12-12-2004, 03:27 AM
Nice report Geoff. Couldn't have reported better. Heres my bits.
We were all catching so many during times it was hard to keep track of how many were caught. Great spending time on HARD water with Phil, Geoff and Mike. Learned some great techniques and hard water lures to use and think I am ready to get sucked into the ice frenzy!
Through-out the day we had this littlest fish contest going, with me winning in the beginning with a whopping 6 incher, then Phil with one around 5 inches, then I took the lead again with a little over 4 inches, thought i had it beat then 20 minutes before we left Mike landed a itzy bitzy 4 inch rainbow. These small fish weren't very abundant, the majority of the fish were over 12 inches. Only a couple planters caught, most had all fins intact.
We moved around a bit, started out slow then we finished off at a hot spot Geoff turned us on to, and it was awesome! All of us pretty much finished off hooting and hollering with only a few seconds between hits. Loads of hits, soft biters, but great fun.
Brought back 4 trout that were fat 14 and 16 inchers and put them in a pan with 6 table spoons of butter, garlic, parsley, salt, and fresh sliced lemon to give it some tang and cooked for 7 minutes then took the fish out and poored the remaining thickened butter sauce over some angel haired pasta and put the trout ontop of it and it was very very good.
Perfect way to end my first of many trips on hard water. Already got buzz going for the next one. Can't wait!
Cheers!
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We were all catching so many during times it was hard to keep track of how many were caught. Great spending time on HARD water with Phil, Geoff and Mike. Learned some great techniques and hard water lures to use and think I am ready to get sucked into the ice frenzy!
Through-out the day we had this littlest fish contest going, with me winning in the beginning with a whopping 6 incher, then Phil with one around 5 inches, then I took the lead again with a little over 4 inches, thought i had it beat then 20 minutes before we left Mike landed a itzy bitzy 4 inch rainbow. These small fish weren't very abundant, the majority of the fish were over 12 inches. Only a couple planters caught, most had all fins intact.
We moved around a bit, started out slow then we finished off at a hot spot Geoff turned us on to, and it was awesome! All of us pretty much finished off hooting and hollering with only a few seconds between hits. Loads of hits, soft biters, but great fun.
Brought back 4 trout that were fat 14 and 16 inchers and put them in a pan with 6 table spoons of butter, garlic, parsley, salt, and fresh sliced lemon to give it some tang and cooked for 7 minutes then took the fish out and poored the remaining thickened butter sauce over some angel haired pasta and put the trout ontop of it and it was very very good.
Perfect way to end my first of many trips on hard water. Already got buzz going for the next one. Can't wait!
Cheers!
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