Lindon Interlude 4-7-20

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Figured there would be a few fellow BFTers launching at Lincoln Beach.  In the interest of social distancing I decided to dunk my tube at Lindon.  Launched about 7ish to scattered clouds and light breezes.  Air temp 48 and water temp 50...warming to almost 52 by noon departure. 

Almost got run over by a fast-moving beaver just as I was leaving the harbor.  Almost too close for social distancing.  But the fish were much better at it.  Didn't get a sniff for the first two hours.  Worked a large area off the mouth of Battle Creek without seeing much on sonar...and even less on my line.  Motored down toward the bubbleup.  Could see they had the buoys in place.  Hoped to find at least some white bass and maybe a walleye.  Still nada, zip, zilch niente by nine am.

Started back toward the harbor slowly...allowing the building southerly breeze to move me along at just about the right speed.  WHAM!  The rod with a carp meat baited flig took a dive.  Big whoop!  A bullhead.  Wow!  Almost doesn't count as skunk repellent.

But then it got better.  The kitties came out to play.  Ended up catching 6 or 7 before I bagged it before noon.  Got one on a whole chub minnow and others on fligs with chub, carp and white bass meat.  Most were in the early 20 inch range but got one that was just over 25" and another just over 26".  I covered depths from about 4' out to over 8'.  almost all hits came between 5-7 feet.  Didn't see much on sonar but evidently they came in from the side to the call of the scent from my delicious bait offerings.

With all the people being out of work (or goofing off) there were quite a few folks at Lindon today.  Several boats went out.  Mostly larger play boats...not fishermen.  Several bank tanglers on the west dike.  Also saw a couple in kayaks...staying a proper distance apart for social distancing.

Wind started to pick up a couple of times but layed back down again.  It was almost glass when I headed in at noon.  Didn't see much on sonar in the harbor...with 6' of water.  And did not see any of the bank tanglers score anything besides some sunshine.

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