09-05-2019, 12:28 AM
Well I did make my trip down to UL/LB today. Was totally surprised to find the parking lot completely empty at about 7 a.m. when I drove in. Took a quick photo of the LB marina and ramp area, then got busy getting launched. Had just tied up to the dock and was heading to move the truck off the ramp, and another rig drove in.
I said my "Good morning gentlemen" then noticed the BFT sticker in the boat windshield. Got to meet and shake hands with CDBRC and 2 of his fishin mates.
They passed me up heading out the channel, looked as if they went east, (turns out I should have also) but I headed for Bird Island. Still lots of water around the island, and most of the fish I saw on the sonar seemed to be in the 7-8 fow areas. So I set up one line on the bottom with some white bass cuts, and set one line up with a Kong flig and some wb meat.
Moved them around every so often, changed spots around the west and south sides of the island. Had several real tentative taps no and then but nothing wanted the whole hook. After about 90 minutes of such peaceful, no bite, calm, light breeze creating just enough rock to almost put me to sleep, decided I would head towards the east side of the south end of the lake. Never been that direction before. I guess I didn't go far enough, cuz I had about 60 minutes of repeated island action.....NONE.
Finally ended up in a big triangle, back to the west of the LB channel. Set up a line on the bottom with wb meat, and tied a medium flig to my light medium pole with 6 lb. mono. Stuck a small strip of wb skin with just a little meat on the flig hook, then a small green Gulp grub. Put it out and let it settle.
Those fligs I got from TD must be faulty or sumthin. The big Kong fligs don't catch nutin, and the smaller ones that were sposed to be for some white bass, well a bad attitude Mr Cat grabbed that and dern near spooled my little light weight reel. Sure glad I had the drag real loose, cuz that pole wasn't in a holder. Took me a good 10 minutes of reeling and letting him run, then reeling again. Keeping him out from under the boat, trying real hard to get him close enough to net without him snagging my line on the boat hull.
Well I boated him [cool], rigged up my scales (can't seem to keep that thing from defaulting to kg) but for all of you that don't do metrics or never been to Europe, the scales reads 2.67 kg. which in U.S. pounds, thats 5.88 lbs.
Not a contest size Cat for me (only 25 inches) but a saving from a skunk.
Turned that one loose, cast out that same exact flig rig, and...........yep.......another hit, run, drag screaming............NOTHING [mad] whatever took the grub, the wb meat, and bent the hook.......... [crazy]
After that, wind went dead calm, fish all went dead too. Called it a day about 1215
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I said my "Good morning gentlemen" then noticed the BFT sticker in the boat windshield. Got to meet and shake hands with CDBRC and 2 of his fishin mates.
They passed me up heading out the channel, looked as if they went east, (turns out I should have also) but I headed for Bird Island. Still lots of water around the island, and most of the fish I saw on the sonar seemed to be in the 7-8 fow areas. So I set up one line on the bottom with some white bass cuts, and set one line up with a Kong flig and some wb meat.
Moved them around every so often, changed spots around the west and south sides of the island. Had several real tentative taps no and then but nothing wanted the whole hook. After about 90 minutes of such peaceful, no bite, calm, light breeze creating just enough rock to almost put me to sleep, decided I would head towards the east side of the south end of the lake. Never been that direction before. I guess I didn't go far enough, cuz I had about 60 minutes of repeated island action.....NONE.
Finally ended up in a big triangle, back to the west of the LB channel. Set up a line on the bottom with wb meat, and tied a medium flig to my light medium pole with 6 lb. mono. Stuck a small strip of wb skin with just a little meat on the flig hook, then a small green Gulp grub. Put it out and let it settle.
Those fligs I got from TD must be faulty or sumthin. The big Kong fligs don't catch nutin, and the smaller ones that were sposed to be for some white bass, well a bad attitude Mr Cat grabbed that and dern near spooled my little light weight reel. Sure glad I had the drag real loose, cuz that pole wasn't in a holder. Took me a good 10 minutes of reeling and letting him run, then reeling again. Keeping him out from under the boat, trying real hard to get him close enough to net without him snagging my line on the boat hull.
Well I boated him [cool], rigged up my scales (can't seem to keep that thing from defaulting to kg) but for all of you that don't do metrics or never been to Europe, the scales reads 2.67 kg. which in U.S. pounds, thats 5.88 lbs.
Not a contest size Cat for me (only 25 inches) but a saving from a skunk.
Turned that one loose, cast out that same exact flig rig, and...........yep.......another hit, run, drag screaming............NOTHING [mad] whatever took the grub, the wb meat, and bent the hook.......... [crazy]
After that, wind went dead calm, fish all went dead too. Called it a day about 1215
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"OCD = Obsessive Catfish Disorder "
Or so it says on my license plate holder
Or so it says on my license plate holder
] I may try for a 10th trip to WB tomorrow.
]) and saw something interesting. I was fishing the east side dragging baits about half to one mph and while I was there a boat came and anchored just off the north end. I didn't see him all the time, but often I was w/in 100 yards or so of his spot.