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We had a rough start. We didn't get up there until about 9 pm because we stopped at a restaurant for dinner about 15 minutes outside of the lake. It was this surreal restaurant with a live bird exhibit and it took like 45 minutes to get our food. Plus everyone kept looking at us cause "we weren't from around there".
That night we spent a little time on the dock but got only one bite. Next day we found out that though the lake had been stocked one week prior nobody, I mean nobody, land or boat, was getting anything. Not even bites. We went all around the lake looking for the sweet spot with no luck. The only place with any reasonable success was the dam, but people were standing shoulder to shoulder to fish there. So we resigned ourselves to the dock.
We started our stint there around 1:30. At two our neighbors from the next campsite over came down and joined us and we noticed fish just started taking bugs off the top all around us. This was about 2 o'clock. We had been fishing powerbait from the bottom so at this point we all hooked on spinners and started cast and retrieve about 18" from the top. Third cast in, I hooked one. He took off with my brand new lure that my fiance had picked out for me. I was very dissapointed. I got the last laugh though because over the next hour he jumped out of the water a good 10 times trying to get my lure out of his mouth!
But he was only the beginning. The four of us hooked into about 10 fish. My fiance, on her 3rd day fishing, with her pink rod and pink spinner caught both of the two biggest fish that afternoon. Then at 3 o'clock the bite turned off and we never saw another fish all the way through this morning when we left. Below is a picture of the first fish my fiance caught. The second one was bigger but slipped out of her hands and into the water as we were getting the phone ready to take the picture.
So it sounds like those hatchery fish were fed at about 2 pm everyday because let me tell you, nobody was catching fish except then.
That night we spent a little time on the dock but got only one bite. Next day we found out that though the lake had been stocked one week prior nobody, I mean nobody, land or boat, was getting anything. Not even bites. We went all around the lake looking for the sweet spot with no luck. The only place with any reasonable success was the dam, but people were standing shoulder to shoulder to fish there. So we resigned ourselves to the dock.
We started our stint there around 1:30. At two our neighbors from the next campsite over came down and joined us and we noticed fish just started taking bugs off the top all around us. This was about 2 o'clock. We had been fishing powerbait from the bottom so at this point we all hooked on spinners and started cast and retrieve about 18" from the top. Third cast in, I hooked one. He took off with my brand new lure that my fiance had picked out for me. I was very dissapointed. I got the last laugh though because over the next hour he jumped out of the water a good 10 times trying to get my lure out of his mouth!
But he was only the beginning. The four of us hooked into about 10 fish. My fiance, on her 3rd day fishing, with her pink rod and pink spinner caught both of the two biggest fish that afternoon. Then at 3 o'clock the bite turned off and we never saw another fish all the way through this morning when we left. Below is a picture of the first fish my fiance caught. The second one was bigger but slipped out of her hands and into the water as we were getting the phone ready to take the picture.
So it sounds like those hatchery fish were fed at about 2 pm everyday because let me tell you, nobody was catching fish except then.
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I can say for sure im never stopping at any place near that lake for food.
- what kind of second mate is that??????:think: Well- that's always been my greatest fear since beginning downrigger fishing- so first time in 9 years- at least it didn't wrap the wire up in the prop and make a bigger mess. And no fingers were lost!
