01-04-2009, 06:54 PM
We did well up there Saturday as well. We fished about 300 yards south of the boat ramp. We spread our holes out between 10 and 30 feet from the shore and about 5 to 10 feet of water. We started catching them right when we got there around 7:30. We would catch 2 or three and then wait for 30 minutes or so and catch 2 or three more. By 12 we had three limits, and threw several back and had just as many break our lines or release themselves at the hole. Garden tackle was the ticket and we caught just as many on a plain old hook with worm as we did with fancy jigs. Just more evidence that alot of tackle is meant to lure money out of my pocket rather than put fish on my hook. Although the big fish of the day was caught on an airplane jig with pink maggots. Had a couple of other big fish that got off and they bit plain hooks with worm. We did see some people fishing further from the shore that were catching some fish but they didn't seem to be catching near as many as us. The highlight of the day was a tip up I've been tinkering with that worked great. It hooks the fish as soon as they take a nipple and we caught six fish between the two that I had made up. I had several regular tip ups and by the time you noticed a fish was biting they had already spit the hook. If you head up there keep in mind that the fish were swallowing the hooks really deep, other wise I probably wouldn't have kept so many. Chrome Junky to reduce my picture size I just open it up in Paint shop and then go under image, stretch and skew, and then reduce the numbers until it looks about right, then resave it. [cool]
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