06-25-2020, 05:10 AM
(This post was last modified: 06-25-2020, 03:19 PM by fast_randy.)
It was great to see everyone this weekend. And the beach was good for me again. It almost always is. We love each other. Lol. I took 3 trips down from Idaho this year. I don't do night fishing so I'm done for the year. But as you all know LB is my favorite place in the world. In three trips or basically 6 half days of fishing I landed 64 fish. I've kept track of the time and the size of each, and the last two trips I weighed the big ones. I thought before I got my new fish scale that I was catching some 10 pounders but, I know now we're only 8. But they felt like 10, I swear.
I caught most of them on Half a night crawler threaded up on to the line with a medium size shrimp. But I love using fresh carp. I !earned years ago, after the Mortensen brothers, starting with half a night crawler threaded up onto the line, leaving half of the worm dangling, and moving, added to the catch.
This trip I caught 4 in the weeds,a double and then one on a shinner minnow, and it slowed down so I hit Bird. I got a small male on the South Side and then nothing. So I moved to the North Side and tried some fresh chicken breast chunks marinated in WD-40. And at 12:30, 12:35,12:40 and at 12:55 the biggest yet a 24" 5 1/2 pounds. All on chicken breast chunks marinated in WD-40. And then it slowed a little so I put a fresh shrimp on and got more. 14 for the day, caught and released.
So I hit the weeds Wednesday morning after meeting for the first time BLK. He headed for Bird, me for the trees. For it is the trees I fish. The weeds are a solid barrier until you get to the trees. And then the trees create the openings in the weeds. But there is a fence line I start at. And I can usually get several there. And then with my electric motor I work my way back towards LB hitting the open pockets. But I never had to move Wednesday. I got all eight at the fence line. I had barely got there and had a couple cats. But then something big took my shrimp. A 20 lb. Carp. And I used night crawler threaded up on the line and fresh carp meat to catch rest of my limit.
I was a little disappointed when my new Bubba rechargeable knife died at 7 fish. Good thing it comes with two batteries. I think I had them both charged up.
I caught most of them on Half a night crawler threaded up on to the line with a medium size shrimp. But I love using fresh carp. I !earned years ago, after the Mortensen brothers, starting with half a night crawler threaded up onto the line, leaving half of the worm dangling, and moving, added to the catch.
This trip I caught 4 in the weeds,a double and then one on a shinner minnow, and it slowed down so I hit Bird. I got a small male on the South Side and then nothing. So I moved to the North Side and tried some fresh chicken breast chunks marinated in WD-40. And at 12:30, 12:35,12:40 and at 12:55 the biggest yet a 24" 5 1/2 pounds. All on chicken breast chunks marinated in WD-40. And then it slowed a little so I put a fresh shrimp on and got more. 14 for the day, caught and released.
So I hit the weeds Wednesday morning after meeting for the first time BLK. He headed for Bird, me for the trees. For it is the trees I fish. The weeds are a solid barrier until you get to the trees. And then the trees create the openings in the weeds. But there is a fence line I start at. And I can usually get several there. And then with my electric motor I work my way back towards LB hitting the open pockets. But I never had to move Wednesday. I got all eight at the fence line. I had barely got there and had a couple cats. But then something big took my shrimp. A 20 lb. Carp. And I used night crawler threaded up on the line and fresh carp meat to catch rest of my limit.
I was a little disappointed when my new Bubba rechargeable knife died at 7 fish. Good thing it comes with two batteries. I think I had them both charged up.