Keaton 3-22
Posted: March 22nd, 2008, 9:49 pm
Everybody that missed the fish fry you missed great time and some darn good eating.
A little dark this morning so we got a late start. We ran up to Spring Warrior and caught several (10+) short trout in fairly short order on top water (Chart. Top Dog) and a Chart. Catch 5. We had several blow up including two fish that knocked the plug a couple feet in the air but nothing in the box. Decided to run a little futher north and scope out some areas we caught soem fish earlier. No luck anywhere. Finally out of frustration ran to Rock Island and found a heck of rock as I backed off the throttle but the skeg and foot hung on so we fished on. No grass + no bait = no fish.
The sun finally came out which was a big relief as my toes were nearly frozen, flip flops were not the shoe of choice fpr most of the day. Finally got feed up with all that ice and no slime, so we ran back to where we started. We ran to an area on the upside of the drift and dropped the little motor and started getting swallow. We were throwing the same lures almost all day and they finally came in sort of. We finally caught our two keepers (16" and 16 1/2"). On the run back to the marina we were discussing the days tactics and what we could've, should've done and figured that we did the best we could think of with the situations we found.
Back at the weigh in we found out we weren't only ones that had trouble as several boats came back empty.
All in all a good time with some greta fellowship and food.
Congrats Casey and everyone that fished with us today.
A little dark this morning so we got a late start. We ran up to Spring Warrior and caught several (10+) short trout in fairly short order on top water (Chart. Top Dog) and a Chart. Catch 5. We had several blow up including two fish that knocked the plug a couple feet in the air but nothing in the box. Decided to run a little futher north and scope out some areas we caught soem fish earlier. No luck anywhere. Finally out of frustration ran to Rock Island and found a heck of rock as I backed off the throttle but the skeg and foot hung on so we fished on. No grass + no bait = no fish.
The sun finally came out which was a big relief as my toes were nearly frozen, flip flops were not the shoe of choice fpr most of the day. Finally got feed up with all that ice and no slime, so we ran back to where we started. We ran to an area on the upside of the drift and dropped the little motor and started getting swallow. We were throwing the same lures almost all day and they finally came in sort of. We finally caught our two keepers (16" and 16 1/2"). On the run back to the marina we were discussing the days tactics and what we could've, should've done and figured that we did the best we could think of with the situations we found.
Back at the weigh in we found out we weren't only ones that had trouble as several boats came back empty.
All in all a good time with some greta fellowship and food.
Congrats Casey and everyone that fished with us today.
