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On Sat after the "Morning Chores", Cindy and I hooked up the boat and headed to Roses for a lil R&R. There was a thunder storm hanging over Stormy Mt as we left chelan, and by the time we got to Roses the storm had moved on south of us. A little wind, but otherwise great. Saw afk and his son, who had caught some fish, on the water. Up until that time we hadn't caught very much. Then things picked up. We caught several crappie, bluegill and a couple of yellow perch. No trout today. The fish seemed to be holding tight in the toulees and we had to go down to 1/64 oz with tiny tubes to get them to bite. They just wouldn't latch on to the 1/16 oz baits. Cindy was using a 1/64 oz Sparkle jig on 4# P-line. We are up against the toulees, dropping the lil jigs down by the stalks, and were picking up a keeper fish once in a while. I hear the toulees rattling, and Cindy saying "I don't know what I got on". I look around to see the yellow rod bent over, and the toulees looked as if a MinnKota was loose in there. The silt was all stirred up and the stalks were waving. After some fancy rod work she got the critter up where I could get the net under it. A whopping 2# 4oz LMB had hit that tiny jig. Well that made her day. We saw a catfish swim under the boat in about 4 feet of water, and it was probably 5-6 pounds. With the LMB and cats, the baitfish were staying in the cover. We caught several small (under 12 in) LMB but only the one of any size. The crappie were 9-11 inches, the bluegill 7-8 inches, and the Yellow perch stretching out to 10 1/2 inches. What a variety of fish. We used yellows, reds, black, green, clear with metal flake, and didn't find any color that was the consistent producer. We ended the day with a couple of pounds of fillets, so a good meal to come.
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