Post by djkimmel on Sept 19, 2005 21:39:11 GMT -5
Well, I was out with a friend again - Ben Felton and he's getting ready for the EverStart so I can't give away too much right now - not a big problem since I did about as well Saturday as I did last weekend at the State Championship.
We spent much of the day looking for deep fish, but only caught about 3 bass - 1 keeper each. Very exciting.
Interesting though, other than during the spring spawn up north, I've never seen so many sturgeon jumping as I did Saturday during the day.
It was very overcast with some rain in the morning and didn't break up and get very sunny until mid-afternoon. That may have had something to do with it. There's always fish jumping around, but usually they are suckers (saw a bunch of these too), some bass and some muskies. The big ones are usually musky or carp (or salmon in the fall), but I was looking right at a skinny 4-footer that came out of the middle of the channel and tail-walked about 8 AM.
A little later another skinny 4-footer did a porpoise vault. Then one a little longer and a whole lot fatter came about 2/3s out of the water only about 30 feet away and splatted down.
Late morning, another skinny 3 1/2 footer came straight up and down across the channel from us. We moved around a bunch and checked some shallow stuff even and out of the flats - even ran across the lake for a while. Upon returning to the same stretch of channel late afternoon, another 4+ foot sturgeon launched out of the water and dropped back in smooth enough to make Greg Louganis proud. I was looking right at the creature when it performed its routine.
We heard two or three other loud splashes that were probably other sturgeon. It was quite the show.
We did pull up on a 'hot' spot later that I failed to hit enough during the SC and whacked a small bass, a couple walleye and two nice smallies fairly quick. It gave been another pattern to work on.
I talked to him tonight and he had found some big fish on an old pattern that hasn't produced for a while, but appeared to show promise.
A lot more exciting than that deep dragging stuff that is Sominex to my fishing person.
Should be a challenging week for many anglers.
We spent much of the day looking for deep fish, but only caught about 3 bass - 1 keeper each. Very exciting.
Interesting though, other than during the spring spawn up north, I've never seen so many sturgeon jumping as I did Saturday during the day.
It was very overcast with some rain in the morning and didn't break up and get very sunny until mid-afternoon. That may have had something to do with it. There's always fish jumping around, but usually they are suckers (saw a bunch of these too), some bass and some muskies. The big ones are usually musky or carp (or salmon in the fall), but I was looking right at a skinny 4-footer that came out of the middle of the channel and tail-walked about 8 AM.
A little later another skinny 4-footer did a porpoise vault. Then one a little longer and a whole lot fatter came about 2/3s out of the water only about 30 feet away and splatted down.
Late morning, another skinny 3 1/2 footer came straight up and down across the channel from us. We moved around a bunch and checked some shallow stuff even and out of the flats - even ran across the lake for a while. Upon returning to the same stretch of channel late afternoon, another 4+ foot sturgeon launched out of the water and dropped back in smooth enough to make Greg Louganis proud. I was looking right at the creature when it performed its routine.
We heard two or three other loud splashes that were probably other sturgeon. It was quite the show.
We did pull up on a 'hot' spot later that I failed to hit enough during the SC and whacked a small bass, a couple walleye and two nice smallies fairly quick. It gave been another pattern to work on.
I talked to him tonight and he had found some big fish on an old pattern that hasn't produced for a while, but appeared to show promise.
A lot more exciting than that deep dragging stuff that is Sominex to my fishing person.
Should be a challenging week for many anglers.
