11-01-2003, 06:09 AM
[cool]A few weeks back when I banged on a bunch of helpless bluegill, Tommy was lurking around. I kept the bluegills in a live floating basket and every 5 to 10 minutes he would come up and try to crash the basket. He jumped over it once and I didn't have the camera ready. He was close to 35inces around and was fatter than a 2 liter soda bottle.
My son, TubeNtoo watched in awe and I think his breathing stopped for awhile while Tommy cannonballed back into the water. It was quite a site and gave me an idea. I went and bought some of those little bluegill looking lures in a few colors as well as some shad ones. They have a realistic look to them and they swim very natural. They can be parraled together at varied hights to look more like natural small schooling.
Unfortunately the day I took them out for trial, was the day the fires were at their peak and they were scooping water from the lake. One of Tommys cousins was hanging around but was not arroused neither to those lil gills, buzzes, drop shots, carolinas, texas rigs, swimbaits,different sizes of megabaits, castaic swim baits, poppers, spinners, spoons, rapalas, (floating,sinking or countdowns in all colors) jumbo night crawlers, crawdads, or anything. The fishing was dead for the day with all of the airplanes around.
These guys (Tommy and cousins) hang out under the dock there but don't make their appearance until about 8 to 8:15 PST. By then the water will have gone up around 3 to 5 degrees.
I hope that I have been able to give you enough info to help me trouble shoot the problem. I have also been very maticulous about line types in all of the combinations that I have mentioned above. I have even gone as far as hiding out of his site with all of the combos aformentioned.
Lets see if you can help me crack the code. I would really appreciate it and like I said earlier. I am willing to compensate you for any advice that works.
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My son, TubeNtoo watched in awe and I think his breathing stopped for awhile while Tommy cannonballed back into the water. It was quite a site and gave me an idea. I went and bought some of those little bluegill looking lures in a few colors as well as some shad ones. They have a realistic look to them and they swim very natural. They can be parraled together at varied hights to look more like natural small schooling.
Unfortunately the day I took them out for trial, was the day the fires were at their peak and they were scooping water from the lake. One of Tommys cousins was hanging around but was not arroused neither to those lil gills, buzzes, drop shots, carolinas, texas rigs, swimbaits,different sizes of megabaits, castaic swim baits, poppers, spinners, spoons, rapalas, (floating,sinking or countdowns in all colors) jumbo night crawlers, crawdads, or anything. The fishing was dead for the day with all of the airplanes around.
These guys (Tommy and cousins) hang out under the dock there but don't make their appearance until about 8 to 8:15 PST. By then the water will have gone up around 3 to 5 degrees.
I hope that I have been able to give you enough info to help me trouble shoot the problem. I have also been very maticulous about line types in all of the combinations that I have mentioned above. I have even gone as far as hiding out of his site with all of the combos aformentioned.
Lets see if you can help me crack the code. I would really appreciate it and like I said earlier. I am willing to compensate you for any advice that works.
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