12-24-2006, 01:01 AM
My cousin and I went to Strawberry today to see if the ice was thick enough to walk on yet. It was.
Catching was good early in the morning and then slowed down around 10:30 or so. So we packed everything into the sled and decided to head back. While we were packing the sled we each left a pole in the water and we each caught a couple of fish while getting ready to go. All packed up, we decided to fish "just a few more minutes".
The bite turned back on and for about another 1/2 hour we took turns catching fish. We really were just about to leave for the second time when my cousin said: "Dangit, I've snagged the bottom". I ignored him and kept fishing. A few seconds later he said "It's not a snag...its a fish". Still ignoring him he finally yelled "Oh my gosh, I've caught a whale!!" I ignored him since he says that about every fish he catches but when he started yelling for help I decided to go over and see what he was babbling about. I looked down the icehole and saw a big eye looking back up at me. I don't remember exactly what I said, but I think I can't type it here and we spent the next 10 minutes trying to get it on the hard deck. The fish had wrapped itself up in the fishing line and we could never get the head to come to the hole. We finally got the fish thru the hole, and my cousin started babbling incoherently and wandering aimlessly jumping up and down like a freaking idiot. Once he settled down we took some pictures of it. It was a Cutthroat that ended up being just over 27 inches long, 14 inch girth and 8 lbs! He did keep it and is going to have it mounted or have a replica made or whatever.
We ran into MGB coming off the ice and my cousin showed the fish to him. It takes a lot to impress Mike, but even he was impressed! Mike almost talked us into staying and fishing a little longer but I knew I'd really be in trouble if I missed the family photo shoot...again. (Missed it a few weeks ago the first time because I was fishing too long!) Anyway, we bid him good luck and we headed home. We ended up with 45 fish between us with 1 of those being a Rainbow.
Randy
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Catching was good early in the morning and then slowed down around 10:30 or so. So we packed everything into the sled and decided to head back. While we were packing the sled we each left a pole in the water and we each caught a couple of fish while getting ready to go. All packed up, we decided to fish "just a few more minutes".
The bite turned back on and for about another 1/2 hour we took turns catching fish. We really were just about to leave for the second time when my cousin said: "Dangit, I've snagged the bottom". I ignored him and kept fishing. A few seconds later he said "It's not a snag...its a fish". Still ignoring him he finally yelled "Oh my gosh, I've caught a whale!!" I ignored him since he says that about every fish he catches but when he started yelling for help I decided to go over and see what he was babbling about. I looked down the icehole and saw a big eye looking back up at me. I don't remember exactly what I said, but I think I can't type it here and we spent the next 10 minutes trying to get it on the hard deck. The fish had wrapped itself up in the fishing line and we could never get the head to come to the hole. We finally got the fish thru the hole, and my cousin started babbling incoherently and wandering aimlessly jumping up and down like a freaking idiot. Once he settled down we took some pictures of it. It was a Cutthroat that ended up being just over 27 inches long, 14 inch girth and 8 lbs! He did keep it and is going to have it mounted or have a replica made or whatever.
We ran into MGB coming off the ice and my cousin showed the fish to him. It takes a lot to impress Mike, but even he was impressed! Mike almost talked us into staying and fishing a little longer but I knew I'd really be in trouble if I missed the family photo shoot...again. (Missed it a few weeks ago the first time because I was fishing too long!) Anyway, we bid him good luck and we headed home. We ended up with 45 fish between us with 1 of those being a Rainbow.
Randy
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I used to N.ot have E.nough T.ime O.ff to go fishing. Then I retired. Now I have less time than I had before. Sheesh.
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