9/11 Big Bear Lake

[Cameron]

Took my family up to Big Bear for a lil fishing after 4 long years of dry lines. OMG it felt good to see a sunrise on the lake again and we really miss living up there and cant wait to get back.
Anyway hit the red house at about 5:45 and started casting out poles just north of the point. I hooked him up on a slip bobber set to about 10ft with some salmon egg peach PB. I rigged mine up with a inflated crawler and some garlic PB on the slip bobber a lil deeper but not much I kept in between 8-12 feet with the lake D/O and temp pretty much the same from top to bottom.
I hooked my lil girl up with a inflated crawler and PB as well but on a standard rig setup with 3 ft leader on the PB.
We had been there about fifteen minutes when the boys bobber went down and he was able to hook up. Took him a minute since he hasnt been fishing in a minute and was a bit excited as was I.
Nothing like putting your kids on some fish. After all the drag squealing he ended up with a nice holdover and a huge smile. My son managed to hook up again about 30 min and this fish was alil bigger as it ran in and turned by the shoreline I caught a glimpse. It looked to be about twice the size but spit the hook when it ran back out.
We stayed until 11:00 a.m. and headed to a friends house waiting for the wind to die down, which never happened.
All in all the lake was fairly crowded and very very low with folks every to 10 yards. As we watched folks that were there when we showed up leaving with empty stringers I was real happy to see my son all happy with the only fish we saw caught that morning.
There was a small child about 2-3 on his first trip that had not seen a fish so I had the boy walk his fish over there. The kid was cool until that fish moved and the kid flipped out. Darn fish was almost a s big as him lol.
All in all a great day fishing trip with my family for my kids birthday trip. Lil upset that the only thing I could put my daughter on was a tiny sculpin on a worm.
Only 1 more year free fishing for the girl and 2 more for the boy. I did manage to catch a sweet early morning beer buzz.
Tight Lines.
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