06-20-2018, 09:17 PM
[#0000ff]Met up with BLK and his Kat Krew about 6ish at the Lincoln Beach (Utah Lake) ramp. They worked together like a pit crew at the races and were launched and out the channel long before I was able to fire up my electric motor to hit the lake behind them.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Air temp a cool 50. Water temp 70...rising a couple of degrees by noon. A bit murky because of the winds but calmed down and cleared a bit by midday.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Trolled a tandem jig rig out to my chosen cat venue. Had a couple of hits and landed a small white bass. Later I turned it into a 25" mama cat.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Had a newly made "gorilla rod" to try out. Plus I had some new fins...after donating one of my yellow ones to the fish gods on a previous trip. First cast with a large chub minnow on the new rod got me a quick bendo...on my first of several two footers...or bigger. Turned out to be a good day for gorillas.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]One of the 25 inchers turned out to be a real challenge to get to the tube...and in the net. At the end of a long cast and a bit of a run with the bait, I set the hook and the bail on my Okuma Epixor reel came loose on one end. No quick fix. It was broken on the inside. So I had to pump and then wind the line on the spool by hand. Took awhile and almost lost a finger a couple of times when the fish became impatient with my lousy retrieval method. But it eventually crawled into the net and posed for a picture alongside the reel it had broken.
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[#0000ff]Only five or six fish were under two feet long. Another 12-15 were from 24 to 28 inches. Most of the bigger fish were dark daddy cats...some showing signs of "tough love" from the recent spawn fest. Some of the larger fish were females. And some still had eggs swelling their midsections.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Most of my fish came from about 8' of water. I wandered in and out of deeper and shallower water but the 8' zone seemed to have the most active cats.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]BLK and Krew tried several different areas. They also caught fish, including one about 27"...not by BLK. He's a good grampa. He lets his Gkids catch the most and biggest. Whatta guy.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]This was a quick put-together trip to try to take advantage of a no-W forecast day. It worked. Very little breeze all morning. We were all over-funned and off the water by noon.
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[#0000ff]Air temp a cool 50. Water temp 70...rising a couple of degrees by noon. A bit murky because of the winds but calmed down and cleared a bit by midday.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Trolled a tandem jig rig out to my chosen cat venue. Had a couple of hits and landed a small white bass. Later I turned it into a 25" mama cat.[/#0000ff]
[#0000ff] [/#0000ff]
[#0000ff]Had a newly made "gorilla rod" to try out. Plus I had some new fins...after donating one of my yellow ones to the fish gods on a previous trip. First cast with a large chub minnow on the new rod got me a quick bendo...on my first of several two footers...or bigger. Turned out to be a good day for gorillas.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]One of the 25 inchers turned out to be a real challenge to get to the tube...and in the net. At the end of a long cast and a bit of a run with the bait, I set the hook and the bail on my Okuma Epixor reel came loose on one end. No quick fix. It was broken on the inside. So I had to pump and then wind the line on the spool by hand. Took awhile and almost lost a finger a couple of times when the fish became impatient with my lousy retrieval method. But it eventually crawled into the net and posed for a picture alongside the reel it had broken.
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[#0000ff]Only five or six fish were under two feet long. Another 12-15 were from 24 to 28 inches. Most of the bigger fish were dark daddy cats...some showing signs of "tough love" from the recent spawn fest. Some of the larger fish were females. And some still had eggs swelling their midsections.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Most of my fish came from about 8' of water. I wandered in and out of deeper and shallower water but the 8' zone seemed to have the most active cats.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]BLK and Krew tried several different areas. They also caught fish, including one about 27"...not by BLK. He's a good grampa. He lets his Gkids catch the most and biggest. Whatta guy.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]This was a quick put-together trip to try to take advantage of a no-W forecast day. It worked. Very little breeze all morning. We were all over-funned and off the water by noon.
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