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[cool][#0000ff]My old fishing buddy LloydE is so passionate about walleyes I have tried to get him to change his user name to WaLloyd. No go. But, didn't take much to get him to go to Starvation this morning. Just the merest chance of a shot at a wallie is enough to keep him awake all night before a trip. He is definitely worthy of the title of fisherman.[/#0000ff]
[#0000ff]Figured we would do a sneak attack on Bunny Gulch. We used the light of the bright moon to find a good launch spot and hoped to sneak in some fishing before the forecast "breezes" kicked in. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Had sunrise launch services about 6:30. Light breeze with 55 degree air temp and 67 degree water temp. Clear sky. No wind, no clouds. So far so good.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I let Lloyd get launched first so he could get the first fish jinx out of the way. He said he didn't believe in that. Maybe he should have. He did get the first fish...and not much more than dinks the rest of the day.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I started near the rock pile and my first good tug was from a smallette. First species. Then a couple of dinko perch. Second species. Next came two or three wee wallies. Third species. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I was just thinking that now all I needed for a "grand slime" (4 species) was a chub or a trout. Then I kicked my way into a 28 foot depth in the middle of the channel and my tandem jig rig was brutally attacked. Fought too hard for a wallie. Maybe a smallie. Nopeski. A troutski. Fought hard and took line off the drag but did not jump as the rainbows have been doing in cooler water. Fourth species. Grand slime.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Caught two more feisty bows in the deep zone. One more on the deadly RC Killer jig (red/chartreuse) and one on a dropshot weightless white tube jig. That one arranged his own release by squirting out my hands just as I removed the jig. Houdini Troutski.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Covered a lot of water at different depths. Saw a lot more fish on sonar than I felt on the end of my line. We both caught at least 1.37 grundles of dinko perchos. Donated lots of worms today. But we both caught a few keeper perch. Also got some wee wallies...from 6" to 16". Although one of the bitty tykes tried to pretend he was bigger and stretched hisself out on the ruler to 20". Got quite a few footlongs and some teen-incher wallies. Only kept a couple of the biggest for some wallie scampi and noodles. Kept 2 out the three trout. My sis in law will love those.[/#0000ff]

[#0000ff]Quiet on the water today. No wind and no boats. Well, maybe a couple of far off bottom bouncers and some guy with a noisy tin boat and oars. But it was really nice all day until we got off the water about 1:30. Water temp just under 70.[/#0000ff]

[#0000ff]Always good fishing with Lloyd. He did manage a few wallettes. But, to him A WALLEYE IS A WALLEYE IS A WALLEYE. He was smiling.[/#0000ff]
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As I recall about a month ago there was one spot across the bay that had a lot of weeds. Have they spread out further? Looks like a great day. I need to get back there at least one more time before the cold hits and I end up going other places or playing trains.[cool] Maybe tuesday!!![]
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Great post as usual. Never fails to amaze me how you hook up with that vast array of fishies. What kinda camera do you use & where do you keep it while fishing....
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[cool][#0000ff]Fish were scattered all over...from 12 feet to 30 feet. Best depth for larger perch and walleyes seemed to be about 22 feet. The area across the channel held only dinksters today.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Tuesday is a possibility. Let's see what Mama Nature cooks up for us.[/#0000ff]
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[quote Bassassin714]Great post as usual. Never fails to amaze me how you hook up with that vast array of fishies. What kinda camera do you use & where do you keep it while fishing....[/quote]

[cool][#0000ff]I am still using an old Olympus D-550...about six years old. Recently bought a replacement...a Pentax Optio W90...but have not put it fully into use yet.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I carry my camera around my neck on a wide soft stretch band. Drops down inside my chest pouch when not it use and will not fall into the water if I lean forward. Always there for "photo ops". Just gotta keep aware of the possibilities and take time away from fishing to get the shots.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I have a couple of different photo software programs that help me quickly clean up, edit, crop and resize the pics for posting.[/#0000ff]
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Multi species is always fun. [fishon]
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[cool][#0000ff]Definitely. Most of the waters I fish have at least 3 to 5 predator species that can usually be taken on the same lures and presentations. It is always a goal on any given trip to see how many species I can score on the same setup.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]My freshwater record is about 6 species on one trip. Happened on Salmon Falls Creek Reservoir, south of Twin Falls, Idaho a couple of years ago. Rainbow trout, smallmouth bass, crappie, walleye, yellow perch and squawfish.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]When I lived in Arizona and regularly fished down in the Sea of Cortez I sometimes lost count of the number of species on any given day. There were swarms of fish of many species around the inshore rocks and reefs. It was common to catch hundreds of fish a day...with upwards of 30 different species represented. AND...they all loved flies too. [/#0000ff]
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I rhink my recod is 5 and that was several years ago on lake powell. Crappie, Green Sunfish, striper, largemouth and smallmouth bass.[cool] It is always fun to catch multi species of any fish on a given day.[]
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