03-08-2003, 05:37 AM
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 3]I think the thing I remember about this trip was the wind. 50 mph gusts can really rock a boat. We ended up putting two anchor chains together to keep the anchor in place because it kept slipping. We were fairly fortunate that the rollers never got bigger than about 3 ft high but they were capping pretty good.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 3]As WH2 said, the ride down to the rock pile was a very wet one. I had rain gear on but Ira and WH2 took a pretty good drenching from the 36 degree water. There were two other small boats out in about 65 - 70 ft off the rockpile. They weren't there long. The wind finally ended up blowing them off the lake.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 3]Once we got anchored up and got a decent set, I dropped a 1/2 oz jig. A horizontal presentation was not going to happen so I upped the jig weight to 1 oz and used a 5" gitzit salt and pepper tube to keep the jig down. That seemed to do the trick. [/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 3]We immediately started catching fish. Now I don't know about you, but with 36 degree water and the wind gusting up to 45 mph, I wasn't really excited about handling fish so if I hooked a fish that was a guppy, I gave him every opportunity to spit the hook. You can tell pretty much at hook set if the fish is a pee wee or net worthy. Only as a last resort did I reel them up to unhook them. Let me tell you, you should of see the look on WH2 and Ira's faces seeing me let fish go after hook up. "You're kidding right?" they'd seem to say as they looked at me in disbelief. Anyway, I guess I convinced them that it wasn't worth it to mess with the little fish so they start trying to unhook the guppies too.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 3]We ended bringing up plenty of fish even trying to let the little boys go and we did manage to knock down one pretty decent one. I could tell right at hook set that that fish was making the journey to the boat at the end of my line.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 3]Once I had him to the surface we had to net him. Have you ever tried getting an 11 1/2 lb fish in a 24" diameter net. It doesn't work very well but we managed to get the job do.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 3]We ended up leaving the lake about 3:00 pm and had caught a lot of fish. By afternoon the wind wasn't as bad and the ride back to the marina was uneventful. Below is a pic of the 11 1/2 lber we caught. [/size][/font] [center]![[Image: bl_3-6.jpg]](http://home.attbi.com/~bearlakemack/bl_3-6.jpg)
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[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 3]As WH2 said, the ride down to the rock pile was a very wet one. I had rain gear on but Ira and WH2 took a pretty good drenching from the 36 degree water. There were two other small boats out in about 65 - 70 ft off the rockpile. They weren't there long. The wind finally ended up blowing them off the lake.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 3]Once we got anchored up and got a decent set, I dropped a 1/2 oz jig. A horizontal presentation was not going to happen so I upped the jig weight to 1 oz and used a 5" gitzit salt and pepper tube to keep the jig down. That seemed to do the trick. [/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 3]We immediately started catching fish. Now I don't know about you, but with 36 degree water and the wind gusting up to 45 mph, I wasn't really excited about handling fish so if I hooked a fish that was a guppy, I gave him every opportunity to spit the hook. You can tell pretty much at hook set if the fish is a pee wee or net worthy. Only as a last resort did I reel them up to unhook them. Let me tell you, you should of see the look on WH2 and Ira's faces seeing me let fish go after hook up. "You're kidding right?" they'd seem to say as they looked at me in disbelief. Anyway, I guess I convinced them that it wasn't worth it to mess with the little fish so they start trying to unhook the guppies too.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 3]We ended bringing up plenty of fish even trying to let the little boys go and we did manage to knock down one pretty decent one. I could tell right at hook set that that fish was making the journey to the boat at the end of my line.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 3]Once I had him to the surface we had to net him. Have you ever tried getting an 11 1/2 lb fish in a 24" diameter net. It doesn't work very well but we managed to get the job do.[/size][/font]
[font "Comic Sans MS"][size 3]We ended up leaving the lake about 3:00 pm and had caught a lot of fish. By afternoon the wind wasn't as bad and the ride back to the marina was uneventful. Below is a pic of the 11 1/2 lber we caught. [/size][/font] [center]
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