07-27-2009, 08:49 PM
I know you practice catch and release because we caught the same fish on the 25th.
We had friends from California and their little girl visiting over the week end, so to let the mother and my wife have some visiting time I told Chris and Maggie I was taking them "catching".
When the Maggie - the 10 year old - corrected me that I should have said fishing, I corrected her back and told her I was taking her to Mantua so she would be "catching" fish, and that "fishing" was when you were going for something specific.
She caught her first of about 25-30 while I was showing her how to lower the spoon, worm tipped, to the bottom and reel up a turn. I had her on a whippy ultra-lite spinning rod with an ice fishing reel with 2 lb line, so she thought every one she caught was a giant until it was boated.
I had her dad on my real limber long perch jerking pole with 4 lb test. I should have had him on heavier line because after he lost the first couple of jigs due to his poor tying, I tied him on a small rainbow spoon that he tipped with worm and started casting and slow reeling back above the weeds.
Almost every cast brought in a small to tiny bass or perch. His largest boated was 2 lbs +/- and he had a really nice one on that he couldn't handle on the light line and it broke off.
I started casting and slow reeling a 1/32 paddle tail tipped with worm with the same results, except my largest was only about 1 1/2 lbs.
It made Maggie's visit. She says she can't wait to come back and have me take her "fishing" instead of just "catching".
Saw a couple of tubes working the area by the dock, I imagine for bass, and another couple dead-center of the favorite waypoint on my GPS unit, so I didn't fish it but went to secondaries. If you're on this site, how did you do?
Water was in the mid-70's.
Mike
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We had friends from California and their little girl visiting over the week end, so to let the mother and my wife have some visiting time I told Chris and Maggie I was taking them "catching".
When the Maggie - the 10 year old - corrected me that I should have said fishing, I corrected her back and told her I was taking her to Mantua so she would be "catching" fish, and that "fishing" was when you were going for something specific.
She caught her first of about 25-30 while I was showing her how to lower the spoon, worm tipped, to the bottom and reel up a turn. I had her on a whippy ultra-lite spinning rod with an ice fishing reel with 2 lb line, so she thought every one she caught was a giant until it was boated.
I had her dad on my real limber long perch jerking pole with 4 lb test. I should have had him on heavier line because after he lost the first couple of jigs due to his poor tying, I tied him on a small rainbow spoon that he tipped with worm and started casting and slow reeling back above the weeds.
Almost every cast brought in a small to tiny bass or perch. His largest boated was 2 lbs +/- and he had a really nice one on that he couldn't handle on the light line and it broke off.
I started casting and slow reeling a 1/32 paddle tail tipped with worm with the same results, except my largest was only about 1 1/2 lbs.
It made Maggie's visit. She says she can't wait to come back and have me take her "fishing" instead of just "catching".
Saw a couple of tubes working the area by the dock, I imagine for bass, and another couple dead-center of the favorite waypoint on my GPS unit, so I didn't fish it but went to secondaries. If you're on this site, how did you do?
Water was in the mid-70's.
Mike
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