07-07-2021, 01:57 PM
Posted the story of my oldest sons first successful fishing in Arizona 1979. Fast forward to Utah, Mantua, 2004, our first boat and my youngest child and only daughter.
Was first summer with our new boat. After a couple disappointed trips to Pineview and East Canyon, we hit Mantua for the first time. We found a tactic that was very productive. Small brass hooks, barb bent back, small piece of plastic worm about 3 feet under a bobber. We were catching Perch, Bluegill, Trout, and a couple small LMB.
My daughter was probably catching 3 or 4 to every one of her brothers. I watched her bring up a nice Perch, take it off the hook, drop it in the live well, then drop her line back in..... no worm, just bare hook. She was letting hook down just to the point where she could see the fish go after it. Soon as one would take it, she would let it hook itself, reel it in, unhook, repeat.
I didn't realize how many she had caught till we were off the water and putting fish on a stringer to put in ice chest. Over 30 assorted.
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Was first summer with our new boat. After a couple disappointed trips to Pineview and East Canyon, we hit Mantua for the first time. We found a tactic that was very productive. Small brass hooks, barb bent back, small piece of plastic worm about 3 feet under a bobber. We were catching Perch, Bluegill, Trout, and a couple small LMB.
My daughter was probably catching 3 or 4 to every one of her brothers. I watched her bring up a nice Perch, take it off the hook, drop it in the live well, then drop her line back in..... no worm, just bare hook. She was letting hook down just to the point where she could see the fish go after it. Soon as one would take it, she would let it hook itself, reel it in, unhook, repeat.
I didn't realize how many she had caught till we were off the water and putting fish on a stringer to put in ice chest. Over 30 assorted.
"OCD = Obsessive Catfish Disorder "
Or so it says on my license plate holder
Or so it says on my license plate holder