fishinwrench

We finally heard from her again this morning. The area she is in now is beautiful. No trash, still funky water, but very pretty scenery. She caught a monk checking out her boobs. She says people don't have a problem STARING there, it was pretty creepy for her at first but I guess that's just the way they are. Definitely getting some culture....which is good I guess.

I can't understand why any fish would want to spend the majority of its life at that depth in this lake. The lake floor below 15ft. is mostly covered in a thick blanket of silt, so your visions of bass hanging around clean Rocky ledges and such are nothing more than a figment of your imagination. Imagine the landscape after a heavy snowfall and that's what things are like down there. Nothing aside from some insect larvae lives smothered in that 12-20" layer of yuck along the bottom. I'm certainly not denying that fish (lots of them) get located and caught down there, but my confidence is always short lived when trying to catch fish deeper than 12-15'. If I don't catch them pretty quick then I'm right back to fishing the shallower areas where I know things are more the way I think a fish would prefer.

First impressions..... I said "I wonder", Chief. Wasn't pegging anybody. God! 🙄

Have you ever ate one? (Otter) You don't have any business jackin' round in the ocean, you shoulda done all that stuff when you were younger. Keep your ol'butt at home! 🙂

I wonder if they throw their trash around here like they do back home ?

On the contrary, this trip has cost her over 3k but supposedly this is going to "look good on her resume" to some engineering firm. Whatever Why can't the engineering students from India do it? Anybody know? Because when I asked HER that she looked at me like I was stupid and wouldn't even acknowledge that I asked a question. She can't BS the ol'man, the real reason she went was so she could hike up the Himalaya's and do yoga and smoke hash on top of a mountain. 🤣

Yeah some. And if you mowed it there would be a confetti blizzard. From what I gather they have a shortage of toilets and trash cans. She went there to supposedly help high elevation communities build water supply's. But if anyone wants to help India I think about 170 truckloads of leaf rakes and Bic lighters would be a good idea. Along with about 60 pounds of methamphetamine to give them some initiative.

I'm hoping she comes home with a better appreciation for America. From the pics and videos she has sent us I can tell you one thing she has discovered there that she'll never experience here.... Unimaginable litter, and disgusting water that would gag a maggot.

Your tracking device is missing some updates. My home range is a circle that encompasses 5 counties, and if I can't find what I want within that area then I don't need it. My daughter, on the other hand, had to go all the way to India just to find HERSELF. Got lost in a dream or something I guess. Pretty sure she is batshit crazy.

I love my boat(s) and my body parts too much to put either in saltwater. I don't feel the need to catch every type of fish on the planet, I'm perfectly content with what's available in freshwater.

Over a 25 year period I have had 4 St.Croix rods, 2 Fenwick's, 1 Sage, and 1 Cabela's rod replaced. I only recall being out the shipping to return, except for one time I paid 36.00 for an upgrade. Maybe it's the method I use. I always call them on the phone, pay for a replacement so they'll ship it out immediately, then they reimburse me when the broken rod is received. Try doing it that way and I bet you'll only be out the shipping in the end

This is why saltwater fishing never really appealed to me. I have a genuine issue with being bait.

Shoulda hollered, I have a drawer 1/2 full of them and only need to have a couple in stock.

Not really an easy fix for a reel seat that didn't get installed properly. I guess you could drill it, add as much epoxy as you can stuff in the drilled holes, and then pin it. But if you do that the warranty is definitely toast. I was under the impression that Duckett was fairly proud of their rods. If I was them and had a loose reel seat out there somewhere I'd be apologetic as hell, and anxious to replace that rod. I wouldn't give 2-hoots about a receipt. I can tell you that their blanks are nothing special, so what you paid for was a well built rod.....and you didn't get one. You got a Wal-Mart quality rod with a cool name on it.

You've got me trying to think of where a decent shallow flat is that isn't in the backend of a creek arm/or cove. I can't think of a single one that is below Porter Mill bend. Don't you mostly fish the lower lake?

I'd send it back to them. They obviously didn't clean it and epoxy it good when building it. No way to fix it RIGHT without stripping the entire rod down, guides and all.

Well I headed out about 3:30 and found what I'm certain is a ton of Whites hanging out in 14-22'. I tried a jigging spoon, a lipless crank, and a sassy shad jig, and never even got a bump. They were so thick I can't believe I didn't at least snag one. Water is still 88-89° so I put the white bass tackle away and went after the green fish. Caught a few shorts slow rolling a spinnerbait over deep brushpiles, a few shorts on a swim jig, and one dink on a worm. It just wasn't happening out there so about 5:45 I headed to the shallows. Didn't take long at all to figure out something up there. Caught 7 keepers and a handful of shorts, but nothing much over 2lbs. The wife and kids are gone for the night and I had no dinner plans in mind other than frozen pizza. 3 LM sounded way better than Digiorno pizza. 😊

Actually I don't think they "herd the shad" at all. The shad are always there, the Whites just come in there and start eating them. No idea why, because there is always shad out where the Whites came from. No need to go anywhere....but I'm glad they do

I only fish midge patterns in slow water, and it's about the only time I ever use a bobber/indicator, mostly to keep it suspended at a certain depth, but also to detect the takes. I don't do the dry-dropper thing ever...but that's just me. Scuds I fish just like a nymph, with split shot above the fly, usually along the bottom or over the tops and along the edges of vegetation. Tight-line style, no bobber. Egg flys are a sight-fishing thing for me. Keep an eye on the bright little thing and set the hook when the light goes out. I like a Y2K bug with a bead (but not tungsten.... that's too heavy). Egg patterns are pretty much the only fly that I try to get a "drag free drift" with. Mega-worms and SJW's are fished the same way, totally by sight, but a little drag is fine.

I feel for all you guys that have such high maintenance eyes.

No, but when that happens it's a bonus. In another month or so they will start herding shad into shallow bays like this one and I can load up in no time at all when they go on their 30 minute-to-3 hour long gorge fest almost every evening in the backend of these coves. They will be hanging out over that 18-25' water at the mouth of the cove all day.... but you'll wear yourself out trying to catch any. Once they make the move back into water less than 10' they become way easier to catch. Sometimes the feed is quick, sometimes it lasts until dark, and sometimes it doesn't happen at all. There's no pattern to wind, cloud cover, water generation, or anything else that I can pinpoint, they just do what they do and you either get them or you don't. But it's always a late afternoon/evening thing. Mornings and mid-day is a waste of time.

Yeah we've had the cheap vs. expensive shades discussion about as often as we've argued about gigging and 4-stroke outboards. I always hope that I'll be able to take the opposite end of a discussion someday and prove that I can indeed change my mind about something. Actually I did (about something) but I can't remember what it was. With any luck at all I'll remember which side of the fence to stand on when the topic comes up again. 😊

The tortise race on Gilligan's island was my first clue that the Noah's ark story was made up. 🤔

Blot them dry with any cloth or paper towel and you won’t scratch them. Rubbing scratches. Blotting just creates a giant smear. If I gotta look through a dried up slimey smear then the quality of the lenses is kinda redundant. Your fish must behave much cleaner and neater than mine do. The ones I catch are always messy pigs that like to sling crap everywhere.

Pretty much a waste of time if you ask me. But I did catch a 5 pound Flathead in the riffle at Mountain creek once on a mudbug fly. At first glance I thought I had hooked a world record Hellbender. The deep bluff hole just above Riverfront campground has channel cat and gar swimming around in it.