FadedOne
06-11-2010, 03:55 PM
Sorry about the late post. Went up to Convict Lake this year with the girlfirend and Charlie dog and once again it was another beautiful trip. The fishing was amazing with limits on every day, nice weather, and little wind. Most of the snow has melted from the mountains, but still such a sight.
On the fishing front we worked the "North Shore". The "South Shore" has never been that good to us so we hiked back a bit and tried our luck on the North side. Mr Trout didn't seem interested at all with my lures, but he did love the Salmon Peach Powerbait. That was the weapon of choice this weekend. Played with the 2# leader and size 16 treble. It did real well except on 3 or 4 occasions we were hit hard, rod bent over, drag screaming, trying to get Mr Fishy in and SNAP.... limp pole and light line. The leader snapped in half. So it seems the 2# test is great for most occasions, but when you get a good fighter or a fatty it snaps pretty easy.
We managed to see some deer, but couldn't get any good pictures because it was dark. OH and found many piles of Horse Poop :LOL: and 4 bags of fishing trash we hiked out.
Here are some pics of the trip...
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2650.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2448.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2513.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2520.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2538.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2550.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2653.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2554.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2580.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2594.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2600.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2618.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2621.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2624.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2631.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2637.jpg
On the fishing front we worked the "North Shore". The "South Shore" has never been that good to us so we hiked back a bit and tried our luck on the North side. Mr Trout didn't seem interested at all with my lures, but he did love the Salmon Peach Powerbait. That was the weapon of choice this weekend. Played with the 2# leader and size 16 treble. It did real well except on 3 or 4 occasions we were hit hard, rod bent over, drag screaming, trying to get Mr Fishy in and SNAP.... limp pole and light line. The leader snapped in half. So it seems the 2# test is great for most occasions, but when you get a good fighter or a fatty it snaps pretty easy.
We managed to see some deer, but couldn't get any good pictures because it was dark. OH and found many piles of Horse Poop :LOL: and 4 bags of fishing trash we hiked out.
Here are some pics of the trip...
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2650.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2448.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2513.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2520.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2538.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2550.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2653.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2554.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2580.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2594.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2600.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2618.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2621.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2624.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2631.jpg
http://i271.photobucket.com/albums/jj150/Faded1_one/Convict%20Lake%2005_28_10/IMG_2637.jpg