Hawk
05-15-2011, 08:42 PM
Started out before sunrise Friday. Began the day by North Fork marina hitting the submerged trees and structure. We threw everything. Drop shot, jigs, spinners, deep cranks. Flukes. Nada.
Then around 10am got a hit on a albino fluke with a spinner jig head by camp 9.
http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr143/Hawkham/IMG_4515.jpg
Not what I was going for but I'll take it!
The wind started picking up around 2 pm and my bro started peppering the shore by Boulder Gulch with his 1/4 silver rattle trap and we finally got a LMB.
http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr143/Hawkham/IMG_4516.jpg
We were working our way back towards French Gulch when he hit another with the same pattern
http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr143/Hawkham/IMG_4517.jpg
Of course I tied mine on after his 3rd LMB while we were under the bridge at French Gulch and got a nice size crappie.
http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr143/Hawkham/IMG_4527-1.jpg
Right after he got one as well, so we kept them both since our cousins were nailing trout and crappie trolling by Rocky Point.
That was pretty much it. 10 hours on the water and 2 crappie, 3 LMB and 1 cat.
We hit the lake sat by 8am and by Noon the wind was ripping. Skunked. We didn't even think of fishing Sun because the weather was supposed to be so bad, but when I got to the marina at noon to get the boat, the lake was glass and NO ONE was on it... Oh well.
It was also 20 degrees colder then when we got there Thurs and there was snow on the mountains from the overnight rain. Really pretty, but typical Isabella in spring in regards to fishing.
Great weekend though!
http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr143/Hawkham/1000000486.jpg
Then around 10am got a hit on a albino fluke with a spinner jig head by camp 9.
http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr143/Hawkham/IMG_4515.jpg
Not what I was going for but I'll take it!
The wind started picking up around 2 pm and my bro started peppering the shore by Boulder Gulch with his 1/4 silver rattle trap and we finally got a LMB.
http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr143/Hawkham/IMG_4516.jpg
We were working our way back towards French Gulch when he hit another with the same pattern
http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr143/Hawkham/IMG_4517.jpg
Of course I tied mine on after his 3rd LMB while we were under the bridge at French Gulch and got a nice size crappie.
http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr143/Hawkham/IMG_4527-1.jpg
Right after he got one as well, so we kept them both since our cousins were nailing trout and crappie trolling by Rocky Point.
That was pretty much it. 10 hours on the water and 2 crappie, 3 LMB and 1 cat.
We hit the lake sat by 8am and by Noon the wind was ripping. Skunked. We didn't even think of fishing Sun because the weather was supposed to be so bad, but when I got to the marina at noon to get the boat, the lake was glass and NO ONE was on it... Oh well.
It was also 20 degrees colder then when we got there Thurs and there was snow on the mountains from the overnight rain. Really pretty, but typical Isabella in spring in regards to fishing.
Great weekend though!
http://i478.photobucket.com/albums/rr143/Hawkham/1000000486.jpg