06-02-2011, 05:01 AM
Fished Pelican and Starvation in the boat. No spawn at Pelican yet and I never turned on the finder so I didn't get a water temp. Lmb's are biting and in the shallows, never found any evidence of a guarded bed to my surprise. Bluegills hitting plastics twice their size like usual. Fun place to try new baits that I bought several years ago on sale [crazy]. Water is high and I didn't see as many carp as I did last spring...maybe they are waaaay back in the shallows??? (hopefully they died but I doubt it)
Starvation was 53.9* on Sunday. I'll skip the details, worst day of fishing in my life...I left my phone (camera) in my truck. My youngest,7, caught a 28" FAT brown on her second cast in 6' of water! Guesstimating at around 8+ lbs. I didn't even cast yet and the wifey was hollerin' for the net-17" 'bow. Monday got worse when I woke to snow at my trailer, snow on the boat cover. Beautiful pics of green plants and desert with snow...got blown off the lake around 10:21AM [crazy]but I did gain some karma by towing a boat back to the marina, I figured they weren't rowing a deep V for exercise-ran out of gas.
All rivers, creeks and farmland had plenty of water throughout my drive around the basin. Snow still packed into places I used to tent camp in the spring. Starvation is LOW and temps are going to rise in the low water, the spawn is going to be a bit different this year but the fish are healthy and the fry will have cover when the water rises. It works out for the best I hope.
Next trip is to the Gorge in a couple weeks and I'm hoping the weather settles a bit.
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Starvation was 53.9* on Sunday. I'll skip the details, worst day of fishing in my life...I left my phone (camera) in my truck. My youngest,7, caught a 28" FAT brown on her second cast in 6' of water! Guesstimating at around 8+ lbs. I didn't even cast yet and the wifey was hollerin' for the net-17" 'bow. Monday got worse when I woke to snow at my trailer, snow on the boat cover. Beautiful pics of green plants and desert with snow...got blown off the lake around 10:21AM [crazy]but I did gain some karma by towing a boat back to the marina, I figured they weren't rowing a deep V for exercise-ran out of gas.
All rivers, creeks and farmland had plenty of water throughout my drive around the basin. Snow still packed into places I used to tent camp in the spring. Starvation is LOW and temps are going to rise in the low water, the spawn is going to be a bit different this year but the fish are healthy and the fry will have cover when the water rises. It works out for the best I hope.
Next trip is to the Gorge in a couple weeks and I'm hoping the weather settles a bit.
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