Tubin' Lindon

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[cool][#0000ff]Iffy weather again but looked doable for a quick morning shot. That was okay with me since I had to make a short day of it anyhooters.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Drove up to the ramp at Lindon in the dark. Well, not really dark. The lights shined into the water and it was alive with little white bass. Recognizing an opportunity to score some prime bait I rigged my ultralight with a couple of bitty jig heads tipped with a tiny bit of worm. Many doubles later I quit so that I could go put them to use. Only took out ten. Caught fish on every one of them.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Water temp 70 at daybreak and about 3 degrees warmer at noon departure. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I wanted to hit the bubbleup to see what was there. Hoped for some walleyes but with the 70 degree water I didn't have much hope. Good thing. No walleyes were harmed on this trip.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]No boats launched or motored by during the entire morning. Awwww-riiiiiiiight. My kinda conditions. It was really sorta lonesome...but not lonely. The whities and the kitties kept me plenty of company.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]There was a pretty good outflow from the bubbleup early but it slowed and dropped off to almost nothing before 9 am. After that there was still a barely discernible ripple on the surface near the buoys but not the heavy flow that brings in the fishies.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Started out by tossing a tandem jig rig. Doubles were the rule rather than the exception. The whites were stacked up next to the flow and anything that came through got pounded. One would hit the first jig and then you could feel another one climbing on the loose second jig. Lost track of the doubles and forgetaboudit on the singles. At least a grundle and a half. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As usual, I started working through my lure boxes, trying to find something they WOULDN'T hit. Couldn't do it. Got them on all sizes, shapes and colors. They hit spinners. They hit crankbaits. They even hit the whole small white bass I was using to drag for walleye.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Speaking of the small white bass. I finally got around to dragging a minnow and promptly caught a decent cookie cutter kitty. Instead of rebaiting with another minnow, I sliced a small white bass a few times along the side and send it out with a big red hook in its nose. Fish pizza. I delivered and they bit...big time. Several cats and several larger white bass all snarfed up those little white bass like they hadn't eaten anything in a week.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I was not really surprised to catch adult white bass on the bitty bass. But I was surprised to reel up another small whitie hanging on to the one I had rigged for bait. Not sure which was biggest...or what the second one had in mind. But it held on to the bait one until I started to lift it clear of the water.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]The fish were still biting well when I cranked up my trolling motor and threw a roostertail (yeah, right) back to the harbor. I had planned to head back about noonish. I did stop inside the marina to pitch a few plastics and got some more whities...along with a lot of "rattle rattle" hits from the little ones.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I didn't keep any cats today. And I only kept a few of the white bass. Needed some fillets to replace the stash I used up in a big pot of chowder for a family fish fry. I figured I should keep 25 to 30 and idly tossed one in the basket once in a while. I ended up with 28. Right in the middle.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Sometimes it is nice to have a bit of solitude...or at least have a big lake to yourself. Works for me.[/#0000ff]
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[Bluegillman]

Wow u got a better fishing time than three different people who told me they went out for the Labor day weekend of fishing and none of them did any better than u did in one day of fishing!
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[idahopanfish]

That sounds like great funnnnn!
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[TubeDude]

[quote Bluegillman]Wow u got a better fishing time than three different people who told me they went out for the Labor day weekend of fishing and none of them did any better than u did in one day of fishing![/quote]

[cool][#0000ff]My experience is that fishing is seldom as good on a big holiday weekend. Too many other fishermen competing for the same fish. And a lot of extra boating activity tends to make the fish go into a neutral or negative mode.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]There are exceptions. And if you can find a spot full of willing fish it doesn't make much difference. The fish don't look at calendars.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]But, it is more enjoyable to fish on days when there is not all of that other distraction going on. And the fishing is usually better too.[/#0000ff]
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[albinotrout]

I as well prefer the weekdays over the weekends but now I have to make the weekends work for me. At least I still have mondays.[cool]
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[cool][#0000ff]The positive side of that is the weekend traffic on most lakes is going to drop a lot from now until the end of the year. Colder temps and lots of anglers picking up hunting gear will take some pressure off the SERIOUS fishermen.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Heck, I even go out on weekends during the late fall sometimes. When fishing is good you gotta take advantage of every opportunity.[/#0000ff]
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