I participated in a Fishing Derby/Tourney thingy for the first time ever. Never done competitive fishing, it was really fun fishing with others and exchanging stories. 5 best fish wins length wise. We got 3rd place but caught over 50 fish, win or lose it was a blast and I look forward to...
Well I did not have time to go to the Flattops, so I made a compromise and went somewhere close in the front range. Total hiking distance was about 6 miles Round Trip, and we saw a Moose on the way in. The lake is at 10,300 feet and we were there just a few days after it completely thawed...
Let the craziness that was Memorial Day weekend cool down and headed out to J. Mart.
First stop was to drop off 3 jugs tipped with baitfish. Gotta love the common sense regulations that still exist in some places in the state.
Next stop was the trestle. We cast out a minnow under a bobber and...
On the water around 6:45 a.m.
Breeze was up, not whitecaps, but just below that level. Didn't want to fight that on the troll so we stopped and jigged for a while. Ran into a couple walleye and as usual she caught more than I did using that technique :)
Conditions settled a bit (quite a bit...
Water temp was 65-66 but I didn't go further west than mid island so I'm sure it was higher Turkey Cr and
beyond. Fishing for bass is about as good as it gets down there. Hit one section of shoreline about 25 yds long
and just hammered the smallies one after another-must have been some late...
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