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No wind this morning and sunny. Perfect day to take the family out to the lighthouse to see if we could catch E's first fish. She had been skunked on the last two trips with her brother having all the luck. After two stops at the bathroom for E, a.k.a Ms. Bitty Bladder, we got to the fort and put it. It was a perfect day.





We headed out to the light house and tried close in first. Nothing but pin fish. It didn't take long for the kids to get fidgety so we headed out to the flats. One thing about fishing with a 4 and 7 year old is that you have to be on your game. If we aren't cathing anything it quickly goes downhill. That's usually when they hit the cooler and mow through the snacks and juice boxes.

4 feet of water on the flats was the ticket. The girls were fishing in the back of the boat and the boys were in the front. E hooked a legal trout and hauled him in all by herself. Mom was making sure she didn't wind up in the drink of course.



C's fish got off. That's the breaks. Sorry C!



She landed one more short trout not long after that. We switched C to the back with E's rod, but he spent the rest of the time doing this.



The pin fish went through our bag of new penny Gulp pretty quick. It wasn't long before it was time to head back to the Fort to eat a little watermelon that had been chilling in the cooler all morning.

Short morning on the water, but a perfect family outing. Times like these remind you of how blessed we are!

By the way. The last two times we have fished with one orange CT and one yellow CT. ALL of the fish we catch are on the Orange. Both were fished with new penny gulp shrimp. Do you think there's anything to the color difference?

Way to go Miss Bitty Bladder. I see a new screen name popping up now.

Cool deal. Glad you finally got her hooked. (the pun was intended )

That's some real calm water... Glad the girl got her fish

Man, that water looks beautiful. Great trip for the kids

Perfect!
Love the video...

great day!

Good times indeed... Great report, and what a priceless video. I don't think there's much more significant a milestone in a child's life than first fish. I'm sure you and she will cherish that video for years to come.

I'm glad to see that the water was so awesome today; hopefully that will hold up for at least some of tomorrow.

I just have to put my two or three cents in on your comment about the CT colors. In spite of my love of fishing and outdoors in general, I'm a certifiable computer geek. I work designing and maintaining complex software and reporting systems, and have worked in the past as a data analyst (still do a lot of that for troubleshooting and design purposes). This work has scarred me for life in that I analyze the bejeesus out of everything. This combined with my addiction to fishing has led me to analyze every pattern, parameter, trend and relationship between weather, water conditions, location and tackle for the past several years now.

Normally, when I buy CTs, I try to get about a 50/50 mix of green and orange so that if I'm ever using two at once with live bait, I can easily tell which one is from which pole in strong tides or wind etc. I just happened to notice a trend a few weeks ago after experimenting with hooking up all kinds of stuff to CT's on nice days over a period of a few weeks; ALL THE CTs IN MY TACKLE BOX ARE GREEN The reason for that is, all the orange ones (1-2 per trip) were lost to my poor management of large fish hookups. The green ones rest happily in the box because I never lost any to big hookups.

That having been said, I traditionally only use CTs when the weather is too poor for my topwaters and bottom fishing isn't working out either; the water is dark, all kinds of garbage floating in it, sky is overcast etc. I do this because a) my topwaters are rendered useless and choppy weather actually helps, or at least doesn't hurt, the CT action and b) because when the water is murky, I personally believe, with no scientific evidence of any sort, that the noise from the CT is more the attractant than the color or scent or style of whatever you have on it (although I acknowledge that makes a difference too)

So, fishing with them on cloudy, windy and generally nasty days, I never caught fish on or lost one color more than another. As I've recently used them more on nice days, I have lost 100% of the orange ones and 0% of the green ones. Based on all that useless knowledge and my unsupported theories, I've come to the conclusion that maybe the color is an additional attractant when the water is clear, and brings them in close enough to get interested in what ever is hanging from it.

Anyone else have any biased, unfounded theories on this?

That trip will be some precious memories ! Love a report like this !

This stuff could be another thread in the fishing section...
Over the last few trips I noticed that the yellow/greens were eaiser to see in the rough dark water...

Haven't thought about the color attracting or deterring fish.

Mook! wrote:Good times indeed... Great report, and what a priceless video. I don't think there's much more significant a milestone in a child's life than first fish. I'm sure you and she will cherish that video for years to come.

I'm glad to see that the water was so awesome today; hopefully that will hold up for at least some of tomorrow.

I just have to put my two or three cents in on your comment about the CT colors. In spite of my love of fishing and outdoors in general, I'm a certifiable computer geek. I work designing and maintaining complex software and reporting systems, and have worked in the past as a data analyst (still do a lot of that for troubleshooting and design purposes). This work has scarred me for life in that I analyze the bejeesus out of everything. This combined with my addiction to fishing has led me to analyze every pattern, parameter, trend and relationship between weather, water conditions, location and tackle for the past several years now.

Normally, when I buy CTs, I try to get about a 50/50 mix of green and orange so that if I'm ever using two at once with live bait, I can easily tell which one is from which pole in strong tides or wind etc. I just happened to notice a trend a few weeks ago after experimenting with hooking up all kinds of stuff to CT's on nice days over a period of a few weeks; ALL THE CTs IN MY TACKLE BOX ARE GREEN The reason for that is, all the orange ones (1-2 per trip) were lost to my poor management of large fish hookups. The green ones rest happily in the box because I never lost any to big hookups.

That having been said, I traditionally only use CTs when the weather is too poor for my topwaters and bottom fishing isn't working out either; the water is dark, all kinds of garbage floating in it, sky is overcast etc. I do this because a) my topwaters are rendered useless and choppy weather actually helps, or at least doesn't hurt, the CT action and b) because when the water is murky, I personally believe, with no scientific evidence of any sort, that the noise from the CT is more the attractant than the color or scent or style of whatever you have on it (although I acknowledge that makes a difference too)

So, fishing with them on cloudy, windy and generally nasty days, I never caught fish on or lost one color more than another. As I've recently used them more on nice days, I have lost 100% of the orange ones and 0% of the green ones. Based on all that useless knowledge and my unsupported theories, I've come to the conclusion that maybe the color is an additional attractant when the water is clear, and brings them in close enough to get interested in what ever is hanging from it.

Anyone else have any biased, unfounded theories on this?

Big Ditto

Good Report

Great day!!!

Great Day on the water. Glad to see you got the kids in to fishing goodjob

Outstanding trip for the little ones!

Great video! WTG Miss E!