11-10-2007, 01:34 AM
[cool] [font "Times New Roman"][size 3][blue]TubeBabe has fished Huntington twice before but had never caught a tiger trout yet. We set out to correct that today, and we did it in fine fashion.[/blue][/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3][blue]TubeBabe came back from Arizona last Saturday with an “exhaustion cold”. She has been “barking” a lot and I wondered if it was a good idea to get her out in the cold air. She did okay on Jordanelle Wednesday, so we pushed the go button for Huntington this morning. [/blue][/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3][blue]After the cool nights of the past week, I was expecting to find low 20’s and ice around the edge of the lake. Surprise. Air temp was a balmy 31 when we launched at 8:30 AM and there was only a little bit of ¼ inch ice extending out maybe 20 feet from shore. Piece of cake. We took on an inch of ice at Willard last year. Water temp was just under 40 at launch.[/blue][/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3][blue]Also on the plus side is that the lake has not dropped any more in the last two weeks. The shoreline and depths are exactly the same as when Flycasting and I hit it then.[/blue][/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3][blue]The fishing was the same, only different. There were no fish visible on the bottom, with sonar, but we did see some cruisers not too far under the surface. Bubbles and flies got quick response. I hit the water at 8:30 and had my first cookie cutter 13 inch tiger within 10 minutes. Followed it up with a couple more before TubeBabe got the hang of the presentation and caught her first ever tiger trout. [/blue][/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3][blue]She didn’t stop there, and pretty well kept pace with me throughout the morning. In fact, she probably tied me for largest fish too…about 16”. No big colorful fish today, but plenty of scrappy sub sixteens.[/blue][/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3][blue]As usual, TubeBabe stuck with the same two rigs I put together for her before we left. One was a bubble and fly. The other was a small marabou jig (1/32 oz. black with chartreuse eye) with a fly dropper about two feet up. Since she wasn’t messin’ with tackle all the time, she concentrated on fishing and paced me pretty well. She did change patterns a couple of times when I used the walkie talkie to let her know the fish were changing preference.[/blue][/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3][blue]Me? I kept changing flies and jigs every few minutes, trying to find either what they liked best or something they would not hit. In the early part of the morning we both did best on some variation of my “California Coachman” pattern. As it got brighter, the fish went lower in the water column and black patterns did better. My “Hiltons” kicked tiger butt…especially the new red tailed model and the green back black.[/blue][/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3][blue]Two weeks ago, most of our fish came on jigs bounced off the bottom beneath us in 25 – 28 feet of water. I didn’t score a fish today on the gaudier jigs vertical jigging. But, I did catch quite a few on the little black marabou jig, with a fly dropper, by casting and counting down and then retrieving through the water column.[/blue][/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3][blue]I also tried “fly shotting”…drop shotting with a double fly rig. Got several on it, including my largest on my “white rainbow”. [/blue][/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3][blue]I usually don’t count fish. But today I said I wanted to see how long it took me to catch the first ten. About 45 minutes. And, by 10:30 (2 hrs) I had released 25. It slowed down about 11 and we got off the water just after noon, but I know we both got at least another ten or so after I quit counting. [/blue][/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3][blue]No doubt about it. TubeBabe trashed her tiger jinx today. She done good.[/blue][/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3][blue]Water temp was about 41 at departure and air temp was 53. I am betting that will change soon.[/blue][/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][blue][size 3]Also, looked down at Fairview Lakes and noticed that maybe a third of the lake had a big thin sheet of ice floating on it. Didn’t see Fuzzy out there though.[/size][/blue] [/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3][blue]TubeBabe came back from Arizona last Saturday with an “exhaustion cold”. She has been “barking” a lot and I wondered if it was a good idea to get her out in the cold air. She did okay on Jordanelle Wednesday, so we pushed the go button for Huntington this morning. [/blue][/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3][blue]After the cool nights of the past week, I was expecting to find low 20’s and ice around the edge of the lake. Surprise. Air temp was a balmy 31 when we launched at 8:30 AM and there was only a little bit of ¼ inch ice extending out maybe 20 feet from shore. Piece of cake. We took on an inch of ice at Willard last year. Water temp was just under 40 at launch.[/blue][/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3][blue]Also on the plus side is that the lake has not dropped any more in the last two weeks. The shoreline and depths are exactly the same as when Flycasting and I hit it then.[/blue][/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3][blue]The fishing was the same, only different. There were no fish visible on the bottom, with sonar, but we did see some cruisers not too far under the surface. Bubbles and flies got quick response. I hit the water at 8:30 and had my first cookie cutter 13 inch tiger within 10 minutes. Followed it up with a couple more before TubeBabe got the hang of the presentation and caught her first ever tiger trout. [/blue][/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3][blue]She didn’t stop there, and pretty well kept pace with me throughout the morning. In fact, she probably tied me for largest fish too…about 16”. No big colorful fish today, but plenty of scrappy sub sixteens.[/blue][/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3][blue]As usual, TubeBabe stuck with the same two rigs I put together for her before we left. One was a bubble and fly. The other was a small marabou jig (1/32 oz. black with chartreuse eye) with a fly dropper about two feet up. Since she wasn’t messin’ with tackle all the time, she concentrated on fishing and paced me pretty well. She did change patterns a couple of times when I used the walkie talkie to let her know the fish were changing preference.[/blue][/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3][blue]Me? I kept changing flies and jigs every few minutes, trying to find either what they liked best or something they would not hit. In the early part of the morning we both did best on some variation of my “California Coachman” pattern. As it got brighter, the fish went lower in the water column and black patterns did better. My “Hiltons” kicked tiger butt…especially the new red tailed model and the green back black.[/blue][/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3][blue]Two weeks ago, most of our fish came on jigs bounced off the bottom beneath us in 25 – 28 feet of water. I didn’t score a fish today on the gaudier jigs vertical jigging. But, I did catch quite a few on the little black marabou jig, with a fly dropper, by casting and counting down and then retrieving through the water column.[/blue][/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3][blue]I also tried “fly shotting”…drop shotting with a double fly rig. Got several on it, including my largest on my “white rainbow”. [/blue][/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3][blue]I usually don’t count fish. But today I said I wanted to see how long it took me to catch the first ten. About 45 minutes. And, by 10:30 (2 hrs) I had released 25. It slowed down about 11 and we got off the water just after noon, but I know we both got at least another ten or so after I quit counting. [/blue][/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3][blue]No doubt about it. TubeBabe trashed her tiger jinx today. She done good.[/blue][/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][size 3][blue]Water temp was about 41 at departure and air temp was 53. I am betting that will change soon.[/blue][/size][/font]
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[font "Times New Roman"][blue][size 3]Also, looked down at Fairview Lakes and noticed that maybe a third of the lake had a big thin sheet of ice floating on it. Didn’t see Fuzzy out there though.[/size][/blue] [/font]
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