09-04-2019, 09:28 PM
[#0000ff]Met up with FatBiker at the north marina about 6:30. Took my cast net to try to get some carp minnows. No good. But there were a lot of spottail shiners popping midges on top and a couple of throws of the cast net got a few for both FB and myself.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Air temp just over 60 at launch. Water temp 76. Levels are staying up pretty good and clarity was pretty good too. No boils but did see terns making periodic dive bombs on careless surface critters.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Started in my usual way...dragging a LHBE minnow on one rod and pitching tandem tube jigs on the other. Hadn't even gotten out of the channel into the main lake when I my blue plastic tube jig got whacked...by the first kitty of the day. Got another just like it a short distance out of the harbor...on plastics again.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Couldn't believe I had dragged an appetizing minnow around for a half hour without so much as a sniff. So I brought in the unmolested minnow and put it on one of my new "perple purch" fligs. Wow? Hardly got the rod parked in the holder before it went bendo...with another kitty. And so it was for the rest of the morning. Constant munches on the purple flig...either with chub minnow, spottail shiner or perch meat from Echo. Also fished that stuff on a couple of other colors of fligs but they showed a definite preference for the purple.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As soon as I detected that purple was the flavor du jour, I handed off a couple to FatBiker and he joined in the kitty fest. Not sure how many he caught all together but he did get his stick bent and string stretched a bit. Said he got one about 24". That's a nice kitty for Willard.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Wonder of wonders. I even got a couple of bonus perch. One was about 10 inches the other right at 12 inches. I catch a few perch every fall but they usually don't come in and get too active until the water is colder. Must be the extra depth this year.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Couldn't have asked for a nicer day. Glassy calm right up until we both boogied just before noon. We had overfunned, run out of bait and had things to do in the afternoon. As I moved toward the ramp I was gobsmacked to see that some brilliant individual had left their trailer in the water with the truck still on the ramp. Guess I didn't get the memo that they owned it for the day.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I'm guessing I caught somewhere around 20 cats, and the two perch. Nothing else. I kept only 5 cats for a fish fry...for my household and some for my next door neighbor. He's even older than I am and doesn't fish. But he sure does like "kitty krispies". And his wife makes good zucchini bread.
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[#0000ff]Air temp just over 60 at launch. Water temp 76. Levels are staying up pretty good and clarity was pretty good too. No boils but did see terns making periodic dive bombs on careless surface critters.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Started in my usual way...dragging a LHBE minnow on one rod and pitching tandem tube jigs on the other. Hadn't even gotten out of the channel into the main lake when I my blue plastic tube jig got whacked...by the first kitty of the day. Got another just like it a short distance out of the harbor...on plastics again.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Couldn't believe I had dragged an appetizing minnow around for a half hour without so much as a sniff. So I brought in the unmolested minnow and put it on one of my new "perple purch" fligs. Wow? Hardly got the rod parked in the holder before it went bendo...with another kitty. And so it was for the rest of the morning. Constant munches on the purple flig...either with chub minnow, spottail shiner or perch meat from Echo. Also fished that stuff on a couple of other colors of fligs but they showed a definite preference for the purple.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]As soon as I detected that purple was the flavor du jour, I handed off a couple to FatBiker and he joined in the kitty fest. Not sure how many he caught all together but he did get his stick bent and string stretched a bit. Said he got one about 24". That's a nice kitty for Willard.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Wonder of wonders. I even got a couple of bonus perch. One was about 10 inches the other right at 12 inches. I catch a few perch every fall but they usually don't come in and get too active until the water is colder. Must be the extra depth this year.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Couldn't have asked for a nicer day. Glassy calm right up until we both boogied just before noon. We had overfunned, run out of bait and had things to do in the afternoon. As I moved toward the ramp I was gobsmacked to see that some brilliant individual had left their trailer in the water with the truck still on the ramp. Guess I didn't get the memo that they owned it for the day.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I'm guessing I caught somewhere around 20 cats, and the two perch. Nothing else. I kept only 5 cats for a fish fry...for my household and some for my next door neighbor. He's even older than I am and doesn't fish. But he sure does like "kitty krispies". And his wife makes good zucchini bread.
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