11-01-2006, 01:50 AM
[cool][#0000ff]Hooked up with Flycasting for some field testing this morning. He was a nice guy and did the maiden voyage thing on a new-to-me Fish Cat 4 I recently bought as a back up for family and friends fishing. He also helped me test some new sparkly goodies for perch and trout.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Launched from the Rock Cliff ramp about 7:30. Air temp 22, water temp 49. Ice-in-the-guides cold with a chilly east breeze. We let the zephyrs blow us uplake, toward the buoy line, where we anticipated we could find some perch.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Threw spinners and watched "TV" as we went. Saw few fish on the bottom in water from 15 to 30 feet deep. Did see a few cruising at middepth. Figured they were trout. The planters that kept banging our spinners seemed to support that theory. FC messed up and caught a nice little cutt on a perch jig. Silly FC. Silly cutt.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]After playing with a few junior bows, I started looking and jigging for serious. Wham. A 11" smallie from 39 feet, followed by a f[/#0000ff][#0000ff]ew bitty perchlets. Had several nicer perch hooked but lost them to the "branch offices" below. The fish were right in the trees out in water over 40 feet deep.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I never did find any larger perch, but FC found a small school, dropped his marker buoy and whacked a few nicer ones. The largest was right about 12". Of course as soon as I powered over to "help" him the school either moved off or shut down.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]It was nice through the middle of the morning. The early cool misty breeze went away and it was glassy calm...for awhile. Then the forecasted westerly breezes began. They kept building to the point it became impossible to hold a vertical jigging session for perch so we threw spinners as we let the breezes blow us back toward the car. And blow they did. It got cold and downright windy before we hit the ramp in mid afternoon.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I caught my last fish, another small cutt, just before we went in. Two cutts for us in one day. Not too common on Lake X. I didn't bring any home, but FC managed to put together a nice basket for the family dinner table.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Flycasting is a good field tester. He really gave my new stuff a good workout and we had a great time...as usual.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Launched from the Rock Cliff ramp about 7:30. Air temp 22, water temp 49. Ice-in-the-guides cold with a chilly east breeze. We let the zephyrs blow us uplake, toward the buoy line, where we anticipated we could find some perch.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Threw spinners and watched "TV" as we went. Saw few fish on the bottom in water from 15 to 30 feet deep. Did see a few cruising at middepth. Figured they were trout. The planters that kept banging our spinners seemed to support that theory. FC messed up and caught a nice little cutt on a perch jig. Silly FC. Silly cutt.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]After playing with a few junior bows, I started looking and jigging for serious. Wham. A 11" smallie from 39 feet, followed by a f[/#0000ff][#0000ff]ew bitty perchlets. Had several nicer perch hooked but lost them to the "branch offices" below. The fish were right in the trees out in water over 40 feet deep.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I never did find any larger perch, but FC found a small school, dropped his marker buoy and whacked a few nicer ones. The largest was right about 12". Of course as soon as I powered over to "help" him the school either moved off or shut down.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]It was nice through the middle of the morning. The early cool misty breeze went away and it was glassy calm...for awhile. Then the forecasted westerly breezes began. They kept building to the point it became impossible to hold a vertical jigging session for perch so we threw spinners as we let the breezes blow us back toward the car. And blow they did. It got cold and downright windy before we hit the ramp in mid afternoon.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I caught my last fish, another small cutt, just before we went in. Two cutts for us in one day. Not too common on Lake X. I didn't bring any home, but FC managed to put together a nice basket for the family dinner table.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Flycasting is a good field tester. He really gave my new stuff a good workout and we had a great time...as usual.[/#0000ff]
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