Post by Slartybardfast on Jun 27, 2010 11:47:01 GMT -5
Hello TFFers,
Teach and I went up to Chain O Lakes State Park Thursday morning and came home Saturday morning. We fished five lakes in two days and one morning. We had good weather, good food and we fished our butts off!
Teach frying up some bluegills we caught that morning. Notice the ruler on his apron goes to six inches.
Thursday after we set up camp we headed to Lake Webster and fished the southern part called the backwaters. We caught many bluegill and a few bass but we were after musky. No suck luck though.
As we got further south the winds really picked up so we headed back to camp to refuel and head back out. Thursday evening we fished Dock lake within the Chain O Lakes Park and had mediocre fishing. Pretty lake but the bite was off. Friday morning we headed to Loon Lake in search of musky again and had the best fishing of the trip. We worked this peninsula that came up from the south shore through the middle of the lake and had some good bass fishing.
At one point a pair of gars swam by and I put a 1/2" black popper in front of there faces. One of them snapped at it twice but no hook ups. Wow that really gets the adrenaline going!! The biggest fish of the whole trip was a huge bowfin I caught on a Krebs First Cast fly. What a dinosaur that thing was. It was a wide as the rear cross brace of my canoe!
We left Loon and had an early dinner back at camp. We then left for Diamond Lake to target northern pike. The evening bite was slow and we had a number of strikes with no hookups. Don't know if they were short striking or if I wasn't holding my mouth right.
Oh, I found the name of my next boat.
We missed you guys. Lets do it again this year.
Teach and I went up to Chain O Lakes State Park Thursday morning and came home Saturday morning. We fished five lakes in two days and one morning. We had good weather, good food and we fished our butts off!
Teach frying up some bluegills we caught that morning. Notice the ruler on his apron goes to six inches.
Thursday after we set up camp we headed to Lake Webster and fished the southern part called the backwaters. We caught many bluegill and a few bass but we were after musky. No suck luck though.
As we got further south the winds really picked up so we headed back to camp to refuel and head back out. Thursday evening we fished Dock lake within the Chain O Lakes Park and had mediocre fishing. Pretty lake but the bite was off. Friday morning we headed to Loon Lake in search of musky again and had the best fishing of the trip. We worked this peninsula that came up from the south shore through the middle of the lake and had some good bass fishing.
At one point a pair of gars swam by and I put a 1/2" black popper in front of there faces. One of them snapped at it twice but no hook ups. Wow that really gets the adrenaline going!! The biggest fish of the whole trip was a huge bowfin I caught on a Krebs First Cast fly. What a dinosaur that thing was. It was a wide as the rear cross brace of my canoe!
We left Loon and had an early dinner back at camp. We then left for Diamond Lake to target northern pike. The evening bite was slow and we had a number of strikes with no hookups. Don't know if they were short striking or if I wasn't holding my mouth right.
Oh, I found the name of my next boat.
We missed you guys. Lets do it again this year.
