05-24-2009, 03:13 AM
[font "Courier New"][#000080][size 3]Well, I don't know if UThunter is going to make a post... but here's my version of the day.
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Okay, now for the detailed report [:p]
I beat him to our meeting place at Flying J (see? I really can be up at the crack of dawn! So HA!), and we were out on the water about 7:30 A.M. or so.
I suggested Freeway Bay, since that seems to be one of the popular spots. He was trying a bottom bouncer (or at least that's what it looked like). His wife had a gray jig, and I had a yellow rattle crankbait. I'm not sure what his daugher had.
About 9 or so, I think (I wasn't really keeping track of time), his wife got a Wiper. It was decently sized. After taking it out of the net, UThunter went to put it in the live well...just as soon as we got finished admiring it. It was a good little fishy, and sat still with no squirming or even gill flaring. When he said "I estimate it weighs about..." it flipped right out of his hands, and back into the water!
I changed to a gray rattle crankbait, figuring maybe that was a good color as we had finally gotten something with it! Later, the little girl (not me, the other one!) got a Walleye on her line. But while it was being reeled in, it decided to go find something else to eat.
About 1:30 P.M., we finally gave up, because we were all tired (and Emily was kind of bored). Decided to go home and take a nap, try again later.
Once again, I was first one to the meeting place! Go me!
On the water about 7 P.M., and we headed over to the light pole. Though it was rather stormy (I sooo wanted to take pictures, because the clouds and the mist on the mountain was so purdy! But I had left my camera in the car... feh!). After only about half an hour, if even that long, we decided to head back. Halfway there, we got TOTALLY SLAMMED!!! with rain. My coat doesn't have a hood, so they let me borrow a spare coat to put over myself. I guess I didn't put it far enough over, because when we got back to the marina, I was soakin' wet. But it wasn't so bad, as it wasn't really cold. Or at least not nearly as cold as it was when me and Bassrods got hailed on last May.
So... does that count as a skunk? We did boat a fish, but it still got away!
As for myself, I did get truly skunked... yet AGAIN!!!! I'll get something this year, if it kills me! At least I'll die doing what I love, huh? LOL
Oh yeah, and water temperature was about 65F or so, give or take a couple degrees throughout the day. Also, we had depths of about 15-20 feet at Freeway Bay, and over by the light pole was 25! I remember last year, when 10 feet seemed deep.
I'ma go soothe my skunkiness with a bubble bath, and be girly now (me and UThunter were the only ones not grossed out by the worms! LOL)
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[size 5][size 3]It was fun! Even with the storm.[/size]
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Okay, now for the detailed report [:p]
I beat him to our meeting place at Flying J (see? I really can be up at the crack of dawn! So HA!), and we were out on the water about 7:30 A.M. or so.
I suggested Freeway Bay, since that seems to be one of the popular spots. He was trying a bottom bouncer (or at least that's what it looked like). His wife had a gray jig, and I had a yellow rattle crankbait. I'm not sure what his daugher had.
About 9 or so, I think (I wasn't really keeping track of time), his wife got a Wiper. It was decently sized. After taking it out of the net, UThunter went to put it in the live well...just as soon as we got finished admiring it. It was a good little fishy, and sat still with no squirming or even gill flaring. When he said "I estimate it weighs about..." it flipped right out of his hands, and back into the water!
I changed to a gray rattle crankbait, figuring maybe that was a good color as we had finally gotten something with it! Later, the little girl (not me, the other one!) got a Walleye on her line. But while it was being reeled in, it decided to go find something else to eat.
About 1:30 P.M., we finally gave up, because we were all tired (and Emily was kind of bored). Decided to go home and take a nap, try again later.
Once again, I was first one to the meeting place! Go me!
On the water about 7 P.M., and we headed over to the light pole. Though it was rather stormy (I sooo wanted to take pictures, because the clouds and the mist on the mountain was so purdy! But I had left my camera in the car... feh!). After only about half an hour, if even that long, we decided to head back. Halfway there, we got TOTALLY SLAMMED!!! with rain. My coat doesn't have a hood, so they let me borrow a spare coat to put over myself. I guess I didn't put it far enough over, because when we got back to the marina, I was soakin' wet. But it wasn't so bad, as it wasn't really cold. Or at least not nearly as cold as it was when me and Bassrods got hailed on last May.
So... does that count as a skunk? We did boat a fish, but it still got away!
As for myself, I did get truly skunked... yet AGAIN!!!! I'll get something this year, if it kills me! At least I'll die doing what I love, huh? LOL
Oh yeah, and water temperature was about 65F or so, give or take a couple degrees throughout the day. Also, we had depths of about 15-20 feet at Freeway Bay, and over by the light pole was 25! I remember last year, when 10 feet seemed deep.
I'ma go soothe my skunkiness with a bubble bath, and be girly now (me and UThunter were the only ones not grossed out by the worms! LOL)
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