06-13-2011, 09:10 PM
[cool][#0000ff]Figured I was doomed. Monday the 13th after a big boating weekend. Doubted there would be much around the harbor. I was right. But there were lotsa fishies to the south.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Water temp was 64 in the harbor and 63 on the main lake when I launched about 6:30. Felt cool to the touch...since this was my first waderless trip this year. About a month later than last year.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Got a couple of hits around the points at the ends of the dikes on the way out but no hookups, besides rocks. I released them unharmed.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Figured there might be some white bass hanging around the bubbleup...and that if there were whities there might be wallies. Been some bigguns being caught down there recently.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]This was a non-catfish day. Decided to throw plastics and hardbaits to try for walleyes and maybe some whities. Didn't work. Stupid cats ate the plastics and cranks too. Also caught several on big minnows I was fishing for WALLEYES...way out at the end of the bubbleup in 11 feet of water.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Saw quite a few fish in the area of the last 3 or 4 buoys at the bubbleup but they would not hit small plastics. Strange. Picked up my crankbait rod and it was game on. Caught grundles of white bass for the next couple of hours. Kept changing colors on my little homemade cranks...trying to find one they would NOT hit. Didn't happen. They were active and they wanted a lure with action.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I did catch a few whites on the small plastics but most of them came on either fire tiger or pale perch crankbaits. They hit hard and fought hard. I caught well over 50 but only kept about half that. Some were over 12 inches.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I had told myself that I would probably only fish until about noon...but that self promise has been broken before. Not this time. Mama Nature took a deep breath just before noon and WHOOOSH. A pretty strong and steady north wind made it fun to get back in...even with my electric motor on my tube. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As I reached the harbor I noticed that all the bank tanglers had vacated the windy outside shoreline and had moved to fish inside the harbor. Saw my old buddy Coldfooter, his daughter and her kids chuckin' bubbles just around the corner. They had managed a few fish but packed up and left about the same time as I hit the ramp. Good to see ya again Don.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Was trying out my new electric motor handle extension I whupped up from some flexible blue conduit I got at Lowes. Worked like a charm. Better than the expensive ones you can buy as an aftermarket accessory.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Yeah, Monday the 13th is better than Friday the 13th. Just gotta time it right.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Water temp was 64 in the harbor and 63 on the main lake when I launched about 6:30. Felt cool to the touch...since this was my first waderless trip this year. About a month later than last year.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Got a couple of hits around the points at the ends of the dikes on the way out but no hookups, besides rocks. I released them unharmed.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Figured there might be some white bass hanging around the bubbleup...and that if there were whities there might be wallies. Been some bigguns being caught down there recently.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]This was a non-catfish day. Decided to throw plastics and hardbaits to try for walleyes and maybe some whities. Didn't work. Stupid cats ate the plastics and cranks too. Also caught several on big minnows I was fishing for WALLEYES...way out at the end of the bubbleup in 11 feet of water.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Saw quite a few fish in the area of the last 3 or 4 buoys at the bubbleup but they would not hit small plastics. Strange. Picked up my crankbait rod and it was game on. Caught grundles of white bass for the next couple of hours. Kept changing colors on my little homemade cranks...trying to find one they would NOT hit. Didn't happen. They were active and they wanted a lure with action.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I did catch a few whites on the small plastics but most of them came on either fire tiger or pale perch crankbaits. They hit hard and fought hard. I caught well over 50 but only kept about half that. Some were over 12 inches.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I had told myself that I would probably only fish until about noon...but that self promise has been broken before. Not this time. Mama Nature took a deep breath just before noon and WHOOOSH. A pretty strong and steady north wind made it fun to get back in...even with my electric motor on my tube. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As I reached the harbor I noticed that all the bank tanglers had vacated the windy outside shoreline and had moved to fish inside the harbor. Saw my old buddy Coldfooter, his daughter and her kids chuckin' bubbles just around the corner. They had managed a few fish but packed up and left about the same time as I hit the ramp. Good to see ya again Don.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Was trying out my new electric motor handle extension I whupped up from some flexible blue conduit I got at Lowes. Worked like a charm. Better than the expensive ones you can buy as an aftermarket accessory.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Yeah, Monday the 13th is better than Friday the 13th. Just gotta time it right.[/#0000ff]
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