07-27-2022, 09:58 AM
(This post was last modified: 07-27-2022, 10:31 AM by just-ice.
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I've been chasing myself in circles mostly, stopped drinking this year so everything I do is not drinking and it feels like alls monochrome and pointless, like watching TCM on mute.mostly been going for suckers and chubs in mudflow we used to call a river, I took a few on a tigermusky trip, where there's possibly one or two. If you convert 10000 casts into odds by population it works out to 100000-1000000 casts, and I only made 10 casts.
First I had a turtle chewing on the bait, then a explosive bite I knew was a Muskie, turned out to be a 9# catfish, had a tiny area between trees with thick catails to pull it through, catfish bodies aren't built for that so I moved to a wider spot someone cleared out and again the bobber does it but this time I know for s ure its the muskie and of course it was a 5# bass.
Also had a couple more cats, one tiny one that I tried hard not to getknicked by but still got paper cut, Colorado's most dangerous fish..also it was going for a huge sucker twice its weight.
Also had a rat like thing swim into my line and made friends with a turtle, picked it up out of the water and put it back in but it still stayed to study me and the bobber, also caught one under ice punching my hand through and grabbing it, considering that a new specie for the year.
I was hoping for a relaxing Walden pond like experience, which many people seem to be reenacting by the river , maybe we should blame Thoreau for all that. Anyway as a kid this pond was fishable on most of the bank, now its overgrown, maybe four spots one person can fish at a time, walking around could trigger a flashback from Nam.
How about you? Big wiper would be fun to go for but I don't know how to find them here, few and far between but it seems like they're making a comeback
First I had a turtle chewing on the bait, then a explosive bite I knew was a Muskie, turned out to be a 9# catfish, had a tiny area between trees with thick catails to pull it through, catfish bodies aren't built for that so I moved to a wider spot someone cleared out and again the bobber does it but this time I know for s ure its the muskie and of course it was a 5# bass.
Also had a couple more cats, one tiny one that I tried hard not to getknicked by but still got paper cut, Colorado's most dangerous fish..also it was going for a huge sucker twice its weight.
Also had a rat like thing swim into my line and made friends with a turtle, picked it up out of the water and put it back in but it still stayed to study me and the bobber, also caught one under ice punching my hand through and grabbing it, considering that a new specie for the year.
I was hoping for a relaxing Walden pond like experience, which many people seem to be reenacting by the river , maybe we should blame Thoreau for all that. Anyway as a kid this pond was fishable on most of the bank, now its overgrown, maybe four spots one person can fish at a time, walking around could trigger a flashback from Nam.
How about you? Big wiper would be fun to go for but I don't know how to find them here, few and far between but it seems like they're making a comeback