BBL 07-01-2012 - Still windy, but we found the fish

[etaggart]

Father-in-Law Jim's up for the week with his boat, so I changed-it-up, re-rigged the poles for trout with bobbers and tolling and hit the water - including cousin David Y!

The winds are still really stiff up in Big Bear - no rest, not even early morning hours, so we slept in and hit it about 10am launching at the east ramp. Speed up to about Juniper Point and the engine dies - not getting any gas through the fuel lines. Take off the lines and find they're filled with crap - not sure if it's from old gas that created carnish in the lines or if there was old rubber inner-lining but it was bad. Used a coat hanger to clean it out but couldn't get it all. Cut the line to get as much clean length as we could - by that time we drifted back near the ramp, but stuck in a huge weed bed. Got out of that mess, stopped at the dock and I ran to Napa for new fuel line. Back in action by 1:30 - SHEESH!!!

Speed straight to Windy Point and anchor-up. Get 5 lines in the water fast. Jim gets hit right away on powerbait under a bobber about 10' max - nice fish ~ 2lbs at best. David farms 1 on same setup. I've got one line at the bottom floating up w/ BB and another under a bobber w/ a night crawler. Jim gets a second and David farms a second. Jim farms a third after a bit and I'm sittin there holding my rod like a chump.

After some slow action I finally get on off the bottom. The wind was moving the back of the boat - where I was and I had decided to tighten-up my line on the bottom a bit so when the back-end swang around, the PB on the bottom would move a bit - that seemed to be the trick, because I got two more the same way!! All were about 16" and 2 lbs

Oh, and I picked up a crappie on PB under a bobber at one point - crazy crappie!!!

Trolled on the way back and I picked up a smallish stocker on lead core at 4 colors w/ dodger and a kastmaster.

Nice day - wish David would have landed some!!!

Gonna hit it again today (Monday) hopefully there won't be as many boats in the water, but 4th of July is coming up and it gets crazy.

Cheers,

Eric















Just noticed it doesn't show well in the photos, but two of those were beautiful bright red on the rainbow stripe. All these were big fighters and did NOT like being caught. All were safely released so you can catch them next time.