. Also fished Monday morning. So much for the story now the report.
Fishing was good to excellent, with a fish on every 15 to 20 minutes. Caught around 20 or so, kept 4, 2 for our dinner and 2 for my parents.
The majority of fish were only 10 to 15 feet deep, with one occasionaly down 20 to 25 feet.Trolled in 30 to 50 feet of water between the Twin Cove and Crandall campgrounds. My wife fished with a worm and popgear, and I used a redbladded/red beaded wedding ring tipped with worm, used leaded line only going out about a color and a half. I spoke to a guy at the campground who also had good success drift fishing near the inlet in about 18-20 feet of water using rainbow powerbait. With the exception of one 18 incher, all fish were 14-15 inch clones, but had good girth, the 18" was especially fat, like to old Stawberry football fish. All were rainbows, "slimmers" in BFT speak.
Sorry to make my first posting so long, but thought that alot of you BFT people could relate.
Remmember, the fishing is ALWAYS good! It's just that sometimes the catching sucks.
dj
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Fishing was good to excellent, with a fish on every 15 to 20 minutes. Caught around 20 or so, kept 4, 2 for our dinner and 2 for my parents.
The majority of fish were only 10 to 15 feet deep, with one occasionaly down 20 to 25 feet.Trolled in 30 to 50 feet of water between the Twin Cove and Crandall campgrounds. My wife fished with a worm and popgear, and I used a redbladded/red beaded wedding ring tipped with worm, used leaded line only going out about a color and a half. I spoke to a guy at the campground who also had good success drift fishing near the inlet in about 18-20 feet of water using rainbow powerbait. With the exception of one 18 incher, all fish were 14-15 inch clones, but had good girth, the 18" was especially fat, like to old Stawberry football fish. All were rainbows, "slimmers" in BFT speak.
Sorry to make my first posting so long, but thought that alot of you BFT people could relate.
Remmember, the fishing is ALWAYS good! It's just that sometimes the catching sucks.
dj
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