SteveH
03-02-2009, 10:30 PM
Did my Monday ritual and fished the Vine today.
Launched at 6:00 and was soon fishing. We started along the west shore and found no love.
We then moved back to the creek area in the flats. Again, after about another hour of nothing, we moved. Trolled back toward the middle of the lake with still no love.
I swung the boat in close to the red cliffs while trolling by and marked a ton of fish along the shore. We reeled in out gear and swung back around to where I metered the fish.
We pulled up to shore and cast out lines. It wasn't more then five minutes and we had our 1st fish. We then started getting bit like crazy. We lost at least 5 or 6 in bushes.
By 11 we had 7 fat ones in the basket.
We then left to troll (after hearing how great it was on here).
Again we found no love on the troll. The lake is about 40% covered in trash and run off.
Mid lake by the dam looks like a garbage dump. Branches to 10 feet are floating out amongst all the flotsam and jetsam that now cover vast expanses of water. Where did all this crap come from? It wasn't there last week.
After trolling in trash we returned to the honey hole spot by the red cliffs and my friend was soon hooked up again. We got all 8 fish on power bait and probably lost 8 more in the bushes.
They were all fighters and not a guppy in the group.
It's tough finding the fish but when you do hang on.....
Tight lines.
Launched at 6:00 and was soon fishing. We started along the west shore and found no love.
We then moved back to the creek area in the flats. Again, after about another hour of nothing, we moved. Trolled back toward the middle of the lake with still no love.
I swung the boat in close to the red cliffs while trolling by and marked a ton of fish along the shore. We reeled in out gear and swung back around to where I metered the fish.
We pulled up to shore and cast out lines. It wasn't more then five minutes and we had our 1st fish. We then started getting bit like crazy. We lost at least 5 or 6 in bushes.
By 11 we had 7 fat ones in the basket.
We then left to troll (after hearing how great it was on here).
Again we found no love on the troll. The lake is about 40% covered in trash and run off.
Mid lake by the dam looks like a garbage dump. Branches to 10 feet are floating out amongst all the flotsam and jetsam that now cover vast expanses of water. Where did all this crap come from? It wasn't there last week.
After trolling in trash we returned to the honey hole spot by the red cliffs and my friend was soon hooked up again. We got all 8 fish on power bait and probably lost 8 more in the bushes.
They were all fighters and not a guppy in the group.
It's tough finding the fish but when you do hang on.....
Tight lines.