08-10-2006, 12:44 AM
[cool][#0000ff]Put Princefisher in a Fat Cat (float tube) this morning on Starvation. His first time in a tube for serious. We were on the water a little after 8 AM, water temp 73 and light breezes. Clear skies and no people or boats on the whole lake that we could see. It was like fishing in our own private pond.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]PF needed a few minutes for a shakedown cruise, to learn how to paddle around and control direction. But, he took to it like a duck to...well, water. Before I could even get launched he was out whipping the water to a froth, trying to get the first fish before I got out there.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]He was good enough to wait until I was within earshot and easy sight range until he sneaked in his first of several small walleyes. It was followed soon after by a larger one...he said about 14". [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The water has dropped about two feet since my last trip, a couple of weeks ago. It took some sonar exploring and some lure changing before we finally found THE ZONE. Actually, PF got into them pretty good while I was still playing with the tiddlers. He got several "basket perch" in short order and called me over on the walkie talkie.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Once we found the right area it was nonstop action. We both caught lots of doubles on our tandem rigs, often by just lowering them less than 10 feet in 20 feet of water. The fish were cruising at middepth a lot today.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We only kept perch over about 9 or 10 inches, but we both had a nice basket for the fillet board when we got back to the car. We also both had a few small wallies. My largest perch ran 13" and my largest walleye was 16. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]No smallmouth today, but I did manage one chubby chub about 14". Fought good.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The weather stayed nice all morning with only light breezes. Then, about noon some clouds to the south sent some strong southerly breezes that got some water slopping over the backs of our tubes. We had overfunned anyway.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]PF needed a few minutes for a shakedown cruise, to learn how to paddle around and control direction. But, he took to it like a duck to...well, water. Before I could even get launched he was out whipping the water to a froth, trying to get the first fish before I got out there.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]He was good enough to wait until I was within earshot and easy sight range until he sneaked in his first of several small walleyes. It was followed soon after by a larger one...he said about 14". [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The water has dropped about two feet since my last trip, a couple of weeks ago. It took some sonar exploring and some lure changing before we finally found THE ZONE. Actually, PF got into them pretty good while I was still playing with the tiddlers. He got several "basket perch" in short order and called me over on the walkie talkie.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Once we found the right area it was nonstop action. We both caught lots of doubles on our tandem rigs, often by just lowering them less than 10 feet in 20 feet of water. The fish were cruising at middepth a lot today.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We only kept perch over about 9 or 10 inches, but we both had a nice basket for the fillet board when we got back to the car. We also both had a few small wallies. My largest perch ran 13" and my largest walleye was 16. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]No smallmouth today, but I did manage one chubby chub about 14". Fought good.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The weather stayed nice all morning with only light breezes. Then, about noon some clouds to the south sent some strong southerly breezes that got some water slopping over the backs of our tubes. We had overfunned anyway.[/#0000ff]
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