11-27-2009, 05:25 PM
Started out fishing Staleys before light. We caught 15 fish in the morning with 14 being cutts between 18-21". The other fish was a brookie. We were using white or chartruse paddle bugs tipped with nightcrawler or mealworms. The fish seemed to favor the mealworms just slightly more. All fish were caught before 9:00AM. Then it was like a light switch being turned off.
Then my wife and other kids came at 11:00. We set up Thanksgiving dinner in the command post and cooked our turkey in the deep fryer. Everything went perfect. We had a great Thanksgiving out on the ice.
After packing up and helping my wife get ready to go home. I went to try out another location. This one I can not tell as I was sworn to secrecy. However I can say study maps of the lake and look for the holes and drop offs that are good in the Fall.
It was 4:00PM before I was set up in the new holes. The move payed off as we picked up 10 more fish and broke off two huge ones. It was a pretty even mix of brookies and cutts at this hole. We were running out of light at 5:15 so we packed up and went home.
I will post picks and more detail when I get home tomorrow night.
Windriver
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Then my wife and other kids came at 11:00. We set up Thanksgiving dinner in the command post and cooked our turkey in the deep fryer. Everything went perfect. We had a great Thanksgiving out on the ice.
After packing up and helping my wife get ready to go home. I went to try out another location. This one I can not tell as I was sworn to secrecy. However I can say study maps of the lake and look for the holes and drop offs that are good in the Fall.
It was 4:00PM before I was set up in the new holes. The move payed off as we picked up 10 more fish and broke off two huge ones. It was a pretty even mix of brookies and cutts at this hole. We were running out of light at 5:15 so we packed up and went home.
I will post picks and more detail when I get home tomorrow night.
Windriver
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