05-18-2006, 08:56 PM
First of all -no picks. The wife still refuses to take her $2000 camera with us fishing and we haven't gotten round to buying an el cheapo yet.
So for now the best I can do is offer you folks a report.
From 10h00 to 15h30 the tally was outstanding.
My wife:
1x 22" LMB 4 1/2 lb
1x 16" pickrel
2x 16" crappie
1x 12" bluegill
Lost a big bass.
Me:
1x 22" LMB 5 1/2 lb
1x 18" LMB 3 1/4 lb
1x 28" pickrel
1x 18" pickrel
1x 15" pickrel
2x 17" yellow perch
1x 13" yellow perch
Best day of the year so far. All the LMB, perch and pickrel were nailed in shallow structure and tree overhangs except for my biggest LMB. I nailed him off the edge of a ledge with some deeper structure.
The large pickrel, yellow perch and both my bass were nailed on a natural RAPALA X-RAP. My other's were caught on Foxtail tail spinners and a RAPALA SHALLOW DIVER.
My wife's LMB was hooked on a natural bomber.
The bass she lost was hooked on a natural X-RAP.
The rest of her fish were banged on a #4 PANTHER MARTIN in yellow/red pattern.
In NY it is really difficult to find places that aren't fished out.
The two places we frequent now are my friend's private lake which none of the residents fish and it has a nice fish population. The other is a lake which takes some hiking to get to (thus few except hard-core naturalists go there) and has monsters in it. Somewhere in there is the Loch Ness. It took my wife's Blade Dancer in an explosion of water, showing us only his tail (which was massive) and snapped her line as though it were rotten cotton before she had time to adjust her drag.
We keep this place a secret between us as we are strictly release fisher people and are fearful of it being over fished.
Anyhow, it was a wonderful day - cool in the morning and only warm in the afternoon.
Tubing that lake is simply paradise to us. Deer prance around, hawk swoop from the skies and snatch fish from the surface, birds dart past you in an insect feeding frenzy. A true dreamworld in NY state. May God hold this place dear and give it protection.
-ABT-
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So for now the best I can do is offer you folks a report.
From 10h00 to 15h30 the tally was outstanding.
My wife:
1x 22" LMB 4 1/2 lb
1x 16" pickrel
2x 16" crappie
1x 12" bluegill
Lost a big bass.
Me:
1x 22" LMB 5 1/2 lb
1x 18" LMB 3 1/4 lb
1x 28" pickrel
1x 18" pickrel
1x 15" pickrel
2x 17" yellow perch
1x 13" yellow perch
Best day of the year so far. All the LMB, perch and pickrel were nailed in shallow structure and tree overhangs except for my biggest LMB. I nailed him off the edge of a ledge with some deeper structure.
The large pickrel, yellow perch and both my bass were nailed on a natural RAPALA X-RAP. My other's were caught on Foxtail tail spinners and a RAPALA SHALLOW DIVER.
My wife's LMB was hooked on a natural bomber.
The bass she lost was hooked on a natural X-RAP.
The rest of her fish were banged on a #4 PANTHER MARTIN in yellow/red pattern.
In NY it is really difficult to find places that aren't fished out.
The two places we frequent now are my friend's private lake which none of the residents fish and it has a nice fish population. The other is a lake which takes some hiking to get to (thus few except hard-core naturalists go there) and has monsters in it. Somewhere in there is the Loch Ness. It took my wife's Blade Dancer in an explosion of water, showing us only his tail (which was massive) and snapped her line as though it were rotten cotton before she had time to adjust her drag.
We keep this place a secret between us as we are strictly release fisher people and are fearful of it being over fished.
Anyhow, it was a wonderful day - cool in the morning and only warm in the afternoon.
Tubing that lake is simply paradise to us. Deer prance around, hawk swoop from the skies and snatch fish from the surface, birds dart past you in an insect feeding frenzy. A true dreamworld in NY state. May God hold this place dear and give it protection.
-ABT-
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