Finally Clark Canyon

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I finally made it back to my computer. It was a great extended weekend. I got to Clark Canyon a couple hours before Ovid Creek but the wind made set up difficult so I only fished for an hour or so before Ovid Creek and company got there. The fishing was hot when we first started but as is the case with all fish it takes a while to get them tuned in. We were missing a lot of fish because we weren't setting the hook hard enough. So in the first couple of hours we landed four ling but had about a dozen on! However, as the evening went on we got them dialed in and ended up catching a dozen. We caught six more in the morning hours before we decided to take a break and go Dillon for lunch. We should have just packed it up and quit while we were ahead because when we got back there was one hot hour between 4 and 5 where we landed six. Then nothing until we packed up and went home at ten PM.

Overall it was a great time camping and talking with Ovidcreek. We kept three Ling that went 26,26,and 25 inches.

For those unfamiliar with Ling fishing it is fun but not easy. Clark Canyon had me feeling very wind burnt by the time we went home. We fished glow jigs tipped with sucker with a squirt of crawfish sent in 35 feet of water one inch off the bottom. Sometimes they wanted the bottom pounded and sometimes they wanted dead stick.

I can't explain why I love these strange ugly fish, but I think it is just the fact that they are caught at night. There is something magical about wandering around in the snow and wind chasing rods with a headlamp. It is extreme hard core fishing no doubt.

Thanks again Ovidcreek for fishing with us. Will have to do it again some time.

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