
troutdude
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Met up with 2 buddy's, in Salem. Then made a 2.25 -hour one-way trek, to Timothy Lake yesterday. A 3 hour trip, for me one-way. It was our first time, at Timothy.
Got onto the water, about 7:30. Only saw 4 other boats. It was a little chilly, in the morning @ 38 degrees. With some snow still on the ground.
Got splashed by some rain, a few times. But mostly a nice day, and much warmer when we quit at 5:00. We pretty much trolled the entire 13-mile long shoreline. Including quite a ways into the north arm; until it got too shallow. Where there are warning markers.
We even got out, started a nice warming fire (which we properly doused later), and still fished at Meditation Point for about an hour. We had 3, and sometimes 4, lines in the water (I have a 2 rod license).
We tried a wide variety of gear, mostly in the top 30' of the lake. Flasher sets of different sorts with trailing spoons, spinners, night crawlers, Berkley power eggs, mice tails, Rapala plugs, and more. But only got rewarded--for all of our combined efforts--with one, but nice and plump--18" rainbow. And we shared a lot of laughs. Including a sudden, but faked, "rod down"...on a buddy who fell asleep while trolling. Which woke him up, and got his blood pumping again! Nice of us, don't ya think? LOL
There was one other boat that, caught some fish. He had a 20-incher, another at 18, and two other a tad smaller. He was using a silver flasher (dodger?), and wedding rings. Which we immediately switched to, and tried for at least another hour. Plus we fished the same water that, we had seen him in. And still no more fish, for our boat.
But we had a great time. And isn't that, what it was all about? Two of us--with 4 other friends--will be camping their this summer. So this was, a scouting trip. If anyone has some summer-time tips on how to coax more fish, out of Timothy. I'm all ears...
Got onto the water, about 7:30. Only saw 4 other boats. It was a little chilly, in the morning @ 38 degrees. With some snow still on the ground.
Got splashed by some rain, a few times. But mostly a nice day, and much warmer when we quit at 5:00. We pretty much trolled the entire 13-mile long shoreline. Including quite a ways into the north arm; until it got too shallow. Where there are warning markers.
We even got out, started a nice warming fire (which we properly doused later), and still fished at Meditation Point for about an hour. We had 3, and sometimes 4, lines in the water (I have a 2 rod license).
We tried a wide variety of gear, mostly in the top 30' of the lake. Flasher sets of different sorts with trailing spoons, spinners, night crawlers, Berkley power eggs, mice tails, Rapala plugs, and more. But only got rewarded--for all of our combined efforts--with one, but nice and plump--18" rainbow. And we shared a lot of laughs. Including a sudden, but faked, "rod down"...on a buddy who fell asleep while trolling. Which woke him up, and got his blood pumping again! Nice of us, don't ya think? LOL
There was one other boat that, caught some fish. He had a 20-incher, another at 18, and two other a tad smaller. He was using a silver flasher (dodger?), and wedding rings. Which we immediately switched to, and tried for at least another hour. Plus we fished the same water that, we had seen him in. And still no more fish, for our boat.
But we had a great time. And isn't that, what it was all about? Two of us--with 4 other friends--will be camping their this summer. So this was, a scouting trip. If anyone has some summer-time tips on how to coax more fish, out of Timothy. I'm all ears...