Finally did it!! Caught a Mackinaw!! Once again, thanks to forum members who dished out some very good tips (You know who you are)
Got to Jefferson Lake between 4 and 4:30PM.
Went late as a "spur of the moment" thing as I cancelled the plan due to other plans... Well guess what? The other plans didn't pan out sooooo... GONE FISHIN!!
Trolled a brook trout colored large sized count down Rapala in I dunno how many ft of water (transducer/fishfinder may have just broke or something... It showed no depth, but it scrolls). Trolled from boat ramp all the way across to southern shoreline about 50 yds to 100 yds from shore and all the way back torwards the inlet. Nada. Put on a large thumbsized pearl white tube jig, tipped it with worm, tossed it in, let er' sink and them "thump?"...... Whack!! Reeled him up with toes crossed and sure enough it was..... A mackinaw!!. Lil guy was 16"
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Some will say "Man, that aint s***!" but this one's my 1st and that's always something special.
Anyways, my lady's bro and I kept fishin with the tubes and were getting lots of hits, but many misses. I managed to hook and reel up 4 more (I'm guestimating 2 of them were at 18" to 20") and all 4 of them spit the hook as they reached the surface :'( near the boat. But it's ok, 6 total fights with two completed.. I'm a happy camper. Landed 1 more small dinky one. My lady's bro had a few fish on too, but on the way torwards the boat they spit the hook. I believe the hook spittin was because Gander was short of the larger jig heads and the jig heads we had were kinda small for the jigs. Oh well, lesson learned.
They were hitting well especially if you put a larger chunk of worm on and all were hitting like within 10 to 25 yards from shore. Deep cold lil lake.. Kinda very breezy at times.. Lot's of snags.. Lot's of excitement and four lettered words.. 3 hrs of good fishin/exploration time.. Hell on the trailor goin up that dirt road and the paved-pot-holed-road. They all hit especially after bumping the bottom a few times.
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These two... Well.. I'm eating as we speak. Soaked them in Blue Moon beer overnight and threw em on the grill. Lots of butter, onions, cilantro, Mrs. Dash, salt & pepper and lime. My lunchbreak is good ;D
Got to Jefferson Lake between 4 and 4:30PM.
Went late as a "spur of the moment" thing as I cancelled the plan due to other plans... Well guess what? The other plans didn't pan out sooooo... GONE FISHIN!!
Trolled a brook trout colored large sized count down Rapala in I dunno how many ft of water (transducer/fishfinder may have just broke or something... It showed no depth, but it scrolls). Trolled from boat ramp all the way across to southern shoreline about 50 yds to 100 yds from shore and all the way back torwards the inlet. Nada. Put on a large thumbsized pearl white tube jig, tipped it with worm, tossed it in, let er' sink and them "thump?"...... Whack!! Reeled him up with toes crossed and sure enough it was..... A mackinaw!!. Lil guy was 16"
<img src="http://tinypic.com/5m9ydv" alt="Image hosted by TinyPic.com">
Some will say "Man, that aint s***!" but this one's my 1st and that's always something special.
Anyways, my lady's bro and I kept fishin with the tubes and were getting lots of hits, but many misses. I managed to hook and reel up 4 more (I'm guestimating 2 of them were at 18" to 20") and all 4 of them spit the hook as they reached the surface :'( near the boat. But it's ok, 6 total fights with two completed.. I'm a happy camper. Landed 1 more small dinky one. My lady's bro had a few fish on too, but on the way torwards the boat they spit the hook. I believe the hook spittin was because Gander was short of the larger jig heads and the jig heads we had were kinda small for the jigs. Oh well, lesson learned.
They were hitting well especially if you put a larger chunk of worm on and all were hitting like within 10 to 25 yards from shore. Deep cold lil lake.. Kinda very breezy at times.. Lot's of snags.. Lot's of excitement and four lettered words.. 3 hrs of good fishin/exploration time.. Hell on the trailor goin up that dirt road and the paved-pot-holed-road. They all hit especially after bumping the bottom a few times.
<img src="http://tinypic.com/5ma6g8" alt="Image hosted by TinyPic.com">
These two... Well.. I'm eating as we speak. Soaked them in Blue Moon beer overnight and threw em on the grill. Lots of butter, onions, cilantro, Mrs. Dash, salt & pepper and lime. My lunchbreak is good ;D
Gives me great reference on the size. Everyone should put something in their pics like that, no guess work on how long something is! But then again they don't make "pony" size in that brand do they?
