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I got the boat out fishing for the first time since a rebuild. I put in at Lincoln and headed towards sterling point with line in the water a little after 7AM. I put the surface line out first per Two Brothers report and had my first fish on within a very short time.
it seems the 1&1/2 years in-between fishing trips caused me to forget how to tie a Knot? First fish took my Favorite Home Made Fly. Oh well I had two others from years past that I found. I proceeded to set up the Lead and put out 3 colors, and then reset up the mono with a similar mepps I had picked up at White Elephant.
the lead out produced the 180 ft of mono all day with a hits 10 to 15 to 1 on the mono.
the mouths of the fish must be pretty soft as they were very hard to get hooked up and then to the boat.
I had 4 in the boat with 4 lost by the boat by 9:30, I was beginning to think I had fallen astray to my net trainers fortune of not being able to complete the task. At about that time the ravenous bite seemed to slooooww waaay doooowwwnnnn... the lead continued to get a nibble all day with an occasional hit on the mono.
I noticed a continual "fish" picture in 80 to 90ft of water at 40 to 60ft, again in 180 +/- their seemed to be a line of fish at about 100 to 120 ft. I am not educated enough to know if that was fish or just something in the thermocline???
when the bite slowed down I put on a downrigger and went down to 60 ft. I drug that around for an hour or so, first time I had tired to use one, I got into 50 ft of water and started bouncing it around. I was able to get it up in time with no damage. when I gave up on that process I found a small walleye on the end of the line. I have know idea how long I had been dragging him around but he was plenty tired.
I finally got the 5th trout into the boat about 1:30 and headed home..
it was a very pretty, very relaxing day.
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