05-09-2005, 10:44 PM
I spent this weekend in the Basin. It started Saturday by stopping by Kayote's house and picking him and My New Kayak up. As we were loading up the yaks It started to Rain. We were going to try Matt Warner Reservoir but Kayote thought It would be snowing with a nasty wind. Then We thought Pelican but it has been so cold I didn't think that it would be very active. So we settled on Brough Reservoir.
We made a few stops in town before we got to Brough about 9:30 am. Brough is a small reservoir with Big browns and big fat slimers It is a Artificial Flies and Lures body of water. We unloaded the yak's and started across the lake and to my suprise we had the lake to our selfs. There were people fishing from shore. We noticed that all but 2 were using bait. Where were the Fish Cop's when you need them.
We fished from 9:45am to 6pm. We didn't find any big browns or slimers but we did hook into some cookie cuter slime- bows. all round 12-14".Kayote caught 9. I caught 6. We were using shad raps. Only one color seemed to work. It was not fast fishing but it sure was nice to be out on the water with a good fishing buddy even if the weather was not so good. The wind was blowing all day but white caps came up around 5:30 pm and forced us off the water.
On Sunday I fished Steinaker from the yak. I fished from 7:30 am to 12:30 pm. the water was flat it was easy paddleing for a while. I hooked up 9 slime-bows and then decided to fish for bass. I used jigs, spinners, Plastics and even buzzers with out much luck. I switch to cranks and then boom. I hooked into large bucket mouth that did a nice tail dance for me. It was 4lbs and ready to spawn so I let it go. My heart almost stopped on the way back to the beach. I was in deep water just paddling along when boom my drag starts to sing the yaks get span around It starts to pull me. I grab my pole and set the hook and Had it on for about 30 seconds then It came unbottoned. I did end up with a little piece of fish lips on my hook.
I have a second hand report for Matt Warner. Good fish with Powerbait. The road going up are clear but muddy. Calder and Crouse are filling and should be planted in a few weeks.
I ended up paddling for about 13 hours this weekend. Life is good
Tincanfsh
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We made a few stops in town before we got to Brough about 9:30 am. Brough is a small reservoir with Big browns and big fat slimers It is a Artificial Flies and Lures body of water. We unloaded the yak's and started across the lake and to my suprise we had the lake to our selfs. There were people fishing from shore. We noticed that all but 2 were using bait. Where were the Fish Cop's when you need them.
We fished from 9:45am to 6pm. We didn't find any big browns or slimers but we did hook into some cookie cuter slime- bows. all round 12-14".Kayote caught 9. I caught 6. We were using shad raps. Only one color seemed to work. It was not fast fishing but it sure was nice to be out on the water with a good fishing buddy even if the weather was not so good. The wind was blowing all day but white caps came up around 5:30 pm and forced us off the water.
On Sunday I fished Steinaker from the yak. I fished from 7:30 am to 12:30 pm. the water was flat it was easy paddleing for a while. I hooked up 9 slime-bows and then decided to fish for bass. I used jigs, spinners, Plastics and even buzzers with out much luck. I switch to cranks and then boom. I hooked into large bucket mouth that did a nice tail dance for me. It was 4lbs and ready to spawn so I let it go. My heart almost stopped on the way back to the beach. I was in deep water just paddling along when boom my drag starts to sing the yaks get span around It starts to pull me. I grab my pole and set the hook and Had it on for about 30 seconds then It came unbottoned. I did end up with a little piece of fish lips on my hook.
I have a second hand report for Matt Warner. Good fish with Powerbait. The road going up are clear but muddy. Calder and Crouse are filling and should be planted in a few weeks.
I ended up paddling for about 13 hours this weekend. Life is good
Tincanfsh
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