08-15-2003, 10:28 PM
Just wanted to report on my trip to the bubble up this morning. I grabbed my little bro again, and first we headed out onto the provo dike to check out fuzzy's secret fishing hole at the end of the dike. It was so shallow and we would have had to wade out a ways, I figured that they would come in that shallow at night, but probably not in late morning or noon, so I turned around and went to the bubble up.
Got to the bubble up at 10:00. Walked out on the pipe as far as we could go. Tied on my trusty T-swivel rig, with a worm on both hooks, while I was letting my carp meat thaw from being in the freezer. My little bro. caught two bullhead, about 12 inches long each, and I caught another one. Then, when the carp meat thawed out, around 11:30 I threw on a 1 inch piece of carp meat onto one of my hooks, and one of his, so we were now both fishing a worm and a piece of carp meat. Casted out just out from where the bubbles come out of the pipe. Within 5 minutes of having casted out, I just about lost my pole because it started shooting out into the water. I grabbed it in time, I didnt even set the hook because just picking up my pole set it good. It fought fairly hard, was a great fight. Nice channel cat measured 20 inches and I estimate it weighed about 3 lbs. It was hooked in the lip. I couldn't get the hook out, and I broke the hook with my pliers, so if anyone catches a channel with half a hook in his lip it was mine. [
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I tied on another hook and put on a new piece of carp meat. I casted to the same spot, just north of the bubbles/pipe. It hadn't sat there more than 2 minutes when his big brother hit. I set the hook hard after giving him a little slack. I knew it was another channel, but he didn't fight quite as hard. When I got him in close, I couldn't bring him up to see him, and he bolted and started stripping line out. It was a lot of fun. When I finally got him up, he was about 20 inches as well, but quite a bit fatter. i guess about 4 lbs. Got nothing after that, but left only half hour later (had to come into work sometime [
]). It was a bit breezy off an on while we were out, and a few clouds would cover the sun from time to time. The water is really green! Please excuse the long post!
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Got to the bubble up at 10:00. Walked out on the pipe as far as we could go. Tied on my trusty T-swivel rig, with a worm on both hooks, while I was letting my carp meat thaw from being in the freezer. My little bro. caught two bullhead, about 12 inches long each, and I caught another one. Then, when the carp meat thawed out, around 11:30 I threw on a 1 inch piece of carp meat onto one of my hooks, and one of his, so we were now both fishing a worm and a piece of carp meat. Casted out just out from where the bubbles come out of the pipe. Within 5 minutes of having casted out, I just about lost my pole because it started shooting out into the water. I grabbed it in time, I didnt even set the hook because just picking up my pole set it good. It fought fairly hard, was a great fight. Nice channel cat measured 20 inches and I estimate it weighed about 3 lbs. It was hooked in the lip. I couldn't get the hook out, and I broke the hook with my pliers, so if anyone catches a channel with half a hook in his lip it was mine. [
] I tied on another hook and put on a new piece of carp meat. I casted to the same spot, just north of the bubbles/pipe. It hadn't sat there more than 2 minutes when his big brother hit. I set the hook hard after giving him a little slack. I knew it was another channel, but he didn't fight quite as hard. When I got him in close, I couldn't bring him up to see him, and he bolted and started stripping line out. It was a lot of fun. When I finally got him up, he was about 20 inches as well, but quite a bit fatter. i guess about 4 lbs. Got nothing after that, but left only half hour later (had to come into work sometime [
]). It was a bit breezy off an on while we were out, and a few clouds would cover the sun from time to time. The water is really green! Please excuse the long post![signature]
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