08-22-2008, 04:45 AM
I've been out there three nights in the past week actually. Been getting a few eating size each time lately exclusively on leopard frogs that you can catch on the walk to your spot. Monday night we pulled in about 20lbs of cats from 8-11pm for the motherload of the summer for us so far. First my bro loses a chunker trying to pull it out of the water up the 2 ft bank. He didnt make that mistake again though. The 4 we wrestled up from the bank were caught smallest to largest, it was pretty exciting.
The 2 blues i'm holding up were caught on a nice retro 1970's wonderrod and my lightest setup r&r, both w/8lb line. So they both gave me great fights. The biggest one, ~7lbs i'm estinmating, is the biggest fish i've ever caught period, but i didnt even properly weigh or measure him, but the pictures and memory of that catch is all i need.
I've been fishing at that lake and the wapsi my whole life, and though i mostly go for cats, northerns and dogfish have really taken over that lake it seems like this summer. though i suppose the flood must have alterred the population of some fish to some extent.
What were you catching those northerns on? I usually just rock a 2" spoon and hook a leopard frog on if i can find one.
GL next time your out and dont throw back the dogfish.
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The 2 blues i'm holding up were caught on a nice retro 1970's wonderrod and my lightest setup r&r, both w/8lb line. So they both gave me great fights. The biggest one, ~7lbs i'm estinmating, is the biggest fish i've ever caught period, but i didnt even properly weigh or measure him, but the pictures and memory of that catch is all i need.
I've been fishing at that lake and the wapsi my whole life, and though i mostly go for cats, northerns and dogfish have really taken over that lake it seems like this summer. though i suppose the flood must have alterred the population of some fish to some extent.
What were you catching those northerns on? I usually just rock a 2" spoon and hook a leopard frog on if i can find one.
GL next time your out and dont throw back the dogfish.
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