07-14-2015, 09:16 PM
[#0000FF]Fellow BFT tuber "Pa" is finally recovering from some health issues and is once again water-worthy. Seeing a window of forecast forbearance...weather-wise...we decided to revisit one of our FORMER fave spots.
Launched at Bunny Gulch (Starvation) about 7ish. Lovely morning. Only a slight ripple on the water. Water temp 68. Water level still almost full. Campground was also well attended for a Tuesday. Looked like it might be some kind of family or group gathering. At least not a lot of PWCs or ski boats, until later.
Pa threw up a rooster tail with his Minnkota (yeah, right) and headed off to the east. I poked along fishing for the bottom blips I could see in 16 to 20 feet of water along the south side of the channel. Picked up a couple of dink perch and fed others some of my worms without inviting them to visit my tube. Rude.
Headed across to the north side of the channel, to an area I have done well on all species during past Julys. That was ancient history. Been dismal the past couple of years...including this one. I saw quite a few potential customers on sonar but they all had the proverbial middle fins upraised. And every time I saw a dense school of "something" my jigs were immediately assaulted by "rattlers"...little perch pecking at the worm sweetener. Most failed to get hooked. But a whole bunch did get to make a thrilling ride up to my tube. Some even got to ride around in my basket so they could go home with me and become kitty bait. They were all cookie cutter 8 inchers. Boring this year but next years fillet size and jumbos in a couple of years.
Had a couple of hard thumps that felt like trout...on Gulp minnows. Also had a teen incher smallie make one jump and give me back my jig. As far as I can tell I did not disturb the equilibrium of a single walleye today. No married ones either.
Pa caught a small rainbow early and that was it for him until about an hour before we left. That was when he made a cast to a surfacing trout and was rewarded with some super tugs...and a couple of jumps. Almost made him
. At least he had a goodun to take home to the grill.
Pa had been zooming around on the lake a lot more than I had. Then, about 11ish, his battery got the blahs and he was powerless. But, nice guy that I am I hooked him up to the same rope I always use for TubeBabe and towed him back to the truck. Sheesh. You'd think folks would learn how to charge their batteries and take better care of them.
A fun day on the water with an old fishing buddy. Woulda been better to score a couple of tasty walleyes. But I ain't complainin'. Not much. But I ain't goin' back until fall. Starvation has been nice enough to me in the past that I believe in giving her another chance.
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Launched at Bunny Gulch (Starvation) about 7ish. Lovely morning. Only a slight ripple on the water. Water temp 68. Water level still almost full. Campground was also well attended for a Tuesday. Looked like it might be some kind of family or group gathering. At least not a lot of PWCs or ski boats, until later.
Pa threw up a rooster tail with his Minnkota (yeah, right) and headed off to the east. I poked along fishing for the bottom blips I could see in 16 to 20 feet of water along the south side of the channel. Picked up a couple of dink perch and fed others some of my worms without inviting them to visit my tube. Rude.
Headed across to the north side of the channel, to an area I have done well on all species during past Julys. That was ancient history. Been dismal the past couple of years...including this one. I saw quite a few potential customers on sonar but they all had the proverbial middle fins upraised. And every time I saw a dense school of "something" my jigs were immediately assaulted by "rattlers"...little perch pecking at the worm sweetener. Most failed to get hooked. But a whole bunch did get to make a thrilling ride up to my tube. Some even got to ride around in my basket so they could go home with me and become kitty bait. They were all cookie cutter 8 inchers. Boring this year but next years fillet size and jumbos in a couple of years.
Had a couple of hard thumps that felt like trout...on Gulp minnows. Also had a teen incher smallie make one jump and give me back my jig. As far as I can tell I did not disturb the equilibrium of a single walleye today. No married ones either.
Pa caught a small rainbow early and that was it for him until about an hour before we left. That was when he made a cast to a surfacing trout and was rewarded with some super tugs...and a couple of jumps. Almost made him
. At least he had a goodun to take home to the grill.Pa had been zooming around on the lake a lot more than I had. Then, about 11ish, his battery got the blahs and he was powerless. But, nice guy that I am I hooked him up to the same rope I always use for TubeBabe and towed him back to the truck. Sheesh. You'd think folks would learn how to charge their batteries and take better care of them.
A fun day on the water with an old fishing buddy. Woulda been better to score a couple of tasty walleyes. But I ain't complainin'. Not much. But I ain't goin' back until fall. Starvation has been nice enough to me in the past that I believe in giving her another chance.
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