06-21-2008, 04:01 AM
[fishin]
Being a swing-shifter, I rarely get up before the butt-crack of dawn. However, there's one exception: to wet a line.
Headed out on the road at 5:00 a.m. with some buddies and hit the sweet pond a few hrs. later. What a beautiful day! For once- no wind. Did I mention that "wind" is a four letter word?
After some pics of the scenery and some wildlife, some lunkers' little brother accidentally found my hook...and three more in succession. Time to change the rainbow rapala for the bigger version. It didn't take long and *WAMMO* he hit it hard and the drag was singing. After a little line tanglin', I took the pic and released 'big brother'.
I'm thinking I'll be slamming them all day long. NOPE. Next two hours I didn't even get a hit. Funny how fishing can be like that. After changing up various rapalas, jigs, spinners and whatever else I had, I finally decided to dance with the lady who brought me- and put on the initial rainbow rapala. On the way back to shore *SLAMO* another nice fat rainbow and like his twin brother, he hit it hard. Another pic, and another release.
Even though it was a fairly slow day and the catchin' could have been better, the FISHING was fantastic. No cutts today- all 'Bows.
Gotta love the troutskis!
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Being a swing-shifter, I rarely get up before the butt-crack of dawn. However, there's one exception: to wet a line.
Headed out on the road at 5:00 a.m. with some buddies and hit the sweet pond a few hrs. later. What a beautiful day! For once- no wind. Did I mention that "wind" is a four letter word?
After some pics of the scenery and some wildlife, some lunkers' little brother accidentally found my hook...and three more in succession. Time to change the rainbow rapala for the bigger version. It didn't take long and *WAMMO* he hit it hard and the drag was singing. After a little line tanglin', I took the pic and released 'big brother'.
I'm thinking I'll be slamming them all day long. NOPE. Next two hours I didn't even get a hit. Funny how fishing can be like that. After changing up various rapalas, jigs, spinners and whatever else I had, I finally decided to dance with the lady who brought me- and put on the initial rainbow rapala. On the way back to shore *SLAMO* another nice fat rainbow and like his twin brother, he hit it hard. Another pic, and another release.
Even though it was a fairly slow day and the catchin' could have been better, the FISHING was fantastic. No cutts today- all 'Bows.
Gotta love the troutskis!
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