10-06-2014, 09:10 PM
I don't often post trip reports because well...I rarely catch anything or have anything helpful to share.
That being said, I did manage one cat in a few hours at AF harbor on the lake side. Not a monster by any means, but I think my biggest to date. Didn't have a tape/scale with me. It did clamp down on my thumb harder than any cat I've caught before. And it left something embedded in me. It was caught on a shrimp soaked in clam juice or something of my brothers creation. This happened in the first 10mins of arriving. A location and bait changes couldn't entice any more strikes from the cats, only curious wb.
The water seemed to have a thick layer of green algae on the top. I haven't seen that before and was hoping someone could enlighten us.
One other thing I wanted to share. There was a jet ski stranded a couple hundred yards out with the operators yelling for assistance. At the same time a sheriff was driving over the dike so I went to notify him. When I told him, he just sort of snickered and laughed while saying he would check it out. Not really the reaction I expected, but it made me laugh.
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That being said, I did manage one cat in a few hours at AF harbor on the lake side. Not a monster by any means, but I think my biggest to date. Didn't have a tape/scale with me. It did clamp down on my thumb harder than any cat I've caught before. And it left something embedded in me. It was caught on a shrimp soaked in clam juice or something of my brothers creation. This happened in the first 10mins of arriving. A location and bait changes couldn't entice any more strikes from the cats, only curious wb.
The water seemed to have a thick layer of green algae on the top. I haven't seen that before and was hoping someone could enlighten us.
One other thing I wanted to share. There was a jet ski stranded a couple hundred yards out with the operators yelling for assistance. At the same time a sheriff was driving over the dike so I went to notify him. When I told him, he just sort of snickered and laughed while saying he would check it out. Not really the reaction I expected, but it made me laugh.
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