04-20-2012, 09:41 PM
[cool][#0000ff]TubeBabe is in California til Monday. Can't go fishing over the weekend...yardwork and fambly. So looked like Friday was it...and Lindon looked like the best of the worst after the storm cycle.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Launched at 6:30 am. Air temp 42 and water temp 53. Come on warm weather.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Very little on sonar inside the harbor. Paused to hit the points of the dikes on both sides of the channel entrance. No love. No fish on the screen either. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Flipped a mental coin to see which direction I would point my tube...south to the bubbleup or north to Battle Creek area. South won...temporarily.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Motored on high speed to the buoys and started looking for fish. Fishy desert on sonar. Nary a blip. Worked up and down and in and out the buoy line. Got one small whitie on one of my new t
le wobble jigs. Then a long dry spell before getting a few more white bass. A couple more on the red and chartreuse TW jigs but most action was on a little pink tube jig on a 1/16 oz. pink wobble head. I kept changing up sizes, shapes and colors but that was about the only thing that was getting any love.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Never could find any schools or concentrations of fish...of any species. And all I could catch were white bass. No hits on minnows or crawler rigs fished on the second pole either.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]About 9:30 they started in with the artillery again over at Camp Williams. That usually shuts down the fast fishing. But I hadn't had a hit in over a half hour anyway. So I decided to bottom bounce some jigs along as I worked my way back to the harbor, and then over to the area around Battle Creek.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Not long after leaving the line of buoys at the bubbleup and setting my trolling motor on low drag speed I had a solid whack on one of my tandem jig rigs. Hoped for a walleye but this one had whiskers. A good fight but it got to swim away. Not keeping anything besides a few whities today, for a dinner for one.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Stopped to work the rocks at the mouth of the harbor on the way to Battle Creek. Should kept going...and going...and going. Nada, zip, zilch.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Nothing doing in the channel of the creek either. No hits, no runs no arrows.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Moved further north and put on a floating jig head (flig)...red and chartreuse...with a crawler. That's a good producer for walleyes...at times. Not today. I did get a lot of whacks but I am sure they were mostly white bass. I did catch one nice whitie on the flig.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]While dragging the flig I continued to cast with the plastic tandem rig I had been using at the bubbleup. I guess a couple of the whities followed me and joined me in my tube...again on pink.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Just about the time I had finished my sandwich and was contemplating getting my tube up on plane and heading for the ramp...I got another good chomp on the plastic. The fish fought differently. Looked different too. My third species on pink...a bullhead (mudder).[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I took a few minutes and worked the inside of the harbor in several areas. Saw a few more fish than in the morning but they all had their little mouths closed and their middle fins upraised on the screen.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Water temp had gone up to 55 just after noon. With a warm weekend it won't be long until we stay above 60 degree water and the fish will come back from winter vacation.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Launched at 6:30 am. Air temp 42 and water temp 53. Come on warm weather.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Very little on sonar inside the harbor. Paused to hit the points of the dikes on both sides of the channel entrance. No love. No fish on the screen either. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Flipped a mental coin to see which direction I would point my tube...south to the bubbleup or north to Battle Creek area. South won...temporarily.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Motored on high speed to the buoys and started looking for fish. Fishy desert on sonar. Nary a blip. Worked up and down and in and out the buoy line. Got one small whitie on one of my new t
le wobble jigs. Then a long dry spell before getting a few more white bass. A couple more on the red and chartreuse TW jigs but most action was on a little pink tube jig on a 1/16 oz. pink wobble head. I kept changing up sizes, shapes and colors but that was about the only thing that was getting any love.[/#0000ff][#0000ff][/#0000ff]
[#0000ff]Never could find any schools or concentrations of fish...of any species. And all I could catch were white bass. No hits on minnows or crawler rigs fished on the second pole either.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]About 9:30 they started in with the artillery again over at Camp Williams. That usually shuts down the fast fishing. But I hadn't had a hit in over a half hour anyway. So I decided to bottom bounce some jigs along as I worked my way back to the harbor, and then over to the area around Battle Creek.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Not long after leaving the line of buoys at the bubbleup and setting my trolling motor on low drag speed I had a solid whack on one of my tandem jig rigs. Hoped for a walleye but this one had whiskers. A good fight but it got to swim away. Not keeping anything besides a few whities today, for a dinner for one.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Stopped to work the rocks at the mouth of the harbor on the way to Battle Creek. Should kept going...and going...and going. Nada, zip, zilch.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Nothing doing in the channel of the creek either. No hits, no runs no arrows.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Moved further north and put on a floating jig head (flig)...red and chartreuse...with a crawler. That's a good producer for walleyes...at times. Not today. I did get a lot of whacks but I am sure they were mostly white bass. I did catch one nice whitie on the flig.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]While dragging the flig I continued to cast with the plastic tandem rig I had been using at the bubbleup. I guess a couple of the whities followed me and joined me in my tube...again on pink.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Just about the time I had finished my sandwich and was contemplating getting my tube up on plane and heading for the ramp...I got another good chomp on the plastic. The fish fought differently. Looked different too. My third species on pink...a bullhead (mudder).[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I took a few minutes and worked the inside of the harbor in several areas. Saw a few more fish than in the morning but they all had their little mouths closed and their middle fins upraised on the screen.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Water temp had gone up to 55 just after noon. With a warm weekend it won't be long until we stay above 60 degree water and the fish will come back from winter vacation.[/#0000ff]
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