05-13-2006, 02:30 PM
well i think most of my work is done this year tell fall.. so now i'm home o do some major fishing this summer..
started it off by going to Joe's Valley last thursday and friday.. the lake is low from what it was this time last year..
we got there around 4:00 in the afternoon thursday started out trolling the east side..
i put a J-13 perch on for the first drop.. well as i was letting it out i got slamed hard.. after about a 5 min fight i got in a 5 lbs rainbow.. realy beautifull fish.. then seeing that i have not used my camrea for so long it would not work for some reason.. (dang it)..
so i put the 25" rainbow back thinking that if we are going to be doing this well we will have plenty of fish for the trip home.. lol.. yeah right.. (rember there is a slot limit of 15" to 22" and a 2 fish limit at JV)
well ok after starting out so well we thought it was going to be a good day trolling... NOT !. we trolled for another 2 hrs not a dang thing..
so we decided to go over to the inlet and make bait for some night jigging..
this was a hoot catching chub,cutt's,and splake all at the same time.. all small but on ultra light it's a hoot..
well afrer getting some chub in the buckit we went out to get set up for some night jigging..
well we jigged the crap out of it for about 4 hours after the sun went down.. we tryed deep and shallow all we could find was some small splake and cutt's.. so headed in for the night..
hit it bright and early the next morning started out trolling the east side.. but no luck there and the sun takes a long time to get to that side.. so we put some small stuff on and went for the shallows of the west side..
fishing was fast for the most part small splake and cutt's on tap over there most the morning into the afternoon..
well we tryed some bait,jigging,and sleeping up by the inlet on the north end for about 3 hours.. after some lunch we tryed the trolling one last time over on the east end... no luck again..
packed it up and went home..
good first trip for the year tho..
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started it off by going to Joe's Valley last thursday and friday.. the lake is low from what it was this time last year..
we got there around 4:00 in the afternoon thursday started out trolling the east side..
i put a J-13 perch on for the first drop.. well as i was letting it out i got slamed hard.. after about a 5 min fight i got in a 5 lbs rainbow.. realy beautifull fish.. then seeing that i have not used my camrea for so long it would not work for some reason.. (dang it)..
so i put the 25" rainbow back thinking that if we are going to be doing this well we will have plenty of fish for the trip home.. lol.. yeah right.. (rember there is a slot limit of 15" to 22" and a 2 fish limit at JV)
well ok after starting out so well we thought it was going to be a good day trolling... NOT !. we trolled for another 2 hrs not a dang thing..
so we decided to go over to the inlet and make bait for some night jigging..
this was a hoot catching chub,cutt's,and splake all at the same time.. all small but on ultra light it's a hoot..
well afrer getting some chub in the buckit we went out to get set up for some night jigging..
well we jigged the crap out of it for about 4 hours after the sun went down.. we tryed deep and shallow all we could find was some small splake and cutt's.. so headed in for the night..
hit it bright and early the next morning started out trolling the east side.. but no luck there and the sun takes a long time to get to that side.. so we put some small stuff on and went for the shallows of the west side..
fishing was fast for the most part small splake and cutt's on tap over there most the morning into the afternoon..
well we tryed some bait,jigging,and sleeping up by the inlet on the north end for about 3 hours.. after some lunch we tryed the trolling one last time over on the east end... no luck again..
packed it up and went home..
good first trip for the year tho..
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