02-04-2005, 02:22 AM
My first trip to Rockport was a good experience. It took me and "The Champ" a little while to figure out how to catch the perch there. Fortunately, we got some good assistance from Out4Trout and Fish-C-Man, as well as from other people nearby. Using Out4Trout's Trout Magnets helped a lot (THANKS!), but the best secret was to keep our bait/lures a foot or so above the bottom. We didn't have much luck when our baits were right on the bottom, but as soon as we reeled up another full crank the fish started biting. We also caught fish on white paddle bugs and fluorescent red ice flies, all tipped with perch eyes.
As usual, "The Champ" came from behind and caught more fish than I did. At the end, between 1:00 and 2:00, when the bite had shut down and nobody was catching anything, she kept getting nibbles every five minutes or so. She pulled in fish after fish, and was tickled that all the fisher-MEN were coming over and asking her how she did it. I couldn't match her myself. Toward the end, I even put on exactly the same lure bait and fished down the same hole at the same depth, and she would still catch the fish and I couldn't. That's OK. She left happy, and she wants to go again. I guess that's the way to create an outdoors woman--let her beat you.
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As usual, "The Champ" came from behind and caught more fish than I did. At the end, between 1:00 and 2:00, when the bite had shut down and nobody was catching anything, she kept getting nibbles every five minutes or so. She pulled in fish after fish, and was tickled that all the fisher-MEN were coming over and asking her how she did it. I couldn't match her myself. Toward the end, I even put on exactly the same lure bait and fished down the same hole at the same depth, and she would still catch the fish and I couldn't. That's OK. She left happy, and she wants to go again. I guess that's the way to create an outdoors woman--let her beat you.
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