Fishin' With Road in his New ODC 420

[TubeDude]

[cool][font "Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"][black][size 1][#0000ff]Man, I gotta get a job as a weatherman. Always wrong but never fired. It was supposed to be windy this morning so we cancelled a trip to Starvation. Instead, we met up with (the new and improved) road at Lindon. Hardly recognized him with his neatly trimmed facial hair and a businessman's haircut. Was almost embarassed about fishing with him. Almost.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The wind has been blowing A LOT down there, and it had cooled and clouded the water. That pushed a lot of the fish out of the harbor that were in there last week. We were on the water by 6:30...water temp a cool 63 at the ramp. This was our first "wet" (waderless) tubing trip of the year and the water was definitely cool to the touch.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]All three of us worked around different spots in the harbor on our way out. A few light hits and a couple of bitty white bass were all we had to show for the first hour's casting. Nothing on dragged bait either.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The early northeast breeze died to flat calm slick just after 7. We kept waiting for the "big blow". Never happened all day. I guess the W gods didn't recognize road either. No complaints except the fish were slower than usual.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I caught several white bass on the trip north from the harbor entrance. Mostly on small plastics but a couple on minnows being dragged for walleyes or cats. I got into an area with a lot of carp on the surface and boinked a few of them just for exercise...mine and theirs. Fun fun...better than snoozing in boredom. Had one 8 pound carp slurp in my walleye plastic and gave me a great tussle. I was so grateful I put her in my basket and invited her home to the bait board.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]About 8:30 we all started getting bit. Road and I both lost walleyes on minnows at about the same time. Inexperienced fish. Didn't know how to hang on. TubeBabe landed a channel cat and lost a couple more. I banged a couple of bullheads and finally got a nice 23" cat...bookend to the one TubeBabe had just caught.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Then we all took turns exercising and turning loose some larger cats. TubeBabe and Road were fishing shallow and had a few big fish wrap them in the brush. I had a biggun that tried to strip all the line off my reel before just opening its mouth and spitting the hook.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]TubeBabe did manage to outfox a 27" 9.5# dark female channel cat that had her wrapped in the vegetation. She worked it loose and it turned out to be our biggest landed of the day.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Road ended up with the same 4 species I did...white bass, channel cats, bullheads and carp. Some of the channels were smaller than the bullheads.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]A northwest breeze came up just after ten and fishing died...as usual. Not a heavy breeze but it just shut down the action. We all kicked and fished our way slowly back inside the harbor, and around the harbor, without stickign another fish. Water temp was right at 70 when we hit the ramp about 1 PM.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]It was good to fish with Marty again. He seems to just about have his new Creek Company ODC 420 tube all figured out now. Says he put his pontoon up for sale since he plans to be doing a lot more tubing in his new ride.[/#0000ff]
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[Dusty_T]

Road -- congrats on the new ride (i knew you had good taste) -- sorry about the court date or wedding that you had to go to that caused the shearing - don't worry, it will grow back and you will be cool again []

Looks like you both need to find out what TubeBabe is secretly putting on her hook when you all look away.....(TubeBabe: If you want to send me a Private Message I can keep a secret []

Looked like a nice day to be out. As for me I have been getting schooled in kittie (and crappie) fishing by my 4 year old with a Tigger pole -- so I don't have any room to talk at all.






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[tubeN2]

That's the way to Git er Done. Congrats on beating Mother Nature at her game.[cool]
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[zonker]

Way to go guys. Those are nice fish.

z~
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[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]Since you have met and fished with road, you know what he looked like before he "lost weight". For the benefit of those who don't know Marty...up close and pers'nal...here is what he looked like a week ago, on another trip.[/#0000ff]
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[road]

Thanks Dusty_T, not only do I have good taste, but I keep good company. Don't be sorry about the loose of my sort of locks and beard. It was a work thing. I had to smoochze with some clients. Just didn't feel right meetig up with them looking like I escaped from the Grizzly Adams TV show. if ya know what I mean. Besides I kind of like this look for now! Great little float it is.
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[road]

And now I'm just another pretty face in the crowd.
Shirt, tie, and a jacket and I look like I belong in the board room. Oh wait I'll be there tomorrow .... Hope I remember how to act LOL.
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[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]Don't pick your nose (while anyone is watching) and don't carry in any old bait in your pocket.[/#0000ff]
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[smallmouth89]

Pat,

I can't even read your thread starting message because of that ??"><>">@##%%$ sidebar. The opportunity to click to reply is totally overlaid by this thing and inaccessible. I really don't want to change my display settings to accomodate this annoyance. Any other suggestions?
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[tubeN2]

Hey Smallmouth89. I guess that goes to show by what we mean when the forum rules state 450pixel wide on the pictures that mean 450. Anyways, here is a copy of what was posted:

[font "Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"][black][size 1][font "Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"][black][size 1][font "Verdana,Arial,Helvetica"][black][size 1][#0000ff]Man, I gotta get a job as a weatherman. Always wrong but never fired. It was supposed to be windy this morning so we cancelled a trip to Starvation. Instead, we met up with (the new and improved) road at Lindon. Hardly recognized him with his neatly trimmed facial hair and a businessman's haircut. Was almost embarassed about fishing with him. Almost.[/#0000ff]

[#0000ff]The wind has been blowing A LOT down there, and it had cooled and clouded the water. That pushed a lot of the fish out of the harbor that were in there last week. We were on the water by 6:30...water temp a cool 63 at the ramp. This was our first "wet" (waderless) tubing trip of the year and the water was definitely cool to the touch.[/#0000ff]

[#0000ff]All three of us worked around different spots in the harbor on our way out. A few light hits and a couple of bitty white bass were all we had to show for the first hour's casting. Nothing on dragged bait either.[/#0000ff]

[#0000ff]The early northeast breeze died to flat calm slick just after 7. We kept waiting for the "big blow". Never happened all day. I guess the W gods didn't recognize road either. No complaints except the fish were slower than usual.[/#0000ff]

[#0000ff]I caught several white bass on the trip north from the harbor entrance. Mostly on small plastics but a couple on minnows being dragged for walleyes or cats. I got into an area with a lot of carp on the surface and boinked a few of them just for exercise...mine and theirs. Fun fun...better than snoozing in boredom. Had one 8 pound carp slurp in my walleye plastic and gave me a great tussle. I was so grateful I put her in my basket and invited her home to the bait board.[/#0000ff]

[#0000ff]About 8:30 we all started getting bit. Road and I both lost walleyes on minnows at about the same time. Inexperienced fish. Didn't know how to hang on. TubeBabe landed a channel cat and lost a couple more. I banged a couple of bullheads and finally got a nice 23" cat...bookend to the one TubeBabe had just caught.[/#0000ff]

[#0000ff]Then we all took turns exercising and turning loose some larger cats. TubeBabe and Road were fishing shallow and had a few big fish wrap them in the brush. I had a biggun that tried to strip all the line off my reel before just opening its mouth and spitting the hook.[/#0000ff]

[#0000ff]TubeBabe did manage to outfox a 27" 9.5# dark female channel cat that had her wrapped in the vegetation. She worked it loose and it turned out to be our biggest landed of the day.[/#0000ff]

[#0000ff]Road ended up with the same 4 species I did...white bass, channel cats, bullheads and carp. Some of the channels were smaller than the bullheads.[/#0000ff]

[#0000ff]A northwest breeze came up just after ten and fishing died...as usual. Not a heavy breeze but it just shut down the action. We all kicked and fished our way slowly back inside the harbor, and around the harbor, without stickign another fish. Water temp was right at 70 when we hit the ramp about 1 PM.[/#0000ff]

[#0000ff]It was good to fish with Marty again. He seems to just about have his new Creek Company ODC 420 tube all figured out now. Says he put his pontoon up for sale since he plans to be doing a lot more tubing in his new ride.[/#0000ff] [/size][/black][/font][/size][/black][/font][/size][/black][/font]

[smallmouth89]

Thanks TubN2,
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[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]Sorry, my bad. I resized it to 450 pixels but it did not "take". I removed the pic for now. Just attached.[/#0000ff]
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[road]

I can't pick my nose?! I suppose that means no bupin or fartin either. Man this is gonna be tougher than I thought.
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[flygoddess]

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LMAO![laugh][laugh][laugh][laugh][laugh]
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[tubeN2]

Hey Sis!

Some words of wisdom that I learned as a wee lad.:::

"You can pick your friends and you can pick your nose, but you can't pick your friend's nose". [laugh]
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[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]Hey...be a man and deal with it. Whatever you refrain from doing in polite society...and save up...will be that much greater when you are finally able to do it for your own enjoyment. But, then again, some things are so good they really should be shared.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We are talking about fishing, aren't we?[/#0000ff]
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