Born to Fish

Lookin like rough seas this weekend.

We have been watchin the wave reports but it doesn't look promising. Kinda looks like the 20th for us anyway.....

Mark , we duck hunt the lake so we have practiced launching with waders.

Golden Hill is still a lot easier for the wader method though b/c of the little cove its in theres no current moving the boat around.

Made it out with a bud for a few hours out of oak orchard today.

went 2 for 2 in a couple of hours. One dark colored steelie (prollly fresh out of the river) and one brown. Not a lot of good colored water around , mostly clear or muddy. Fish came off gold/black and brown trout colored J-9's .

Brought a camera but only remembered to take a sucky cell phone pic

Theres obviously no docks but its still pretty easy from the launch with waders on.

Thats really it , not much ice or debris to worry about, hopefully Saturday will be good.

And got a flat tire on the trqailer on the ride home (thats what shakedown day is for I guess)

Cons:

.. Connection to the cable is kind of funky

... sometimes the unit will drop out and you need to put a wet towel on the antenna (although know one knows why but it works)

Pros:... (In my experience)

.....Battery lasts forever (9 volt)

....Battery remaining voltage is on the screen

....Gives Depth on the screen

....Great customer service (The speed portion quit working in my unit and the fixed it free without receipt or question)

I just checked point breeze launch yesterday because I got the itch really bad also. The county launch (east side) is clear all the way to the lake, although th water level is low and there aren't any docks yet. Also checked Golden Hill and theres ice mountains in the lake guarding the entrance but it looks like they are slowly breaking up. Last year we were able to get out on March 15th and went 5 for 7 in about an hour and a half. this year we are gonna shoot for next saturday if the wave and weather reports look good.

39 here

Prayers sent. Hope your Dad gets well soon.

It is a carbon 14, and it doesn't produce a whole lot on our boat.

When it is charged though it is ther brightest thing I ever saw. You could probably use it for a flashlight.

My buddy cut the ring off and we tried to push the tip back through the skin but the hook went in at too much of an angle.

I eneded up having to go to ER and they tried to push it through also and it wouldn't go, so they ended up making a cut until they exposed the barb and then took it out.

The dr said that in the busy season they remove 2-3 hooks a day in the ER. I didn;t feel so bad after that.

Last time this happened to me I was 13 yrs old.....

Good job Mark, I saw your combo hooked up in your yard the other day and figured you had a chance to get out.

I also see that big ol' camper in your side yard all summer... looks like too much work and not enough time for the toys...

I'm off to do some family camping this weekend at jellystone....

Fishing Report

Your Name / Boat Name: Calypso

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Man does it feel good to be back in the states........

Got home from China at 3am Friday morning... Fishing partner shows up at 4:45 and we head to the oak...

Of course by now Legacy has this huge fish ( good job by the way), and we convinced ourselves we were going to break thirty lbs this weekend....

Friday am - set up in 90 and went North to 250 and kept working that area all morning, pulling 14 fish, 5 in the 20-24 range...

Everything seemed to work, and then it shut completely off by 10am....

Saturday - Same set-up..... two dipseys with spinny flies and two riggers with spoons.... We hit a 15 lb right away on an old pirate 66 spoon that has been pretty decent for us lately, get him back into the water and I try to reset the rod when the other rigger goes off (55 down, fish hit free slider lazer spook), tell my bro in law he's up, he says go ahead. Well after about 1/2 hr it gets about 50 feet from the boat and another rod takes off, rippin drag, so bro in law grabs that rod, I set my fish in the rod holder and set up the net myself, thinking mines about 20-22 ishlbs..... We get it to the net and its got a lot of girth to it, and wouldnt ya know it ends up at 29 lb 2 oz, good enough for 5th in orleans derby plus the 200 bones for orleans resident fish, kinda cool. I misjudged the fish by about 7-8 pounds when guessing according to it's fight...

Any way, bro in law gets back on his rod and we drop the fish like a minnute later....

Then 190 FOW a spinny fly (mt dew spinny with glow packer atomik) goes straight for Canada...

bro in law gets him slowed down at about 600ft out and then 1/2 hr later, fish is at about 200 out and it just drops off..good pressure on the fish, not too horsey, just the way it goes DANGGGGGG... so I spend the next rest of the day bustin his balls...

Sunday..... fished the same area with extra person and a 5 rod spread...

all was qoiet until about 6:30, then it was literally fish fish fish fish, all small 8 lb steeelies and kings with one 20ish king mixed in, we hit 12 fish in about 1 hr off of 5 rods and then at 7:30 it just dried right up, we only picked a few more small ones and went into port, the sun was pretty brutal this weekend...

Had to cut out of the awards thing early to catch brooks n dunn concert, really wanted to see the big one... congrats by the way, good to see a local guy win the local derby, (no offense non residents, i love you guys too)...

Jim S......

36 and change......... Hopefully from the Oak by me

Jim, sounds like good fishin... Me and Jack Finear are sittin in the Shanghai airport right now waiting for our flight back...

Hopefully I'll be out Fri,Sat, Sun So give me a call / vice versa...

Jim Starr

Awesome FISH!!!!

Congrats... It's good to see people from the board getting on the leaderboard...

Gambler, Thanks for the post.

So does anyone have a really cool story about a monster 31.9 hog salmon they caught this weekend?

That's bigger than the winner last year and it's only the first weekend.....

ps..........china sucks

can anyone post it on here once in a while?

I'm in china until the 13th and cant get attheoak.. its a "forbidden" site

I run the same unit with a blacks release about 1 foot above the probe.

I put a crimp between the holes on the blacks where the rigger cable threads through to keep it up out of the way, and I clip the safety clip from the probe on that little section of rigger cable in case someday I lose the ball I won't lose the probe also.

never had a tangle, knock on wood.

I think ther secret is the leader length from flasher to bait.

I catch a lot of fish on cut bait but they are always small and they blow it to pieces in one hit. It averages about a buck a fish and they are always 8 pounds.

It's cool on the slow days because fish will take it but just never anything over 20lb.

Meanwhile I run other stuff at the same depths and catch bigger fish.

I tried to set my leader length so it's comparabe to what a fly spins at behind a spin doctor, but still don't get many big fish on it.

I use the large reasers , I think they are ryes davis.

It would be cool to see the old eslo boards too.

I've searched but could only find the winner for each Eslo.

Cannon snt gives back depth.

I will check actual vs the counter on the DR next trip and see what the difference is.

I don't feel so bad anymore.

Guess it happens to all of us at some time.

BTW great play by play story.... Thanks for sharing.

Fleas were a lot better today

(Calypso) : Fishing Report

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Date(s): (7-17-09)

Time on Water: (6:00 AM – 12:00 PM)

Temp/Weather: (85°F and sunny, overcast, rain, snow)

Wind Speed/Direction: (NW at 8 MPH)

Waves: (1-2 Footers, Calm)

Surface Temp: (72°F)

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Total Hits: (0, 5 10, etc.)

Total Boated: (0, 5, 10, etc.)

Species Breakdown: (3 Kings, 2 Bows, 1 Brown, 5 Lake Trout)

Hot Lure: (NK28, White Spindoctor with Green A-TOM-MIC Fly)

Trolling Speed: (2.1 mph)

Down Speed: (1.8 mph)

Boat Depth: (200 ft)

Lure Depth: (80 ft)

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Fished Today with my son and my father in law.

We only fished with 5 rods. two dipseys, two riggers, and copper down the middle (more of a mess than it's worth).

We started out in about 100 FOW and trolled straight north.

Got the third rod down and the first one took off, my sons starts us out with a 22.12 king on a spook spoon ( a great big pirate 66).

long in short we went 12 for 18 today, all kings.

My 15 yr old is quicker than billy the kid when a rod goes off. I can't beat him to a rod. he probably reeled in 8 today.

The first fish was the biggest, we kept 6 (mostly the ones we couldn't get to swim away).

Dropped the only two fish that hit the copper, about halfway during the retrieve. I don't think it hooks them very well.

Other stuff that worked... Everything except nbk really. Thats the only thing that didn't get touched.

spinnys and flies worked, cut bait worked, spooks and glow frogs worked.

We fished between 50-90 feet down over 100-210 fow.

Hopefully back out tomorrow or Sunday.

Jim S.

Congradulations man... Best thing in life right there.....

Sweet fish.

good to see other Lyndonians catching stuff.

Jim