Figured I was doomed. Monday the 13th after a big boating weekend. Doubted there would be much around the harbor. I was right. But there were lotsa fishies to the south.
Water temp was 64 in the harbor and 63 on the main lake when I launched about 6:30. Felt cool to the touch…since this was my first waderless trip this year. About a month later than last year.
Got a couple of hits around the points at the ends of the dikes on the way out but no hookups, besides rocks. I released them unharmed.
Figured there might be some white bass hanging around the bubbleup…and that if there were whities there might be wallies. Been some bigguns being caught down there recently.
This was a non-catfish day. Decided to throw plastics and hardbaits to try for walleyes and maybe some whities. Didn’t work. Stupid cats ate the plastics and cranks too. Also caught several on big minnows I was fishing for WALLEYES…way out at the end of the bubbleup in 11 feet of water.
Saw quite a few fish in the area of the last 3 or 4 buoys at the bubbleup but they would not hit small plastics. Strange. Picked up my crankbait rod and it was game on. Caught grundles of white bass for the next couple of hours. Kept changing colors on my little homemade cranks…trying to find one they would NOT hit. Didn’t happen. They were active and they wanted a lure with action.
I did catch a few whites on the small plastics but most of them came on either fire tiger or pale perch crankbaits. They hit hard and fought hard. I caught well over 50 but only kept about half that. Some were over 12 inches.
**I had told myself that I would probably only fish until about noon…but that self promise has been broken before. Not this time. Mama Nature took a deep breath just before noon and WHOOOSH. A pretty strong and steady north wind made it fun to get back in…even with my electric motor on my tube. **
As I reached the harbor I noticed that all the bank tanglers had vacated the windy outside shoreline and had moved to fish inside the harbor. Saw my old buddy Coldfooter, his daughter and her kids chuckin’ bubbles just around the corner. They had managed a few fish but packed up and left about the same time as I hit the ramp. Good to see ya again Don.
Was trying out my new electric motor handle extension I whupped up from some flexible blue conduit I got at Lowes. Worked like a charm. Better than the expensive ones you can buy as an aftermarket accessory.
Yeah, Monday the 13th is better than Friday the 13th. Just gotta time it right.
That is a nice haul for a couple of hours work — not counting the filleting!!!
A pretty morning anyway.
Hey, looks like a good 1/2 day 
Im glad that flex handle worked out. That is good to
know for later [;)]
Thank you big guy.
Peter
Man what a nice day to be out and on the water. Alittle too cold for me without any waders but then again I’m a California kid. I really like the conduit extension I’m sure there will be a few new innovations including some crazy PVC/ Conduit hybrid adjustable tool rack/utility rack haha. I’m debating on adopting your rod rack , sushi/ outrigger assembly for my ODC. Do you have any detailed pics available still… Congrats on the catch!!
Boy does that look like fun[fishin]
Yeah, that blue flexible conduit solved all of the little hinky problems I experienced with my other handle extension experiments. Love it. After a couple more trips to further fall in love with it I will probably post a pictorial on it.
Not sure if I have added the following attachment to any of my previous posts, but it includes a history of some of the PVC “innovations” I have gone through on my journey to finding the “ultimate” rod holders and utility racks. Happy with the modular system I am using now but I still look sideways at it once in a while and wonder if maybe I am missing something.
I see that also my fly rod holder made it . NICE !!!
Peter
I see that also my fly rod holder made it . NICE !!!
Peter
So what? Now you want royalties? Fine, I’ll give you 110% of everything I make from it. We’ll make that on the TAC plan (Try and collect).
I figure that there are plenty of folks who “accommodate” my stuff that I should have the right to occasionally include a pic or two from other sources. And you got good ideas…sometimes.
Mine (or SCOTTY) is on page 20!!!
But that is the only one[:/] I guess I need PVC instead of ABS…LOL
I see that also my fly rod holder made it . NICE !!!
Peter
So what? Now you want royalties? Fine, I’ll give you 110% of everything I make from it. We’ll make that on the TAC plan (Try and collect).
I figure that there are plenty of folks who “accommodate” my stuff that I should have the right to occasionally include a pic or two from other sources. And you got good ideas…sometimes.
Easy big guy ! I was just happy that my piece of $%#@
made it to “the book”.[;)]
Peter
Sorry if I came off as being offended. No worries. I was just funnin’ on ya.
**Thanks for your contribution…even if you didn’t know about it. **
Its all good brother [;)]
Peter