12-28-2009, 05:42 AM
I was fully expecting to fish the main body of Pali
es today; I was shocked to not see a lick of ice on it. It usually freezes by now with the conditions we have had lately. That left Big Elk as the only option; the isolated part, not the bay. Well it was OK we iced 4 cutts, 3 chubs (first ever for me at Palies), and 1 sucker. We fished in 10-50 feet of water from the shore to the depths. I marked a lot of fish in 50 feet of water at all levels, but most were very closed mouthed. Fished till 7:00pm and then walked out with a bright moon. I actually scared myself as the night sky was brilliant; when I got to my vehicle I thought I saw what I was the andromeda galaxy; I had never seen it so large and vivid, well I got my binos out and looked at it and it was perfectly spherical like an eclipsed moon. I looked to my right and saw a great bright moon. I started to panic thinking abduction or the end of days; it took me about two minutess to realize that it was the spherical plane warning device hanging from the powerlines. What a relief; plus yeah I caught some chubs!
OvidCreek
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es today; I was shocked to not see a lick of ice on it. It usually freezes by now with the conditions we have had lately. That left Big Elk as the only option; the isolated part, not the bay. Well it was OK we iced 4 cutts, 3 chubs (first ever for me at Palies), and 1 sucker. We fished in 10-50 feet of water from the shore to the depths. I marked a lot of fish in 50 feet of water at all levels, but most were very closed mouthed. Fished till 7:00pm and then walked out with a bright moon. I actually scared myself as the night sky was brilliant; when I got to my vehicle I thought I saw what I was the andromeda galaxy; I had never seen it so large and vivid, well I got my binos out and looked at it and it was perfectly spherical like an eclipsed moon. I looked to my right and saw a great bright moon. I started to panic thinking abduction or the end of days; it took me about two minutess to realize that it was the spherical plane warning device hanging from the powerlines. What a relief; plus yeah I caught some chubs!OvidCreek
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