08-31-2011, 11:14 AM
[cool][#0000ff]It's been a while since LloydE and I have ganged up on the fishies at Starvation together. After my report last week he couldn't stand it any longer. Had to be this week. Today looked like the best shot weatherwise so we done did it.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Water levels are still quite high for this time of year but starting to drop. Air temp 60 and water temp 66 at launch. Very light breeze and a few teensy white clouds around the horizon. Sneaky little devils.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We both got started by playing with the dinkster perch. Then I got into a few small wallies, including a couple of footlongs. Lost a rainbow and landed another one...all in the first half hour. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Lloyd landed a nice rainbow...which was to be his last in the net for the rest of the day. He played conservationist today...long line releasing a succession of Starvation steelies. Inexperienced fish. Din't know how to hang on. But he let a couple of them have my little no name lures to take with them as souvenirs of their encounters.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Steady action. Lots of bites. Lots of annihilated crawlers. Plenty of small perch and walleyes. Only a few worthy of the basket. But we both scored enough for a meal or two. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I brought it about 7 or 8 rainbows and kept 4 for the smoker. Caught several on spinners and the rest on the pale perch No-Name. Most were suspended at mid depth in at least 30 feet of water. No surface activity at all. But a couple of the fish did put on a surface show. They didn't last week.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Water was glass until about noon. Then there was a little easterly ripple. Also a couple of those cute little white puffy clouds had growed up...into dark grey mamas. And they were retaining liquids. That is until they decided to dampen our departure. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I hooked up my tow rope to Lloyd's tube and motored him in the final hundred yards or so to the take out spot. We had just finished with the dead fish pics when it started to spit...big old drops...and lots of them. Reminded me of the old analogy about a flat rock and bovine micturation. It rained heavily for about a half hour before we could finish packing up to boogie.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]To make the day complete we spent over an hour total time stopped at road flagman points...3 between Starvation and Strawberry and 1 at Deer Creek. Sure glad I cancelled my early dinner with Obama. I would have been late for sure.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Water levels are still quite high for this time of year but starting to drop. Air temp 60 and water temp 66 at launch. Very light breeze and a few teensy white clouds around the horizon. Sneaky little devils.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We both got started by playing with the dinkster perch. Then I got into a few small wallies, including a couple of footlongs. Lost a rainbow and landed another one...all in the first half hour. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Lloyd landed a nice rainbow...which was to be his last in the net for the rest of the day. He played conservationist today...long line releasing a succession of Starvation steelies. Inexperienced fish. Din't know how to hang on. But he let a couple of them have my little no name lures to take with them as souvenirs of their encounters.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Steady action. Lots of bites. Lots of annihilated crawlers. Plenty of small perch and walleyes. Only a few worthy of the basket. But we both scored enough for a meal or two. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I brought it about 7 or 8 rainbows and kept 4 for the smoker. Caught several on spinners and the rest on the pale perch No-Name. Most were suspended at mid depth in at least 30 feet of water. No surface activity at all. But a couple of the fish did put on a surface show. They didn't last week.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Water was glass until about noon. Then there was a little easterly ripple. Also a couple of those cute little white puffy clouds had growed up...into dark grey mamas. And they were retaining liquids. That is until they decided to dampen our departure. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I hooked up my tow rope to Lloyd's tube and motored him in the final hundred yards or so to the take out spot. We had just finished with the dead fish pics when it started to spit...big old drops...and lots of them. Reminded me of the old analogy about a flat rock and bovine micturation. It rained heavily for about a half hour before we could finish packing up to boogie.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]To make the day complete we spent over an hour total time stopped at road flagman points...3 between Starvation and Strawberry and 1 at Deer Creek. Sure glad I cancelled my early dinner with Obama. I would have been late for sure.[/#0000ff]
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