11-07-2012, 09:12 PM
[cool][#0000ff]Neither high_n_dry or myself were feeling good about the election results so we headed to Jordanelle for an attitude adjustment session. You can fish or you can fret...but you can't do both at the same time.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We were ready to launch at the PWC ramp by 7 am. We both made false starts. I launched but had to come back in right away to adjust my new motor mount. Glenn had to trudge back up the LOOONG ramp to get the nightcrawlers he had left in his truck.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Air temp at launch was 34 and the water temp was 48...warming all the way up to 49 after a morning in the sun.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I didn't waste much time hooking up with a feisty fourteen inch bow on a black and orange "Jack-o-bugger" fly...trailing behind a black jig. Missed a couple of other short strikes. We cruised over to the NW corner of the lake to prospect...me for perch and Glenn for trout. Glenn got a nice high teens cutty on a Jakes pitched in close to shore. I had some rattle rattle hits from dink perch out around a tree in 40 feet of water. No more action for either of us for a while.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I motored up to the spot where I scored a nice batch of perch a couple of weeks ago. Started seeing some fish on sonar but they all had their little mouths closed and their middle fins upraised. Rude fish. Saw a lot more fish on TV than on my hook. Couldn't believe all the fishy marks and nothing showing me any love. No Mia Love neither. Too bad for her.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Finally found a small area with some active perch and started getting some bonks. Brought in several keeper perch, along with the usual dinks. Just began to hope that maybe I could harvest a nice batch again and then Glenn showed up. After having a previous hot bite shut down two times in a row after he gets near me I am beginning to think that the man ain't my good luck charm. Didn't hook another perch in an hour and a half fishing with Glenn in that formerly active area. Saw LOTS of fish on sonar but they would not hit worms or perch meat...fished on a variety of different jigs.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The Jordanelle Zephyr started to gear up about 10 and it became tough to hold position and to fish the finesse style necessary to seduce the perchies. It got colder in the wind too. So we reeled in the perch jigs and put out some troutin' stuff...dragging it slowly behind our wind-aided slow-motoring craft.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I picked up another rainbow...the twin to the one I had caught earlier. And Glenn also scored a bow about the same size...to join his larger cutt. He also discovered the area I had worked for small perch earlier in the day...trees coming up off the bottom in over 40 feet of water...with perch in and over the branches. He bagged a couple of dink perch and that was it for us for the day. Another half hour without further bites and we were ready for the ramp.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Definitely had both better and worse days on Jordanelle. But we managed to forget the election debacle for a while and tug on some fishies. I got the bigger perch but Glenn got BFOD (big fish of the day) honors. Good on ya. And thanks for the snackies. Your wife is already a pro with the new smoker.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We were ready to launch at the PWC ramp by 7 am. We both made false starts. I launched but had to come back in right away to adjust my new motor mount. Glenn had to trudge back up the LOOONG ramp to get the nightcrawlers he had left in his truck.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Air temp at launch was 34 and the water temp was 48...warming all the way up to 49 after a morning in the sun.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I didn't waste much time hooking up with a feisty fourteen inch bow on a black and orange "Jack-o-bugger" fly...trailing behind a black jig. Missed a couple of other short strikes. We cruised over to the NW corner of the lake to prospect...me for perch and Glenn for trout. Glenn got a nice high teens cutty on a Jakes pitched in close to shore. I had some rattle rattle hits from dink perch out around a tree in 40 feet of water. No more action for either of us for a while.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I motored up to the spot where I scored a nice batch of perch a couple of weeks ago. Started seeing some fish on sonar but they all had their little mouths closed and their middle fins upraised. Rude fish. Saw a lot more fish on TV than on my hook. Couldn't believe all the fishy marks and nothing showing me any love. No Mia Love neither. Too bad for her.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Finally found a small area with some active perch and started getting some bonks. Brought in several keeper perch, along with the usual dinks. Just began to hope that maybe I could harvest a nice batch again and then Glenn showed up. After having a previous hot bite shut down two times in a row after he gets near me I am beginning to think that the man ain't my good luck charm. Didn't hook another perch in an hour and a half fishing with Glenn in that formerly active area. Saw LOTS of fish on sonar but they would not hit worms or perch meat...fished on a variety of different jigs.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The Jordanelle Zephyr started to gear up about 10 and it became tough to hold position and to fish the finesse style necessary to seduce the perchies. It got colder in the wind too. So we reeled in the perch jigs and put out some troutin' stuff...dragging it slowly behind our wind-aided slow-motoring craft.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I picked up another rainbow...the twin to the one I had caught earlier. And Glenn also scored a bow about the same size...to join his larger cutt. He also discovered the area I had worked for small perch earlier in the day...trees coming up off the bottom in over 40 feet of water...with perch in and over the branches. He bagged a couple of dink perch and that was it for us for the day. Another half hour without further bites and we were ready for the ramp.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Definitely had both better and worse days on Jordanelle. But we managed to forget the election debacle for a while and tug on some fishies. I got the bigger perch but Glenn got BFOD (big fish of the day) honors. Good on ya. And thanks for the snackies. Your wife is already a pro with the new smoker.[/#0000ff]
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