09-28-2019, 02:56 AM
Cookie and Willard have never gotten along. Its one of the few places I out fish her. But last night she ended her long running skunk (she says of 30 years), not to sure about that, but she does the cooking, so I wont argue.
Where: Willard Bay, North Marina, night fishing off the handicap dock. We wanted to try it out and see how it would work for Buckwheats wheelchair. It will work great.
Conditions: a brisk breeze but not bad inside the harbor. I did not get a temp. Fair amount of surface activity from carp all night as well as some occasional bait fish activity
Gear: We used our big Blue cat rods that we had from our time living in Alabama on a work assignment. A bit overkill but Cookie had three blowups the night before and insisted I gear up for bigger fish. Ran a couple on traditional sliding bait rigs and two on modified Santee rigs. The Santee rigs got by far the most action. Bait was frozen minnows and cut bait. We also used worms but did not get any takes on them.
We threw the bait towards the edge of the vegetation in about 5-8 ft of water, thinking the cats would come up shallow as night came on to chase some grub from the shrubbery. The idea seemed to work as we did not get action on the one I kept out more towards the middle. All the bites on the shallow set rods.
Most of the action was just at sundown, but we had steady action into the night, too.
My favorite part came as we were pulling up to head out. It was pitch dark and I could hear Cookie slow reeling in her rods and what looked like jigging action going on. So I wandered over and asked her what she was doing. As best I can quote her, she said, "Tubedude catches his by dragging floating bait along the bottom, so thats what I am doing". She is a fan of Tubedude and makes sure I read his posts - something about I should try to learn how to fish better....I was going to tell her that this was a bit different than dragging fligs behind a tube, but she then said something following her bait. Sure enough, I turned on my light and shined it out and a real big cat was trailing it like a great white would. She screamed and tried to do the Musky figure 8 at the dock to get him to bite. He followed that around then looked up, and slowly glided away. That was a new one for me but pretty cool.
here is the video
https://youtu.be/NYsfeVCuFlM
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Where: Willard Bay, North Marina, night fishing off the handicap dock. We wanted to try it out and see how it would work for Buckwheats wheelchair. It will work great.
Conditions: a brisk breeze but not bad inside the harbor. I did not get a temp. Fair amount of surface activity from carp all night as well as some occasional bait fish activity
Gear: We used our big Blue cat rods that we had from our time living in Alabama on a work assignment. A bit overkill but Cookie had three blowups the night before and insisted I gear up for bigger fish. Ran a couple on traditional sliding bait rigs and two on modified Santee rigs. The Santee rigs got by far the most action. Bait was frozen minnows and cut bait. We also used worms but did not get any takes on them.
We threw the bait towards the edge of the vegetation in about 5-8 ft of water, thinking the cats would come up shallow as night came on to chase some grub from the shrubbery. The idea seemed to work as we did not get action on the one I kept out more towards the middle. All the bites on the shallow set rods.
Most of the action was just at sundown, but we had steady action into the night, too.
My favorite part came as we were pulling up to head out. It was pitch dark and I could hear Cookie slow reeling in her rods and what looked like jigging action going on. So I wandered over and asked her what she was doing. As best I can quote her, she said, "Tubedude catches his by dragging floating bait along the bottom, so thats what I am doing". She is a fan of Tubedude and makes sure I read his posts - something about I should try to learn how to fish better....I was going to tell her that this was a bit different than dragging fligs behind a tube, but she then said something following her bait. Sure enough, I turned on my light and shined it out and a real big cat was trailing it like a great white would. She screamed and tried to do the Musky figure 8 at the dock to get him to bite. He followed that around then looked up, and slowly glided away. That was a new one for me but pretty cool.
here is the video
https://youtu.be/NYsfeVCuFlM
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