Fishing Knee Deep In A Lake Full Of "moon Shine"

[duckydoty]

After "Date Night" last night, DDsMC (my MonaChari) and I met up with Laker67 (Rick) for late night fishing under the "Super Moon" on Upper Lake Taneycomo. We met Rick down at the pavilion around 10pm, and visited for a while before gearing up. After catching up on everything we had done all winter, and reminiscing over old stories and the people we used to see down on the lake late at night, we decided to get on the water.

The moon was unbelievable last night. There was a fog lifting above the water and it was so bright that you could see details of footprints on the bank without turning on a light. They were supposed to be generating 1/2 unit all night, but the water was all the way off.

MonaChari and I started with white mink sculpins and fished closed to outlet 1. MonaChari was the first one to hook up, and as a matter of fact, the only one catching fish for quite a while. I tried changing colors, used different stripping techniques and could only manage a few short strikes. MonaChari's 3rd fish was the best one of the night, being a healthy 19 inch Bow.

After Rick and I got tired of getting skunked and watching MonaChari catching all the fish, we decided to move up to the flats between outlets 1 and 2. I changed back to the white mink sculpin and on my first cast, caught a fish. Finally got the skunk off my back. I started picking up quite a few fish, and thought I was doing pretty good then things just stopped for me. Not the case for MonaChari. Rick had even put his rod down and was on the bank watching her fish, trying to learn her retrieval technique, He kept hollering over to me "Duane, she's got another!". Dang! I was being out fished by a "Girl"!

We quit fishing about 1:30 am. I think I ended up with 9 or 10 fish and MonaChari probably had double that to hand. We started chatting with Rick again under the pavillion and before we knew it, it was 3am. Had a great night being out fished by my wife and a nice visit with a good friend, enjoying some "Moon Shine".

[Buzz]

Very cool.

[Nighthawk]

too bad you didn't have some liquid "shine" to wash it down with.

[laker67]

You could not have asked for a finer night on the creek. It's not always about catching large numbers of fish. As best as we could count, only 4 other people out last night and everyone was quiet and courteous. I will be the first to admit that I am not a "good" streamer fisherman and fishing was tuff. Last night proved that point because I got taken to streamer school by 2 anglers that are good. I finally just gave up and enjoyed the show. MC was definately outfishing DD. I was like the turtle on the freeway, I didn't stand a chance. DD felt sorry for me, so he left me with a handful of his most famous streamers, so I could have a chance to practice up before our next outing. Thanks for inviting me along guys, A most memorable outing. Be safe this summer in AK.

[Jason R.]

Thats awesome. I thought to myself how awesome it would be to night fish in that moon light last night.