etaggart
11-12-2011, 07:41 AM
Up in BBL for a long 4 day weekend. The wife wanted to get in some early season snowboarding so she dropped me off near the Observatory around 8 and went to shred the white stuff.
Lake conditions weren't horrible (yet) - 40 degrees air temp, light wind, choppy water, but not too bad, gray-threatening skies. I kick around for a while stripping a fly for trout and dragging a crappie/trout jig about 10' under a bobber. No action the entire time on the bobber, but once I started working close-by the Observatory structure I started getting a few taps. Nothing major, felt like crappie. Finally hook into something stronger, but just giving me a slow, steady, hard drag - thought I might have a small bass. Didn't want to lose my possibly-only fish of the day, so finessed it close by and finally saw a big silver flash - woohoo - trout! Got in in my net and snapped a pic - maybe 15", but a nice fish. Kept working the same area, but no more action, so I decided to move east trying to work various depths - closer to shore and farther out in the lake.
About 10:15, the wind came up quickly and started to howl - blowing me north-northeast hard into the shore. It's still not too cold, but getting colder, and I'm still feeling warm enough so I figure I'll let the wind blow me east to Juniper or maybe even Stansfield and we'll see how it goes.
After about 45 minutes the wind's still hard and my legs are getting a little tired kicking away from shore. A bad fly cast and more crazy wind and I end up with with a big mess on my fly rod. After getting blown quickly into shore trying to get it straightened out, I get onto land, fix the mess, and decided to pack it in since it was getting a little crazy.
Back at the house, about 1pm the sun comes out and the wife suggests I go back out (now you know why I love her!). I look outside and pass since all around are dark gray clouds. Bad choice - it was windy, but they held off until sunset. I probably could have worked it for some more fish. Oh well.
Woke Saturday morning at 6am to heavy snow falling, so I go back under the sheets.
JMyTuna emailed may have gone out Saturday morning to tube or shore fish. We'll see if he's tougher than I am :Embarrassed:.
Cheers,
Eric
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Lake conditions weren't horrible (yet) - 40 degrees air temp, light wind, choppy water, but not too bad, gray-threatening skies. I kick around for a while stripping a fly for trout and dragging a crappie/trout jig about 10' under a bobber. No action the entire time on the bobber, but once I started working close-by the Observatory structure I started getting a few taps. Nothing major, felt like crappie. Finally hook into something stronger, but just giving me a slow, steady, hard drag - thought I might have a small bass. Didn't want to lose my possibly-only fish of the day, so finessed it close by and finally saw a big silver flash - woohoo - trout! Got in in my net and snapped a pic - maybe 15", but a nice fish. Kept working the same area, but no more action, so I decided to move east trying to work various depths - closer to shore and farther out in the lake.
About 10:15, the wind came up quickly and started to howl - blowing me north-northeast hard into the shore. It's still not too cold, but getting colder, and I'm still feeling warm enough so I figure I'll let the wind blow me east to Juniper or maybe even Stansfield and we'll see how it goes.
After about 45 minutes the wind's still hard and my legs are getting a little tired kicking away from shore. A bad fly cast and more crazy wind and I end up with with a big mess on my fly rod. After getting blown quickly into shore trying to get it straightened out, I get onto land, fix the mess, and decided to pack it in since it was getting a little crazy.
Back at the house, about 1pm the sun comes out and the wife suggests I go back out (now you know why I love her!). I look outside and pass since all around are dark gray clouds. Bad choice - it was windy, but they held off until sunset. I probably could have worked it for some more fish. Oh well.
Woke Saturday morning at 6am to heavy snow falling, so I go back under the sheets.
JMyTuna emailed may have gone out Saturday morning to tube or shore fish. We'll see if he's tougher than I am :Embarrassed:.
Cheers,
Eric
33929