KaliDawgFan
08-01-2010, 10:31 AM
There's no need to adjust your monitor. I am in fact writing a report. I still do fish, but I haven't been doing so as often lately.
That said, I picked Bullets up and headed over to the Vine for my first catfish outing of the summer. We arrived a little before 5 pm, rented a boat and headed out. The first spot we hit up looked really fishy, and it was but not quite what we were hoping for. There were a lot of bluegill and other assorted small fish, and since the larger models didn't feel like playing we messed around with them for a little while.
This must be my smallest LMB ever!
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc135/kalidawgfan/Irvine%2007-31-10/GEDC0350.jpg
Bullets did manage to pull out a decent bluegill that had a really colorful belly.
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc135/kalidawgfan/Irvine%2007-31-10/GEDC0351.jpg
That got old after about an hour so we headed off looking for greener pastures. We did a complete loop around the whole lake before settling on another fishy-looking spot. There really aren't many details as to what happened next, but the catfish bite opened up. Once they started biting the longest wait between bites was probably 10 minutes. There were a lot of swing-and-misses though. I hooked into something with some serious shoulders, but the hook popped out about 10 seconds into the battle. I still managed a limit, and Bullets managed two before we decided to leave around 10:30 pm.
Here are the rest of the pictures.
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc135/kalidawgfan/Irvine%2007-31-10/GEDC0354.jpg
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc135/kalidawgfan/Irvine%2007-31-10/GEDC0353.jpg
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc135/kalidawgfan/Irvine%2007-31-10/GEDC0363.jpg
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc135/kalidawgfan/Irvine%2007-31-10/GEDC0366.jpg
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc135/kalidawgfan/Irvine%2007-31-10/GEDC0362.jpg
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc135/kalidawgfan/Irvine%2007-31-10/GEDC0356.jpg
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc135/kalidawgfan/Irvine%2007-31-10/GEDC0355.jpg
The end result
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc135/kalidawgfan/Irvine%2007-31-10/GEDC0368.jpg
That said, I picked Bullets up and headed over to the Vine for my first catfish outing of the summer. We arrived a little before 5 pm, rented a boat and headed out. The first spot we hit up looked really fishy, and it was but not quite what we were hoping for. There were a lot of bluegill and other assorted small fish, and since the larger models didn't feel like playing we messed around with them for a little while.
This must be my smallest LMB ever!
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc135/kalidawgfan/Irvine%2007-31-10/GEDC0350.jpg
Bullets did manage to pull out a decent bluegill that had a really colorful belly.
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc135/kalidawgfan/Irvine%2007-31-10/GEDC0351.jpg
That got old after about an hour so we headed off looking for greener pastures. We did a complete loop around the whole lake before settling on another fishy-looking spot. There really aren't many details as to what happened next, but the catfish bite opened up. Once they started biting the longest wait between bites was probably 10 minutes. There were a lot of swing-and-misses though. I hooked into something with some serious shoulders, but the hook popped out about 10 seconds into the battle. I still managed a limit, and Bullets managed two before we decided to leave around 10:30 pm.
Here are the rest of the pictures.
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc135/kalidawgfan/Irvine%2007-31-10/GEDC0354.jpg
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc135/kalidawgfan/Irvine%2007-31-10/GEDC0353.jpg
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc135/kalidawgfan/Irvine%2007-31-10/GEDC0363.jpg
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc135/kalidawgfan/Irvine%2007-31-10/GEDC0366.jpg
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc135/kalidawgfan/Irvine%2007-31-10/GEDC0362.jpg
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc135/kalidawgfan/Irvine%2007-31-10/GEDC0356.jpg
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc135/kalidawgfan/Irvine%2007-31-10/GEDC0355.jpg
The end result
http://i219.photobucket.com/albums/cc135/kalidawgfan/Irvine%2007-31-10/GEDC0368.jpg