10-12-2018, 10:53 PM
[#0000ff]Rode to the north marina with Pa. Met up there with FatBiker and fly fishing nut. Chilly mid 30s air temp but no pesky breezes. Water temp 53 in the harbor early and 55 outside...warming to 57 by noon departure.
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[#0000ff]Water was slightly murky...no doubt as a result of the wind and rain this past week. But the water level is still dropping. Both sides of the ramp are taped off to prevent trailers dropping off the end of the shorter ramps on either side. When we came back in some doofus had left his trailer in the water...truck still attached...and had simply gone off out into the lake. Really a cool thing with an already narrowed ramp. Might really torque off the hordes of water skiers who might have showed up later.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We were all on the water by 8...FatBiker, Pa and myself in tubes. FFN brought his bass boat. Silly him. But he is new to our crowd and didn't know we have the fish trained not to respond to foo foo craft. When he left early he had not caught anything. We of the tubing persuasion all caught fish. Neener neener.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Pa and I did not catch our first fish for almost an hour. We both dragged fligs and flung plastic. No love on either for a long time. Then we started getting some love and life was better. FB had moved right in close to the shore at Eagle Beach and was finding a few willing kitties there. I moved in from out in the deeper water I originally figured would be holding the fish in cooler water. I figured wrong. Got several more fish in water around 7' deep.
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[#0000ff]We were all flinging fligs...tipped with perch meat and/or crawler...sweetened with crawdad elixir. I got my first two on a fire tiger flig and my last two on a purple. In between I caught a couple on chub minnows fished with bling beads. We all had some tentative pop and drops. Pa donated a couple of my purple fligs to aggressive catfish by using light line...one time because of knot failure and the other with a nick or something. Remember, fish don't break lines...fishermen do.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Larry (FB) had to depart early for a medical appt. I think he said he had caught a half dozen or so. Lance (FFN) also had a prior commitment that shortened his day. But neither missed much after 10:30. Someone flipped the off switch and neither Pa or I could buy a bite. That's the way it is sometimes.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Heard a few gunshots from the marshes, but it was a bluebird day and I did not see any waterfowl in our area. Did see some flights of pelicans though. The are the Willard air force when flying...and the navy when rafting up and chasing fish.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Only a couple of other boats went out of the north marina this morning. The cooler weather made for a 3-S day...no skiers, no skeeters and no skunk. Well, maybe for FFN. But we will get him in his pontoon next time and he will rock it.
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[#0000ff]Water was slightly murky...no doubt as a result of the wind and rain this past week. But the water level is still dropping. Both sides of the ramp are taped off to prevent trailers dropping off the end of the shorter ramps on either side. When we came back in some doofus had left his trailer in the water...truck still attached...and had simply gone off out into the lake. Really a cool thing with an already narrowed ramp. Might really torque off the hordes of water skiers who might have showed up later.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We were all on the water by 8...FatBiker, Pa and myself in tubes. FFN brought his bass boat. Silly him. But he is new to our crowd and didn't know we have the fish trained not to respond to foo foo craft. When he left early he had not caught anything. We of the tubing persuasion all caught fish. Neener neener.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Pa and I did not catch our first fish for almost an hour. We both dragged fligs and flung plastic. No love on either for a long time. Then we started getting some love and life was better. FB had moved right in close to the shore at Eagle Beach and was finding a few willing kitties there. I moved in from out in the deeper water I originally figured would be holding the fish in cooler water. I figured wrong. Got several more fish in water around 7' deep.
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[#0000ff]We were all flinging fligs...tipped with perch meat and/or crawler...sweetened with crawdad elixir. I got my first two on a fire tiger flig and my last two on a purple. In between I caught a couple on chub minnows fished with bling beads. We all had some tentative pop and drops. Pa donated a couple of my purple fligs to aggressive catfish by using light line...one time because of knot failure and the other with a nick or something. Remember, fish don't break lines...fishermen do.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Larry (FB) had to depart early for a medical appt. I think he said he had caught a half dozen or so. Lance (FFN) also had a prior commitment that shortened his day. But neither missed much after 10:30. Someone flipped the off switch and neither Pa or I could buy a bite. That's the way it is sometimes.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Heard a few gunshots from the marshes, but it was a bluebird day and I did not see any waterfowl in our area. Did see some flights of pelicans though. The are the Willard air force when flying...and the navy when rafting up and chasing fish.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Only a couple of other boats went out of the north marina this morning. The cooler weather made for a 3-S day...no skiers, no skeeters and no skunk. Well, maybe for FFN. But we will get him in his pontoon next time and he will rock it.
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