06-01-2009, 10:01 PM
Took the family camping on Lake mead on Thursday and came home Saturday afternoon. The Callville boat ramp has been revamped some and launching was a breeze. Headed out to middle point island to set up camp and started fishing around dusk. I was just casting off the back of the boat and the stripers were hitting the bait before it could get to the bottom. The only bummer was they were all kinda small. In the 1 to 11/2 pound range. I kept about 15 mainly because they had swallowed the bait and would not have lived even if I released them. We even stopped by Sandy beach and was catching them right off the boat in the middle of the day. Same problem was they were small. But they still make great fish tacos. So on Friday night we stayed in a nice little cove not too far from the callville campgrounds and I caught a pretty good sized turtle on squid. Actually I caught two of them but took a picture of the larger one. I have caught turtles in the past but usually they were in the overton area. These can be pretty mean little creatures but this one stayed nice and still while I removed the hook very carefully. Usually we just cut the line and turn them loose but this one was not hissing or trying to bite. The turtle in the photo is about 16 inches in diameter. I put my size 12 foot in the picture for some scale.
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