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Post by Jmcfarland on Jun 20, 2005 18:15:55 GMT -5
I got out on this lake for the first time sunday evening (6/19). Fished from about 6:30 til 9. Went out to a spot marked on a hotspot map and fished along a SHARP dropoff. The drop was so sharp the front of my boat would be in 3 fow and the back was in 20. Fished with an X-rap in a black back clear bottom. Had plenty of follows on it but no hits. Switched to a strike king zero and nailed a huge fish. It stayed down forever and i didnt know if i would get it or not. Finally did. Now for the embarassing part. Didnt know what it was. It was like a catfish for skin. No split in its tail. A round mouth like a catfish and A LOT of teath it its upper mouth. Must have weighed about 10 lbs. While im messing around with this thing my girlfriend nails a big smallie on a jighead and mistertwister tail. Let this thing back and grab the net to land a 21 inch almost 5 pound smallmouth. Fish the rest of the evening I get another hit and the fish takes me down and tangles itself in the brush and gets off. Not a bad night for the first time ever on the lake and only about 2 hours of fishing. thanks to Blakstr1 for telling me about this awesome lake.
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Post by savage912 on Jun 20, 2005 18:26:25 GMT -5
Sounds like you were in South Fishtail Bay along the drop. That's a good spot to hit any time of year. I've scored well on that lake with a senko (or Zero) rigged on a really light jighead. I think it was a white one with silver flake. Right at the North end of the drop in South Fishtail Bay, just out from the reeds and casting down the drop. Never had much luck on any other baits except during spawn. Let us know if you go back.
Was the big unknown fish a Bowfin (a.k.a. dogfish)?
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Post by Jmcfarland on Jun 20, 2005 22:04:05 GMT -5
Coulda been but it didnt bark. Just kidden. It probably was but i thought dogfish were toothless. Anyway we took off from next to the douglas lake bar and went out to the big point just north west of Fishtail bay.
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Post by savage912 on Jun 21, 2005 19:24:02 GMT -5
Oh yeah, those guys got plenty of teeth, don't lip them! There are lots of good drops on that lake, and that is really the spot to catch them. Once the spawn is done, they go pretty deep.
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Post by djkimmel on Jun 23, 2005 2:10:10 GMT -5
A dogfishes bite IS worse than its 'bark.'
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Post by Jmcfarland on Jun 23, 2005 16:19:42 GMT -5
The big fish was a bowfin. I looked it up.aka dogfish Thanks guys
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Post by savage912 on Jun 29, 2005 19:48:47 GMT -5
I actually saw a dogfish chase a bullhead (catfish) once. Just about fell out of the boat laughing. . . . .
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