Took my fiancee Pamela out for an evening of trolling on I-82 pond # 2. The weather has been beautiful and cooler, so It was a perfect evening and conditions to get my girl into some fish. I had pre-tied a number of wedding ring spinners in red/silver, chartuse/brass and a couple of gold/pearl Smiley blade spinners with a # 6 & #4 True Turn light wire panfish hooks. Pam used a red beaded wedding ring with a rainbow trout colored blade, while I stuck to the gold/pearl Smiley blade, both tipped with 1/2 a worm. We also set an 1/8th oz. bullet weight, # 10 black snapswivel and red bead about 3 ft from our spinners. After 30 pulls of line, the action was pretty fast and furious, and it wasn't long before both of us had 4 keepers apiece. So switched out the bait hooks to # 6 barbless green and cherise Carey special flies so we could catch and release the rest of our trout. We ended up catching and releasing nearly 2 dozen fish (along with retaining our final biters for (2) 5 fish limits) in barely an hour and a half. Now Pam is a fishing addict! She wants to go back soon...tonight we had the whole lake to ourselves, lots of fiesty fish to 14" and good fighters. Don't get much better than that, (even if I never did throw a jig. LOL...) The Jigmiester

Yakivegas

5/21/2009 10:13:00 PM

You always have some interesting posts.sounds like you fish all over like me.Are you running your boat under the freeway to get there?

blufin loui

5/22/2009 8:13:00 AM

Another great report Jigmiester,You do realize you're creating a delema getting Pam interested in fishing? Next thing you know, she'll have perfected a fishing technique, and everytime (and that will be often), you'll have a harder time staying in the lead as the competition grows :o). Joking aside, It's great your fishing partner is enjoying the act of fishing. Keep up the good reports and stay safe out there.

The Jigmiester

5/22/2009 12:59:00 PM

Yaki. I've found some awesome lakes using Google Sattelite Maps, It's a great tool for fishing. I use a modified dolley cart and straps to roll my aluminum Jon boat thru the tunnel. It works good, and I strip down my boat to it's lightest, though, unfortunately I accidently broke my transducer bracket mount the last time on my fish finder! Loui. I experimented with my plastic Hellgamites by trolling for trout by cutting action disks from the curve of a Gatorade bottle. The round,curved, clear plastic piece just ahead of the bug made it wobble like crazy after I slipped a small bullet weight right at it's head. I'm thinking that those Rufus Woods Triploids would tear them hellgamites up trolled like this! And yes, Pam just loves to fish, and the other night she was up 7 to nothing before I even touched a fish! ( I caught up though...) LOL You and I have some great girls, don't we? Later, TJM

Yakivegas

5/22/2009 4:43:00 PM

I too made a set of wheels for my jon boat with a pair of 20 inch bike tires and some 2x4's.It worked great when i trucked down to Rotary and Myron.I threw everything in the boat and strapped it down.The batteries work well as counter balance which makes pushing alot easier.When i went under the tunnel to #1 and 2 I realized my wheels were too wide and the ridges on the tunnel walls ate the rubber off my wheels.Thank god for Les Schwab and their solid rubber bicycle tires.Was back in action the next day.Did have to shorten the frame a bit.Plan on going back down to see how well it works now.That disc thing you do sounds like it would do real good.I bet a streamer like a wooley bugger would benefit from this too.All these lakes around here I do the best with a flyrod with sinking line and an olive wooley bugger trolled real slow occaisionally stripping off a pull of line here and there.most of the time they nail it right afterwards.

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