11-04-2006, 12:57 AM
[cool][#0000ff]TubeBabe is out of town so I launched solo at Lindon this morning, at about 7 AM. Got rained on as I got dressed and the clouds looked semiserious, with snow obviously falling on tops of the mountains. Good day for walleye, right? Not so.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Water was kinda clean and 47 degrees in the harbor. Still a good 6 feet of depth all over the harbor and out the channel. All of the fish musta headed out because the harbor was a sonar desert. Only saw a single fish here and there and they were probably carp. At least no hits on all of the plastics and baits I served up.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Finally got outside and started dragging a minnow for walleye, along with all the plastics I continued to throw. Caught a few small white bass and a misplaced perch, but no walleye. Finally the line started running out on my minnow rig and I hoped for a walleye. Nope, just a big ol' 26" channel cat that thought it was still July. Gotta admit the tug of war got me goin'.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Gradually worked over to the bubbleup and tossed a bunch of different stuff there. Nothing but white bass, but some nice ones. I kept 4 over 12"...with the largest almost 15". They liked my chartreuse and purple 3" walleye plastic. Some of them liked the 4" chartreuse too.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]After an hour at the bubbleup I minnowed and plasticed back to the harbor. The water had warmed to 51 in the calm sunny conditions, but there were still no fish inside. I tried bottom bounching, casting and retrieving and vertical jigging next to the docks. Zero, goose-egg, nada, zilch. Shoulda gone home two hours earlier.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]It was a beautiful day, and I was the only one on the lake. No shore tanglers and no boats all day long. I did see a few flights of ducks go over but they wouldn't hit my jigs either.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Water was kinda clean and 47 degrees in the harbor. Still a good 6 feet of depth all over the harbor and out the channel. All of the fish musta headed out because the harbor was a sonar desert. Only saw a single fish here and there and they were probably carp. At least no hits on all of the plastics and baits I served up.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Finally got outside and started dragging a minnow for walleye, along with all the plastics I continued to throw. Caught a few small white bass and a misplaced perch, but no walleye. Finally the line started running out on my minnow rig and I hoped for a walleye. Nope, just a big ol' 26" channel cat that thought it was still July. Gotta admit the tug of war got me goin'.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Gradually worked over to the bubbleup and tossed a bunch of different stuff there. Nothing but white bass, but some nice ones. I kept 4 over 12"...with the largest almost 15". They liked my chartreuse and purple 3" walleye plastic. Some of them liked the 4" chartreuse too.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]After an hour at the bubbleup I minnowed and plasticed back to the harbor. The water had warmed to 51 in the calm sunny conditions, but there were still no fish inside. I tried bottom bounching, casting and retrieving and vertical jigging next to the docks. Zero, goose-egg, nada, zilch. Shoulda gone home two hours earlier.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]It was a beautiful day, and I was the only one on the lake. No shore tanglers and no boats all day long. I did see a few flights of ducks go over but they wouldn't hit my jigs either.[/#0000ff]
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