05-06-2003, 03:29 PM
!@#$%! That just confirms my suspicious feeling that I had while float tubing at Deer Creek three years ago before the lake drawn down.
I was by the roadside dike just north of the island fishing for smallies on one nice early summer afternoon. I was having a blast fishing in the tube no more than three feet from the shoreline dikes when I saw five or six huge shadowry fish down about 10 feet deep about five feet away. I was spooked to see such huge shadow that, all of a sudden I thought I was in California in the ocean... (Jaws overture playing...) that I moved right next to the dikes for safety.
I was eyeing them with my polarized sunglasses that I can make out the ugly mouth and its scales. I tried to catch one of them by snagging with my panther martin spinner.
I snagged one alright, it gave me quite a pull, and lost it. I reeled in my spinner, on it was a huge scale I had snagged off it. It was like a half- dollar sized scale.
Deer Creek does have some huge monsters that looked to be at least 6 to 8 feet long from the looks of the shadows. I was amazed at its size! I've never caught one, not that big anyways.
I forgot to add, the smallies bite stopped when those monsters showed up. Thought that was very interesting to note this. After those monsters disappeared, the smallies reappeared for more of the continued bite. I'll bet smallies got spooked and ran for cover.
Does anybody know of Carp eating smallies? They look so big they probably do...
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I was by the roadside dike just north of the island fishing for smallies on one nice early summer afternoon. I was having a blast fishing in the tube no more than three feet from the shoreline dikes when I saw five or six huge shadowry fish down about 10 feet deep about five feet away. I was spooked to see such huge shadow that, all of a sudden I thought I was in California in the ocean... (Jaws overture playing...) that I moved right next to the dikes for safety.
I was eyeing them with my polarized sunglasses that I can make out the ugly mouth and its scales. I tried to catch one of them by snagging with my panther martin spinner.
I snagged one alright, it gave me quite a pull, and lost it. I reeled in my spinner, on it was a huge scale I had snagged off it. It was like a half- dollar sized scale.
Deer Creek does have some huge monsters that looked to be at least 6 to 8 feet long from the looks of the shadows. I was amazed at its size! I've never caught one, not that big anyways.
I forgot to add, the smallies bite stopped when those monsters showed up. Thought that was very interesting to note this. After those monsters disappeared, the smallies reappeared for more of the continued bite. I'll bet smallies got spooked and ran for cover.
Does anybody know of Carp eating smallies? They look so big they probably do...
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