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bullets_full
01-11-2009, 03:42 PM
Decided to dust off the old float tube today and hit Irvine around 9 a.m. About mid lake I feel something aint quite right and notice my rear bladder had a slow leak so decided to haul A back to the shore and bait & wait.

Tried trout island for a bit with no love so moved over to woody's cove which only had a few anglers.

About an hour in I see my bobber move and hurry to set the hook. When I pick my pole up, I notice my line is going straight up into the air. An ospry had grabbed the fish and took off. I fought the bird until he let go of the fish and gave it to the three guys fishing to my right. Weird!

The next bite was a mud duck that had taken my inflated N/C so I reeled him in and safely released him back to the lake. Funny even still, my next bite was also a mud duck so after reeling him in and releasing, I started throwing rocks at them to get them to go somewhere else.

All in all, i ended up with 3 trout which I gave away. All 3 caught on inflated N/C. And 2 mud ducks.

The bite in woody's cove didn't start until 2:00.

Sorry forgot the camera today so no pics. Of all the days!

_Bullets

lizzay
01-11-2009, 03:48 PM
Congrats on the 3 trouts, how was the fighting for the mud ducks? New stock???

BIGRED KILLA
01-11-2009, 04:38 PM
Thanks for the report thats a burn about the tube.





Bigred

Mondo21
01-11-2009, 05:27 PM
That was weird,but good reading. Thanks for the report. Congrats on three 3 trout. Cindy:Big Grin:

Granny Fish
01-11-2009, 06:16 PM
3 Trout, 2 mud ducks (koots?), 1 osprey (farmed). Sounds like a slow but interesting day. :LOL:

Hitts0n
01-11-2009, 07:23 PM
Haha bait n rape!:ROFL:

Granny Fish
01-11-2009, 07:43 PM
Bait and rape... Classic!:ROFL::ROFL::ROFL:

one_leg
01-11-2009, 07:47 PM
Coots are a hoot on light line.

Thanks for the report.

Marley
01-11-2009, 08:45 PM
I've never caught an osprey. That's cool! I have caught numerous coots, but one at SARL sticks in my brain. It dived on a half-crawler hanging under a bobber. I tried to get it away, but I was too late. Swallowed the hook. Of course it went nuts as I reeled it in and I noticed blood on its beak. I cut the line and watched it die in the water in front of me. I felt really, really bad.

bruce watson
01-11-2009, 09:12 PM
Bullets..I can see that you didn't pay any attention to the postings of my grand daughters this summer. I can't believe that a man your age is still playing around with mud hens. Listen to my girls and they'll have you onto some trophy catches in no time.

http://fishingnetwork.net/forum4/showthread.php?t=21872

BingJr
01-11-2009, 10:42 PM
On the 2nd Sunday of 2009 my true love gave to me..........

3 Rainbow Trouts
2 Mud Ducks
and an Osprey in the sky!

boxl0bster
01-12-2009, 01:08 AM
thats hilarious greg! good thing you still hooked into some trout. thanks for the report.

troutdog
01-12-2009, 01:22 AM
See what happens when I let you go fishing by yourself :ROFL: Great read.

Hey Greg I was thinking you could just drop your folks off at the airport 10 hours early so you don't miss out on any of the festivities next Sat!


TD

Wingnut
01-12-2009, 10:57 AM
Now that's a fish story!!! :Wink:
See you guys Saturday. :Cool: :Big Grin:

MAVERICK27
01-12-2009, 12:03 PM
Nice report very fun read. That is as bad as me catching one trolling? I was reeling a fish in and it came and took it ....I saw my Rapala spit out...away went the fish and bird haha

FISHSTIX
01-12-2009, 12:43 PM
Thats the funniest read i've had in the longest, attack of the birds!:LOL:
good job punking the skunk tho!