Poxy Boggards
02-06-2011, 10:54 PM
After posting up a thread about fishing on Sunday, got a call from Rooster with an invite to hit up the vine on his new boat. Huge thanks for the invite Rooster! It was great to get out to the vine on a nice slow day for a change.
We got in the water by around 6:30 and started trolling first thing. Trolled the usual suspects for a few hours with nothing to show for our efforts. We had not one, not two, but three missed hook ups starting at about 10 AM. To say that the morning was slow would be an understatement, but being the hard core fishermen that we are we stuck it out. Rooster was the first to stick a fish that acutally made it into the basket 3+ pounds and a very nice fight.
I switched up my lure, and got a fish on the sink before I could event get the rod into the holder. Thought it was a dink until it got close to the boat and decided to make a run for the end zone. Got a good look as we got it up to the boat a few times before it eventually broke me off a good 4 1/2 pounder minimum.
Thing slowed down so we made a move towards the damn area, where Rooster came through again, this time with a nice 5+pounder. We made a few circles through that area again, but no more takers, so we headed back to the spot that produced earlier.
This whole time I still had not put a fish on the boat, but I still had faith. Finally got my first fish on the boat a few minutes later a nice 3+ pound fish that put up one hell of a fight. Then my other rod went off, and I landed a really nice 4+ pounder that made several drap peeling runs and launched itself 2 feet out of the water.
We went back and forth catching some very nice quality fish, no fish under 3 pounds today.
We were making our way back through the productive zone when I got hit big time, fish was peeling drag like nobody's buisness and the fight was on. Kicked the boat into Nuetral, and to my amazement we see a huge in my estimate 9 pound fish coming flying by the boat with my lure in it's mouth. The fish was way to gree to try and net it, and it got tangled in the stringer before we could get it out of the water and promptly breaking off without hesitation. A bit of heart break, but we had one hell of a day out there!
Thanks again Rooster for the invite! Great company, great fish, light crowd and beautiful scenery. What more could anyone ask for?
We got in the water by around 6:30 and started trolling first thing. Trolled the usual suspects for a few hours with nothing to show for our efforts. We had not one, not two, but three missed hook ups starting at about 10 AM. To say that the morning was slow would be an understatement, but being the hard core fishermen that we are we stuck it out. Rooster was the first to stick a fish that acutally made it into the basket 3+ pounds and a very nice fight.
I switched up my lure, and got a fish on the sink before I could event get the rod into the holder. Thought it was a dink until it got close to the boat and decided to make a run for the end zone. Got a good look as we got it up to the boat a few times before it eventually broke me off a good 4 1/2 pounder minimum.
Thing slowed down so we made a move towards the damn area, where Rooster came through again, this time with a nice 5+pounder. We made a few circles through that area again, but no more takers, so we headed back to the spot that produced earlier.
This whole time I still had not put a fish on the boat, but I still had faith. Finally got my first fish on the boat a few minutes later a nice 3+ pound fish that put up one hell of a fight. Then my other rod went off, and I landed a really nice 4+ pounder that made several drap peeling runs and launched itself 2 feet out of the water.
We went back and forth catching some very nice quality fish, no fish under 3 pounds today.
We were making our way back through the productive zone when I got hit big time, fish was peeling drag like nobody's buisness and the fight was on. Kicked the boat into Nuetral, and to my amazement we see a huge in my estimate 9 pound fish coming flying by the boat with my lure in it's mouth. The fish was way to gree to try and net it, and it got tangled in the stringer before we could get it out of the water and promptly breaking off without hesitation. A bit of heart break, but we had one hell of a day out there!
Thanks again Rooster for the invite! Great company, great fish, light crowd and beautiful scenery. What more could anyone ask for?