AndyS
05-27-2012, 05:43 PM
Talked it over with Lard yesterday afternoon and he didn't seem too happy about making the trip, just as well for him, fishing was slow !
After hashing out some family buisness late last night I finally got the green light, I didn't hesitate, I started packing for MC.
On the water by 7am and it was a completely different lake from yesterday. I guess yesterdays thunder storms really put the fish down. I read in a book that it is common for a lake to shut down after thunder storms, such was the case. Fished hard and could only scare up a handful of stockie browns. Finally I connected with a broodstock. I didn't try to get the small #8 Mustad 3906 hook out of the fish. I think Manny Luftglass was right in saying if I try to get that 5 cent hook out of the fish I will only kill it, so I cut the line, in time the hook should rust out.
Had some rumbles of thunder in the distance so I came in near the ramp, and so did others. I set up in 35 FOW and didn't find any love there, called it a day shortly after that. I just got a call from a buddy who up there now and he said the surface temp. went from 66 yesterday to the mid 50's today, and he said the same, fishing is slow. He did get a 10lb. brown is his boat yesterday.
Well, I had a great vacation, didn't hit a fraction of the places I said I was going to hit but had fun beating up MC nonetheless, still looking for another double digit brown trout from there but it almost seems as hard as finding a needle in a haystack. I know there has to be a 15lb. brown in there and maybe some even bigger.
I will continue to write my letters and send e mails about the natural reproduction of lake trout in MC, I also have names and phone numbers of those who work at MC.
Todays brown trout, not very pretty but I got him in the boat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwhRE4Sj1cA
1st photo from yesterday, 2nd a photo of a 9lb. brown from MC in early April (angler unknown)
After hashing out some family buisness late last night I finally got the green light, I didn't hesitate, I started packing for MC.
On the water by 7am and it was a completely different lake from yesterday. I guess yesterdays thunder storms really put the fish down. I read in a book that it is common for a lake to shut down after thunder storms, such was the case. Fished hard and could only scare up a handful of stockie browns. Finally I connected with a broodstock. I didn't try to get the small #8 Mustad 3906 hook out of the fish. I think Manny Luftglass was right in saying if I try to get that 5 cent hook out of the fish I will only kill it, so I cut the line, in time the hook should rust out.
Had some rumbles of thunder in the distance so I came in near the ramp, and so did others. I set up in 35 FOW and didn't find any love there, called it a day shortly after that. I just got a call from a buddy who up there now and he said the surface temp. went from 66 yesterday to the mid 50's today, and he said the same, fishing is slow. He did get a 10lb. brown is his boat yesterday.
Well, I had a great vacation, didn't hit a fraction of the places I said I was going to hit but had fun beating up MC nonetheless, still looking for another double digit brown trout from there but it almost seems as hard as finding a needle in a haystack. I know there has to be a 15lb. brown in there and maybe some even bigger.
I will continue to write my letters and send e mails about the natural reproduction of lake trout in MC, I also have names and phone numbers of those who work at MC.
Todays brown trout, not very pretty but I got him in the boat.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwhRE4Sj1cA
1st photo from yesterday, 2nd a photo of a 9lb. brown from MC in early April (angler unknown)