First Tubing Trip to Lincoln Beach

[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]Made my first tubing exploratory trip to Lincoln Beach today. Air temp 28 and water temp 38. Not quite spring yet.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Didn't figure the walleyes would be rolling on the rocks in front of the springs yet so I opted for playing with whities and kitties. Found a few whities in the little pump house bay to the south of the boat channel. Also found bazillions of carp. Couldn't get past the carp to catch whities. If they didn't slurp in the jig they would get snagged in the tail, dorsal or pectoral fins. Did my part to help the junies. Several fancy gillectomies were performed on those silly carp that crawled into my net. Others arranged their own early release...not for good behavior.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]White bass were not schooled. One here and one there. Mostly right up against the reeds in only 3 to 4 feet of water...and shallower. And almost all were underfooters. I did keep a half dozen for some scampi and noodles.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Got tired of bending my stick and stretching my string on golden bonefish and kicked out into the open lake to drag a minnow. Kept pitching plastics with one rod while "minnerin'" with the bait rod. Got three pickups on meat. Hooked all three. Very slow takes and had to finesse them. Two were cookie cutter kitties and one was a small bullhead (mudder).[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Bite seemed to shut off on everything about 10:30 so I moved back over to the south dike and pitched plastic off the end. Got a few more small white bass and then nothing more. Headed for the ramp and dragged plastic and watched sonar all the way down the channel. No fish to be seed and none to be catched neither. Couldn't buy a hit inside.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]So, I went home.[/#0000ff]
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[cpierce]

Nice looking day and fish! Your basket is filling nicely again. Spring must be here!
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[flygoddess]

Ouch! I sat in Techaglass for ONE HOUR!!! They replaced three windshields, then Finally my car and it took 10 minutes....they need to get better organized. Missed ya today bud.
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[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]Definitely ain't FULL spring...but close enough to get us tubing types nervous.[/#0000ff]
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[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]Sorry. But glad it was you and not me.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I musta thunk about ya a hunnert times...every time a golden bonefish slurped in my jig...or as I watched them prowling and surface rolling all over that cove. They were active and on the hunt. The only down side is that in that cold water they did not have the strength and stamina that they have in warmer water. Didn't take long to whup 'em and they didn't put on a very flashy fight. Still...a fish is a fish is a fish...and better than sitting around to get a new windshield.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Looking ahead this week...Friday might be better than Thursday. But there is next week...and the week after. Plenty of fishing in front of us and it will only keep getting better.[/#0000ff]
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[flygoddess]

I got nuttun to do Friday.
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[TubeDude]

[cool][#0000ff]Keep it open and stay in touch.[/#0000ff]
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[albinotrout]

[quote TubeDude][cool][#0000ff]Definitely ain't FULL spring...but close enough to get us tubing types nervous.[/#0000ff][/quote]

I was just thinking yesterday that it is almost time to hit the water down on UL. Good to hear the temps aren't up to where I would prefer yet. Thanks for the report![cool]
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