01-14-2003, 05:27 PM
Took my 3 year old daughter out for the first time fishing. We fished Echo and had a blast. Started at 3:00 and fished until 5:30. Fished in 25',35',45', and 60'. Caught fish in all places. Small to medium perch. It was most productive in the deeper water but all fish brought up had their swim bladders in their mouth by the time they came up. Saw nice groups of Trout swimming mid water in the 15' to 25' range. Only hooked into two and both were lost. Felt like nice fish but both were on a "Scooby Doo" fishing pole with my 3 year old fighting them as you can imagine the line eventually broke after the fish banging around the hole a number of times. All in all caught about 30 fish and the pole was always bouncing once it hit bottom in the deeper water. I hope to go back out and try for the trout. The two we hooked were on perch eyes and seemed like nice fish.
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