Big Willy
02-18-2013, 04:57 PM
I headed over to the Vine at about 7am on friday and rented a boat headed out to the Santiago Flats. My plan was to troll around until I found a good school of fish and then mini jig some up. I left the boat dock and put out a couple trolling rods with flickershad in different colors. go to make the turn around trout island and get my first strike. Great fight strong runs and seemed what was big head shakes. ended up being a 4.5 pound brown trout(first one at irvine). I kept on my track and got to the flats still trolling and land a 4.95 sierra red. No lunker pin awarded. Decide Im going to troll right back over the spots I just came from. Start heading towards trout island from the back of the flats and bam another quality 4+pound red. Im really enjoying myself at this point as its been about an hour and I have three quality fish on my stringer. Anyways, I get back to trolling the front of trout island as I do a loop the rod Im holding goes off and it once again is a Brown trout! This one weighed about 3.75 pounds. I'm really excited to have two reds and two browns. I get back to trolling and not 5 minutes later I fill my stringer with a nice 3+ pound bow. That was 5 trout and it was only 9am. I decided it was time for some breakfast a 2nd limit and a few pictures. Did that and headed out for another run at the lake at about 10:00. Leave the boat dock and head right back over the same spot I caught the first brown at. One of the rods goes off and again it's a BROWN! This one was also about 3.75 pounds. So after this I pull myself together and decide Im going back to the flats to try for some more reds. I never even made it back there as the fish just kept coming. Ended my day about noon with 10 quality fish that consisted of 3 reds over 4 pounds plus 2 more 3+pound reds. 3 Brown trout that were 3.5, 3.75 and 4.5 pounds and 2 Bows that were both over 3 pounds. I had one or two shake off that were a bit smaller and one that was allot bigger that got away. It almost spooled me then spit the hook. I went home and cleaned up kissed the wife and headed back for a night of camping and fishing the next day. Camping was great, woke up ready for a repeat. Went out and had a slow day with my biggest trout weighing about three pounds. And, I caught the dock in the back of the flats while trolling. Who does that? Still had a great time on Saturday but nothing like Friday. Planned on making back for sunday but ended up sleeping in and hanging with the family. I smoked a few of the trout yesterday and they turned out GREAAAAT! Those Browns and reds are tasty!
Tight Lines,
Will
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Tight Lines,
Will
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