08-23-2009, 08:57 PM
I spent Saturday evening at Willard tubing the kids and skipping them across the surface of the water. Tried trolling my ten year old for a while with no bites (he thought he was learning to water ski).
Saw a fish crash the surface while my son was trying to get his waterskis on and quickly threw a silver castmaster at it and got that fish.
Later at Sunset we cast and trolled behind the ski boat landing one more wiper and losing a monster. It had my 8 year old, Ethan's kiddie pole bent in half and I amazed it didn't break. It took all the restraint I had not to take his pole and try to bring it in myself. I did help him with the fish when it went under the boat and got a feel for how heavy it was. Ethan really wanted that fish but his spincast reel wasn't making any headway just twisting the line. I told him to stop reeling and just hold the rod to try and tire him out. I went back to throwing a clouser on my fly rod and my oldest went back to fishing with a rattletrap. The fish somehow finally threw the lure (or it pulled out of a fin or tail more likely).
As heavy and strong as it was it may have been foul hooked. Anyway all hits and fish came on that kiddie pole with a 1 ounze silver castmaster. Land 2 wipers while only fishing about an hour total. No real boils to speak of. Did see 5 or so fish crash the surface for about 5 seconds just outside of the range of my fly rod. Great day and the shad inside the fat bellies of those fish are about an inch long if you want to match the hatch.
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Saw a fish crash the surface while my son was trying to get his waterskis on and quickly threw a silver castmaster at it and got that fish.
Later at Sunset we cast and trolled behind the ski boat landing one more wiper and losing a monster. It had my 8 year old, Ethan's kiddie pole bent in half and I amazed it didn't break. It took all the restraint I had not to take his pole and try to bring it in myself. I did help him with the fish when it went under the boat and got a feel for how heavy it was. Ethan really wanted that fish but his spincast reel wasn't making any headway just twisting the line. I told him to stop reeling and just hold the rod to try and tire him out. I went back to throwing a clouser on my fly rod and my oldest went back to fishing with a rattletrap. The fish somehow finally threw the lure (or it pulled out of a fin or tail more likely).
As heavy and strong as it was it may have been foul hooked. Anyway all hits and fish came on that kiddie pole with a 1 ounze silver castmaster. Land 2 wipers while only fishing about an hour total. No real boils to speak of. Did see 5 or so fish crash the surface for about 5 seconds just outside of the range of my fly rod. Great day and the shad inside the fat bellies of those fish are about an inch long if you want to match the hatch.
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