05-16-2003, 07:58 PM
[cool]Great report, Leaky...and good news about the fish moving in to the shoreline. That can sure be a fun lake to fish...unless you go out without waders. I know a couple of folks who have developed severe cases of swimmers' itch.
Have you got Bud trained to use the net yet, on the big ones? Man, I had a day there one spring, that there were a whole bunch of two to three pound bass stacked up in the middle of a clump of reeds. I tossed my flies, with mono weed guards, right into the center and then tried to get them back out unmolested. Darned bass just didn't want me to go home with all my flies. Broke of several while I messed up my face with a big permanent grin.
Anyone who has never fished Pelican for the big bluegills in there just can't believe how big and fiesty those babies can get. Here's a shot I took quite a few years ago of male and female 'gills that both weighed well over a pound each.
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Have you got Bud trained to use the net yet, on the big ones? Man, I had a day there one spring, that there were a whole bunch of two to three pound bass stacked up in the middle of a clump of reeds. I tossed my flies, with mono weed guards, right into the center and then tried to get them back out unmolested. Darned bass just didn't want me to go home with all my flies. Broke of several while I messed up my face with a big permanent grin.
Anyone who has never fished Pelican for the big bluegills in there just can't believe how big and fiesty those babies can get. Here's a shot I took quite a few years ago of male and female 'gills that both weighed well over a pound each.
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