08-13-2013, 05:16 AM
This may not seem much to some but to me it was a...umm...a....I don't know how to say it without dropping an F bomb.
I got up at 3:30 Sunday morning and was on the water at Jordanelle before I could even see what I was doing without my head lamp on. I went to my first spot, eyeballs looking precisely at my location on the GPS, sidefinder and down imaging locked on with the night time lighting. My first stop produced nothing! BOOM! In your face Lucky Craft and over priced electronics LMAO!
Ten minutes into it and no fish in "new water". The fear of driving in the dark was set aside and I pulled up my big boy pants and went to where I've been catching fish the last four weeks. The water levels have dropped drastically and I got side tracked when I saw sticks poking up roughly 100 yards or so off shore. Dropped the rpm's, turned around and did a sidescan on it and it seemed like it was worth checking out. Crazy how 7' changes an entire lake.
I'm not going to lie. My intentions were to catch a limit and cook dinner for my family. First few fish were 14-15 inches but those weren't the size I wanted to keep. It's been a long time since that's happened.
I gut hooked an 11 incher and in the livewell it went. I ended up the day with some bass under 12" to keep for dinner.
I got some crap for keeping bass for dinner from my bass fisherman buddies. One called me a "bass killer" but Jordanelle has plenty of small fish and I might as well get a couple meals for my license, right? Anywho, this little guy was in the stomach of one of them.
...oh crap! It seems that only half the picture came through on my phone. Stay tuned, I'll try again.
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I got up at 3:30 Sunday morning and was on the water at Jordanelle before I could even see what I was doing without my head lamp on. I went to my first spot, eyeballs looking precisely at my location on the GPS, sidefinder and down imaging locked on with the night time lighting. My first stop produced nothing! BOOM! In your face Lucky Craft and over priced electronics LMAO!
Ten minutes into it and no fish in "new water". The fear of driving in the dark was set aside and I pulled up my big boy pants and went to where I've been catching fish the last four weeks. The water levels have dropped drastically and I got side tracked when I saw sticks poking up roughly 100 yards or so off shore. Dropped the rpm's, turned around and did a sidescan on it and it seemed like it was worth checking out. Crazy how 7' changes an entire lake.
I'm not going to lie. My intentions were to catch a limit and cook dinner for my family. First few fish were 14-15 inches but those weren't the size I wanted to keep. It's been a long time since that's happened.
I gut hooked an 11 incher and in the livewell it went. I ended up the day with some bass under 12" to keep for dinner.
I got some crap for keeping bass for dinner from my bass fisherman buddies. One called me a "bass killer" but Jordanelle has plenty of small fish and I might as well get a couple meals for my license, right? Anywho, this little guy was in the stomach of one of them.
...oh crap! It seems that only half the picture came through on my phone. Stay tuned, I'll try again.
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