07-23-2023, 02:55 AM
My youngest daughter went with me today, which was a huge surprise. I've nearly quit asking because teenagers seem to always have another agenda. It's always the early start that they hate, but she agreed today. Arrived at the lake close to 6 am, prepped and launched a llitle after 6.
I wanted to see if we could get a slotbuster today, and we darn near made it happen. I put on some big lures and stacked the downrigger on the 1st side. Went to the other side and let out a BIG quikfish, put it on the rigger and dropped it 10 ft down. I grabbed the the other pole, turned to start getting it ready to be stacked, and noticed the line had popped out of the release on the 1st line. Grumbling I thought I must not had set it far enough into the release. So I grabbed the pole out of the holder, started to reel, and realized there was something heavy on the other end. I've caught a lot of nice fish over the years but my daughter hasn't, so I handed the rod over and enjoyed the fun. She turned to me and said "Oh this is fighting hard!" A short time later we had the beautiful cutt in the net and in the boat. She was so excited. I knew it was going to be close to 22", but fell an inch short. Still a great fish for Lost Creek, and was successfully released after a few pictures.
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We drug the big stuff for a while all the way up into the back, but nothing but smaller fish on the big rapalas and no more hits on the quikfish.
We switched over to koke gear and caught a lot of small cutts, a few rainbows, and a few kokes that we brought home. We probably caught around 25 fish or so today.
The lake got busy with boats, kayak and paddleboards the later it got. We pulled out before noon, and the ramp area was packed with vehicles.
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I wanted to see if we could get a slotbuster today, and we darn near made it happen. I put on some big lures and stacked the downrigger on the 1st side. Went to the other side and let out a BIG quikfish, put it on the rigger and dropped it 10 ft down. I grabbed the the other pole, turned to start getting it ready to be stacked, and noticed the line had popped out of the release on the 1st line. Grumbling I thought I must not had set it far enough into the release. So I grabbed the pole out of the holder, started to reel, and realized there was something heavy on the other end. I've caught a lot of nice fish over the years but my daughter hasn't, so I handed the rod over and enjoyed the fun. She turned to me and said "Oh this is fighting hard!" A short time later we had the beautiful cutt in the net and in the boat. She was so excited. I knew it was going to be close to 22", but fell an inch short. Still a great fish for Lost Creek, and was successfully released after a few pictures.
We drug the big stuff for a while all the way up into the back, but nothing but smaller fish on the big rapalas and no more hits on the quikfish.
We switched over to koke gear and caught a lot of small cutts, a few rainbows, and a few kokes that we brought home. We probably caught around 25 fish or so today.
The lake got busy with boats, kayak and paddleboards the later it got. We pulled out before noon, and the ramp area was packed with vehicles.