07-09-2013, 11:06 PM
Spent a couple beautiful days on the water at Starvation over the 4th. My hunting buddy and his family came over from Elko. He has 2 boys, an 11 year old and a 16 year old that is autistic.
The older boy doesn't like to get up too early so we let him sleep late the first morning while dad, I and the younger boy headed out. The weather was fantastic after enduring the scorching triple digit temps in the valley for the previous week plus we arrived to overcast skies and 67 degrees with a 5mph breeze, [cool]
The boys had never caught walleye so that was the main focus but they wanted to catch other species as well. We tried throwing cranks and jigs early and picked up a couple fish but nothing too hot so we decided to start covering water trolling.
By 11:00 Jeff had put 8 walleye, 4 rainbows, uncountable small mouth, and a 27 inch brown in the boat. The weather was still great so we called big brother and got the whole crew out on the boat including my wife and the boys' mother as well. The fishing continued to be amazing with the second boy also completing the Starvation Slam at about 3:00 with his final fish being a beautiful 23 inch brown.
I'd only personally scored the slam once myself and was amazed we were able to do it twice in the same day!
We fished another day and a half and did well each day but no more browns. It was a great time and the boys really enjoyed the experience. Young Jeff even caught a 12lb carp that smashed a perch Shad rap on the surface as we were letting it back out after clearing weeds from it! I've caught carp many times on artificials, especially jigs, but this fish had the front treble burried in it's mouth. There was no doubt he thought he was getting a perch breakfast!..
Starvation water temps are running around 67 in the morning to just over 70 in the afternoon. I imagine with no wind they may even climb higher in the afternoon on the surface.
We caught fish all over the lake, mainly pulling over the tops of the weeds.
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The older boy doesn't like to get up too early so we let him sleep late the first morning while dad, I and the younger boy headed out. The weather was fantastic after enduring the scorching triple digit temps in the valley for the previous week plus we arrived to overcast skies and 67 degrees with a 5mph breeze, [cool]
The boys had never caught walleye so that was the main focus but they wanted to catch other species as well. We tried throwing cranks and jigs early and picked up a couple fish but nothing too hot so we decided to start covering water trolling.
By 11:00 Jeff had put 8 walleye, 4 rainbows, uncountable small mouth, and a 27 inch brown in the boat. The weather was still great so we called big brother and got the whole crew out on the boat including my wife and the boys' mother as well. The fishing continued to be amazing with the second boy also completing the Starvation Slam at about 3:00 with his final fish being a beautiful 23 inch brown.
I'd only personally scored the slam once myself and was amazed we were able to do it twice in the same day!
We fished another day and a half and did well each day but no more browns. It was a great time and the boys really enjoyed the experience. Young Jeff even caught a 12lb carp that smashed a perch Shad rap on the surface as we were letting it back out after clearing weeds from it! I've caught carp many times on artificials, especially jigs, but this fish had the front treble burried in it's mouth. There was no doubt he thought he was getting a perch breakfast!..
Starvation water temps are running around 67 in the morning to just over 70 in the afternoon. I imagine with no wind they may even climb higher in the afternoon on the surface.
We caught fish all over the lake, mainly pulling over the tops of the weeds.
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