08-06-2006, 05:33 AM
Kent,
Nice to get to meet you at the dock. Sorry the timing wasn't better. With the storm rolling in and trouble holding the boat and all you had been through you seemed a bit frazzled. I recognized your boat from your posts a few week back so I thought I would take the opportunity to say hi and see how the fishing was. Sorry things didn't go better today for you but at least you got fish!
We launched about 4:30 and headed over by the knowles with threatning clouds and wind chopped water. We tried several locations over there and caught a few. The wind died down after about 30 minutes and the water was like glass. About 6:30 we moved closer to the ladders and it was game on. For the next 1.5 hours the three of us (me, my dad, and my brother) got into fish almost non stop. Then the wind came up again and blew us off our spot and the next 1/2 hour we got a few but not as many. We headed to the dock right before dark. We finished the afternoon with 25 fish with most of those caught between 6:30 and 8:00. We found the fish between 32 and 45 feet but caught most of them in 34 feet. We vertical jigged with tube jigs and a minnow worked better then worms for sweetener on the hook. Water temp 67 degree's. I wish I could have stayed and fished for a few hours after dark but had to get back. Another good day on the berry!
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Nice to get to meet you at the dock. Sorry the timing wasn't better. With the storm rolling in and trouble holding the boat and all you had been through you seemed a bit frazzled. I recognized your boat from your posts a few week back so I thought I would take the opportunity to say hi and see how the fishing was. Sorry things didn't go better today for you but at least you got fish!
We launched about 4:30 and headed over by the knowles with threatning clouds and wind chopped water. We tried several locations over there and caught a few. The wind died down after about 30 minutes and the water was like glass. About 6:30 we moved closer to the ladders and it was game on. For the next 1.5 hours the three of us (me, my dad, and my brother) got into fish almost non stop. Then the wind came up again and blew us off our spot and the next 1/2 hour we got a few but not as many. We headed to the dock right before dark. We finished the afternoon with 25 fish with most of those caught between 6:30 and 8:00. We found the fish between 32 and 45 feet but caught most of them in 34 feet. We vertical jigged with tube jigs and a minnow worked better then worms for sweetener on the hook. Water temp 67 degree's. I wish I could have stayed and fished for a few hours after dark but had to get back. Another good day on the berry!
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