03-13-2017, 12:36 PM
I joined the BL armada Saturday morning out on the rock pile. Broke a little skim ice on the way out but loved the big blue in glass. Narry a ripple for a couple hours so I didn't need an anchor or spot lock to stay on the fish. I chose to jig even though the troller was knocking them dead. Made one mistake on my setup and had put 50' of mono on for ice season so it didn't freeze up on me. Well that was way too stretchy and I missed too many hits throughout the morning, but did manage to stick four fish on the day. My first was the best of the day at 24" and fat. Tried trolling later and picked up one but it didn't pull hard enough to pop the release on the rigger even though it was 21".. The breeze started and I knew my day was about to be cut short. Didn't take long till mild caps were forming so rather than fight it, I headed to the barn and was loaded and out of there around noon. Fun day, love that sudden stop when jigging followed by the head shake. I did have one really nice fighting fish on for ten seconds that I guess I didn't get the hook set well enough so he decided to let go and leave me hanging. Probably the best fish of the day, but don't they always get away. Anyway looked like others were doing better than I was, but I still had a great time and it was much better than a catfish skunking if I would have stayed home. Later J
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