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I had a couple days off work so I gave Monday to the Mrs. and helped out around the house. Then I headed to Renegade on Tuesday morning.

I was in the tube and on the water at 6:00am. The moon was hanging low and huge in the west and the air temp was in the teens. For the first 30 minutes or so I had the bay to myself. I could hear elk bugling in almost every direction; even saw a couple scampering up the hill as the sun began to peek over the eastern hills.

Mornings just don't get much more beautiful than that.

Unfortunately, it seems that the full moon had the fish partying all night and they were probably hungover. I got nibbles all morning, but only 2 serious hits. While it was still dark I used a glow-in-the-dark jig with a little chub on it. After sunup I switched to a pearl jig with the chub; both seemed to get the same reactions. Nibbles, but few serious buyers.

I landed the first serious buyer - a 22" Rainbow - an absolutely gorgeous fish.

The second serious one chased and played with my jig all the way to the surface, but never latched on.

By 9:00 even the nibbles were getting more rare and by 9:30 I decided I better head home and be a responsible husband.

I got home to a warm greeting from the Mrs. followed by "You're home early! I wasn't expecting you until 2:00 or 3:00."

Darn! I could have fished for another 2 or 3 hours!
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Yea, you should have stayed. The fishing only got better later in the morning. We were just East of you jigging and it got good from 10am to Noon. Not red hot, but decent.

Did you try any flies at all?

I am going back up on Friday with my toon boat and try out some flies. We will see if we can get their mouths open.

Thanks for the post.
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You really should have stayed...WEE meaning 3 of us caught about thirty from 7 to noon, then slowed down until about 2:30 then BAMB....Using white tubs with a bit of minnow on it we up our take to 91. They would hit out on the cast and keep hitting until you got them. If they didn't hook up on the reel in we would jig them at the boat until one of us would hook them. We also lost alot, and I mean alot, at the boat or somewhere in between. The secret was to move the jig in slow up and down motion pausing on the up take. Kind of like jiging on the cast. Was a great day and the sun rise was as discribed. It was a fantastic day on the berry. Sorry no pictures THEFISHNUT
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