06-23-2009, 10:36 PM
[cool][#0000ff]Not a good day for BFTers on Yuba. TubeBabe and I met up with LloydE just before 7 AM at Painted Rocks. A fourth tuber, FishKillr didn't show. Turned out he blew a head gasket on the way down. Bad start.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Fuzzyfisher and son Tommy made it down, with their boat. So did UtWalleye and his crew. Then everybody hit the water and went different directions. We might as well of just soaked a crawler from the bank.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Water temp 63 at launch, and a bit murky. Warmed to 67 by 1 PM takeout. We all covered a LOT of water, fishing everything from big cranks for pike to small jigs for perch. Dragged some walleye rigs for those guys too, without any success. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I kicked clear across the lake and worked the brushy areas on the other side. No pike and no nothing else. Finally had a couple of perch pecks. TubeBabe announced on the walkie talkie that she was also cultivating a skunk...and that LloydE was also fishless. So were a couple of boaters who slid by within chatting range.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I was trying out a new sonar...a Humminbird 565. It showed me lots of fish, at all depths. But, most of them had puckered mouths, lots of scales and rhymed with tarp. Strangely, not even the buglemouths were biting. They have been a nuisance the past week, grabbing everything thrown or dragged for other species.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Finally got into an area about 14 to 16 feet deep that had some "interesting" signals on the bottom. Might be something other than carp. Had a couple of taps, lost the worm from my jig, rebaited, sent it back down and BOINK. Scored a 9 inch perch. Thought I was on a pattern and would proceed to hammer them. WRONG. No more perch all day.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I did have one nice walleye a while later. Hit one of my new "jingle jigs". Just a bit over a rod length away from the net, it opened its mouth and did the patented walleye "lure return". Looked like about 4 or 5 pounds. But, I didn't care. NOT MUCH.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]That was it for me. TubeBabe brought her skunk to shore. LloydE managed one carp and a lost carpeye (a carp he claimed was a walleye). Fuzzy and Tommy cruised in to check on us before we got out. They had worked a large area of the lake too and had not even had one bite. I hope the afternoon was better for them than the morning was for all of us.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Purty weather. Only a light breeze. But, with cooler water from last week and the fish just getting a break after a series of fronts, everything was pretty tight. A few nice days and it should get better.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]One note. The water level seems to be very low to me...for this time of year. Depths are at late summer levels already. All other lakes in Utah are spilling. Whats up with that?[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Fuzzyfisher and son Tommy made it down, with their boat. So did UtWalleye and his crew. Then everybody hit the water and went different directions. We might as well of just soaked a crawler from the bank.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Water temp 63 at launch, and a bit murky. Warmed to 67 by 1 PM takeout. We all covered a LOT of water, fishing everything from big cranks for pike to small jigs for perch. Dragged some walleye rigs for those guys too, without any success. [/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I kicked clear across the lake and worked the brushy areas on the other side. No pike and no nothing else. Finally had a couple of perch pecks. TubeBabe announced on the walkie talkie that she was also cultivating a skunk...and that LloydE was also fishless. So were a couple of boaters who slid by within chatting range.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I was trying out a new sonar...a Humminbird 565. It showed me lots of fish, at all depths. But, most of them had puckered mouths, lots of scales and rhymed with tarp. Strangely, not even the buglemouths were biting. They have been a nuisance the past week, grabbing everything thrown or dragged for other species.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Finally got into an area about 14 to 16 feet deep that had some "interesting" signals on the bottom. Might be something other than carp. Had a couple of taps, lost the worm from my jig, rebaited, sent it back down and BOINK. Scored a 9 inch perch. Thought I was on a pattern and would proceed to hammer them. WRONG. No more perch all day.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]I did have one nice walleye a while later. Hit one of my new "jingle jigs". Just a bit over a rod length away from the net, it opened its mouth and did the patented walleye "lure return". Looked like about 4 or 5 pounds. But, I didn't care. NOT MUCH.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]That was it for me. TubeBabe brought her skunk to shore. LloydE managed one carp and a lost carpeye (a carp he claimed was a walleye). Fuzzy and Tommy cruised in to check on us before we got out. They had worked a large area of the lake too and had not even had one bite. I hope the afternoon was better for them than the morning was for all of us.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]Purty weather. Only a light breeze. But, with cooler water from last week and the fish just getting a break after a series of fronts, everything was pretty tight. A few nice days and it should get better.[/#0000ff]
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[#0000ff]One note. The water level seems to be very low to me...for this time of year. Depths are at late summer levels already. All other lakes in Utah are spilling. Whats up with that?[/#0000ff]
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