08-04-2019, 11:03 PM
4 Aug. Son and I had such a fun day yesterday, wife and I made the trip back to Lindon. Got a bit later start. And I guess I should let TD off the hook for his comment about the buoys messed with [sly]. They had been moved. By man or nature, I don't know, but just before we left today there was a guy on a wave runner out re-positioning them. TD, they are now in a fairly straight line from the east bank out to what I guess is the end of the pipe.
Wife and I went out to pretty close to where my son and I had ended up yesterday. Again, first fish boated was a whitie.
Fish hits came slower and less often, but we still beat the skunk back for the day. Used similar tactic today. One line on the bottom with cut white bass . One lighter line cast and retrieved with various Gulp plastics on a jig head, or a FLIG with small piece of WB or Gulp worm cast and let soak awhile in an old Bass anglers fan cast tactic. Had 2 hard solid hook ups and drag screaming runs on Fligs, that resulted in a couple minutes fight back toward the boat, then...SNAP ! Either line broke (6 lb. mono) or something toothy in that water decided it wanted the Flig and plastic more than it wanted to meet the inside of my net and boat. [:/]
The baited bottom lines were more productive and every Cat that hit one was well hooked and boated.
Wife boated a feisty lady Cat that looked as if it could give her a contest bump, so measured and photoed. 26 inches. Ahhh, but that 1/2 inch bump would not be needed.............[
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Then bite stopped for couple hours, the above mentioned guy on the wave runner showed up and re-positioned the buoys.
We had set our quittin time for 1200 noon, and had started to get boat semi straightened out about 1100 when wife's bottom line bent over , drag smoked out, and bad attitude Cat headed south towards Provo.
After a 5 minute tug fest and fight to keep Cat from going under the boat, it broke the surface and Ohh..........baby, you got a bigger bump fish.
Netted, boated, weighed in at 10 lb. 6 oz. measured and photoed at 29.0 inches, released with only injury a 5/0 circle hook wound thru its lip. The big gash in his tail was a pre-existing condition , so not covered by our attempt to do no (real) harm. [sly]
Another day ended well................now heading out to grill some steaks []
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Wife and I went out to pretty close to where my son and I had ended up yesterday. Again, first fish boated was a whitie.
Fish hits came slower and less often, but we still beat the skunk back for the day. Used similar tactic today. One line on the bottom with cut white bass . One lighter line cast and retrieved with various Gulp plastics on a jig head, or a FLIG with small piece of WB or Gulp worm cast and let soak awhile in an old Bass anglers fan cast tactic. Had 2 hard solid hook ups and drag screaming runs on Fligs, that resulted in a couple minutes fight back toward the boat, then...SNAP ! Either line broke (6 lb. mono) or something toothy in that water decided it wanted the Flig and plastic more than it wanted to meet the inside of my net and boat. [:/]
The baited bottom lines were more productive and every Cat that hit one was well hooked and boated.
Wife boated a feisty lady Cat that looked as if it could give her a contest bump, so measured and photoed. 26 inches. Ahhh, but that 1/2 inch bump would not be needed.............[
] Then bite stopped for couple hours, the above mentioned guy on the wave runner showed up and re-positioned the buoys.
We had set our quittin time for 1200 noon, and had started to get boat semi straightened out about 1100 when wife's bottom line bent over , drag smoked out, and bad attitude Cat headed south towards Provo.
After a 5 minute tug fest and fight to keep Cat from going under the boat, it broke the surface and Ohh..........baby, you got a bigger bump fish.
Netted, boated, weighed in at 10 lb. 6 oz. measured and photoed at 29.0 inches, released with only injury a 5/0 circle hook wound thru its lip. The big gash in his tail was a pre-existing condition , so not covered by our attempt to do no (real) harm. [sly]
Another day ended well................now heading out to grill some steaks [
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