Willard Bay trip 17 - good day

[Tin-Can]

Launched out of south marina, as usual, at 723 a.m.  don't remember the air temp. but there was almost no breeze, and seems the midges and skeeters have recovered from their wind damage last week. 



Did a full speed run straight out to the area that has been so kind to me the past couple weeks.  Water was so calm, didn't even drop the anchor. Got my 2 lines baited up and out.  And at 8:00 a.m. had first cookie cutter on the line, then in the boat. Had no intent to keep anything today, and the Cats obliged by not swallowing the hooks.... So Cat#1 CPR.


    Cat # 1

8 minutes later his twin brother decided to visit also, and at 8:12 a.m. he was also boated and CPR'ed. Then in another 8 minutes one rod bent over and drag really screamed out. Thought I had either a Wiper (no such luck) or a Carp. 
Got the culprit to the net and into the boat, was a cookie cutter Cat that must have "tail swated" the bait cuz the bait was up the line and the hook was thru his tail. Either that or he was a Navy Aviator Cat that likes tail hooks.  

       

       Cat # 2                            Cat # 3  tail hooked                       

The bug population got to be bad enough that I figured maybe I could reduce it some by trolling.  So I rigged up my lines for slow trolling shrimp and headed in the general direction of the island. 
Just after starting to troll, the breeze improved some and reduced the bugs alot.  So I shut the motor down again and "road" the wind drift.  After about 90 minutes of steady drift in a general south-west direction, another pole did the screaming drag thing again. Now this one had some shoulders and put up fight. Hope it wasn't another member of the "tail hook" club.  

NOPE.  A bigger Cat with the hook right where it belonged, in the corner of his mouth. 

      
     Cat # 4                                                                                                                   # 4 Cat location and Wiper spot
This isn't a contest Cat. I measured it just for grins. It could have been the 3rd Cat for my wife, but she is working.....  . 

Continued drifting, with nothing more. Reeled in one line getting ready to move to different location. Started reeling in second line, hmmmmmmmm.............some extra weight on that one. But not much fight. 
Hey.......my FIRST WIPER this year  !  And probably his first hit on a hook, had not yet learned how to take off for the north marina.  

 

Young Wiper  CPR

Moved around down in my original spot, boated a small kitty to make it 5 Cats and 1 Wiper CPRed.   



And that was all she wrote.   But an enjoyable day.