09-25-2005, 03:36 AM
[cool]Mike and I went out this morning. Weather sucked. It was way too windy to launch when we got to the channel at 6:45 or so, so we walked around the other side of the channel and mike got his bait rig in the water first. Less than 5 minutes later, he had the first fish on while I was still rigging up my bait rig. He strong fish didn't learn very well that it was supposed to cooperate, so into the snag bushes she went, and mike didn't get here out for like 15 minutes. I was over pumping up my tube to try to get out there and help unsnag her. Mike got here out, and it was a 4.5 pound female channel cat. I was thinking "hot diggity dog, today is going to rock, even though it's too windy for tubing." Boy was I wrong. That fish all snagged up and thrashing around must have scared all of her friends off, because that was the only fish we got all day.
Mike and I both had a few hits on jigs, but no cigars (probably little whities). At about 10:30 or so, it finally got calm enough to launch our tubes (but it still wasn't calm) so we launched in the channel and fished around in there and out towards the rock pile, but neither of us got any fish, and at 11:30 or so we both had to get off the pond to go do other things.
Catching sucked, and so did the conditions, but it beat sitting on our butts at home.
Hope I can get back out there again soon (on a good weather day). Water temp in the channel was 67 on down to 63 as we left the channel towards the rock pile.
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Mike and I both had a few hits on jigs, but no cigars (probably little whities). At about 10:30 or so, it finally got calm enough to launch our tubes (but it still wasn't calm) so we launched in the channel and fished around in there and out towards the rock pile, but neither of us got any fish, and at 11:30 or so we both had to get off the pond to go do other things.
Catching sucked, and so did the conditions, but it beat sitting on our butts at home.
Hope I can get back out there again soon (on a good weather day). Water temp in the channel was 67 on down to 63 as we left the channel towards the rock pile.
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