11-08-2006, 03:40 AM
[cool][#0000ff]Today was election day. Right? We elected to go fishing, at Huntington Lake. Kentofnsl, Beeman???? and myself blasted off from Salt Lake at 5 AM, met Fuzzyfisher for some handoffs at 6:30, in Fairview and we were at the lake about 7ish. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I aired up my tube and got dressed in my fancy voting outfit (neoprenes). Kent and Bob set up the Folboat and wheeled it down to the water. The level has dropped a lot since I was there in midsummer. Air temp was above freezing (heat wave) so no gloves and no ice in the guides. Water temp was about 38, so it won't be too much longer until hard water time. (There was ice on a runoff pond on the top of Skyline, and it looked like some ice on one end of Fairview Lakes.)[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We wondered if the full moon hanging over the west end of the lake was going to jinx us. Setting up excuses in advance. But, it turned out to not be a factor. It was calm early and then the westerly BREEZES started up and blew all day. Coulda been worse, but I did a lot of kicking just to hold position.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Saw a few risers early, but no action on bubble and fly. I got a couple of small pale fish (females) fairly quickly, on bait tipped Roadrunners. Bites were few and light. It took kent a while to catch his first, and Bob even longer. They used the electric trolling motor to head to the west end of the lake, while I kept jigging where I had caught a few fish. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Shortly before noon, Kent announced on the walkie talkie that they were into fish. I started to kick in that direction but the W came up and I could barely hold position, much less kick a half mile up the lake. So, I stayed put and fished with more focus and intensity. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]For about two or three hours, in mid day, we were all catching fish. We had seen a lot of fish on sonar before, but they all had their little mouths closed. Once they started biting it was fun fun fun. I had one run of five fish on five straight drops.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We used a variety of jigs, tipped with minnow pieces or nightcrawlers. I even caught 3 or 4 fish on small pieces of carp tidbits. I took five rods and caught fish on all of them. I also caught fish on just about every new jig I tried. But, I think I noticed better results on whites or chartreuses. A couple of my fire tiger creations really got some whacks. But, Kent and I were comparing notes on the way home and we agreed that when the fish were on, any BDS (Bait Delivery System) seemed to work as well as another.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Those tiger trout are beautiful, especially this time of year (spawn). Even though they are hybrids they still color up and go through the motions. As combinations of brook trout and brown trout they can show colors and attitudes of both. They are definitely meat eaters. Minnows are a prime bait. And, they hit hard and fight hard. No mistaking them for wimpy cutts.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We all caught quite a few fish today. The average size was about 13"-15". I had one over 17" and a 16" to go with a 14" silvery female and a 15"er. Don't know if the other boys measured their keepers but they looked around 16 or 17. We all released many nice 15 inchers that a lot of anglers would have loved to catch.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]While we did see a few fish cruise through at mid depth, we could not get hits on anything fished much above the bottom today. Most of our fish were in 19 to 22 feet of water, a foot or two off the bottom. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]There were several groups of bank tanglers who stayed only a short time before leaving fishless.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I aired up my tube and got dressed in my fancy voting outfit (neoprenes). Kent and Bob set up the Folboat and wheeled it down to the water. The level has dropped a lot since I was there in midsummer. Air temp was above freezing (heat wave) so no gloves and no ice in the guides. Water temp was about 38, so it won't be too much longer until hard water time. (There was ice on a runoff pond on the top of Skyline, and it looked like some ice on one end of Fairview Lakes.)[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We wondered if the full moon hanging over the west end of the lake was going to jinx us. Setting up excuses in advance. But, it turned out to not be a factor. It was calm early and then the westerly BREEZES started up and blew all day. Coulda been worse, but I did a lot of kicking just to hold position.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Saw a few risers early, but no action on bubble and fly. I got a couple of small pale fish (females) fairly quickly, on bait tipped Roadrunners. Bites were few and light. It took kent a while to catch his first, and Bob even longer. They used the electric trolling motor to head to the west end of the lake, while I kept jigging where I had caught a few fish. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Shortly before noon, Kent announced on the walkie talkie that they were into fish. I started to kick in that direction but the W came up and I could barely hold position, much less kick a half mile up the lake. So, I stayed put and fished with more focus and intensity. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]For about two or three hours, in mid day, we were all catching fish. We had seen a lot of fish on sonar before, but they all had their little mouths closed. Once they started biting it was fun fun fun. I had one run of five fish on five straight drops.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We used a variety of jigs, tipped with minnow pieces or nightcrawlers. I even caught 3 or 4 fish on small pieces of carp tidbits. I took five rods and caught fish on all of them. I also caught fish on just about every new jig I tried. But, I think I noticed better results on whites or chartreuses. A couple of my fire tiger creations really got some whacks. But, Kent and I were comparing notes on the way home and we agreed that when the fish were on, any BDS (Bait Delivery System) seemed to work as well as another.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Those tiger trout are beautiful, especially this time of year (spawn). Even though they are hybrids they still color up and go through the motions. As combinations of brook trout and brown trout they can show colors and attitudes of both. They are definitely meat eaters. Minnows are a prime bait. And, they hit hard and fight hard. No mistaking them for wimpy cutts.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]We all caught quite a few fish today. The average size was about 13"-15". I had one over 17" and a 16" to go with a 14" silvery female and a 15"er. Don't know if the other boys measured their keepers but they looked around 16 or 17. We all released many nice 15 inchers that a lot of anglers would have loved to catch.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]While we did see a few fish cruise through at mid depth, we could not get hits on anything fished much above the bottom today. Most of our fish were in 19 to 22 feet of water, a foot or two off the bottom. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]There were several groups of bank tanglers who stayed only a short time before leaving fishless.[/#0000ff]
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