Since the weather blew us off Lake Michigan this past weekend Ted and I decided to play it safe and hit a local lake. VIs is a little bit passed it's prime, but the fish were in!
Since things get a bit crowded on A Saturday morning we decided to bypass the traffic, and parking, problems and bike down there. We loaded up two sets of gear and and coolers of fish on ice onto my bike and Ted carried the weight belts. Everything worked out surprisingly well for the load that we were carrying and we got to bypass a lot of the madness from the framer's market- which is said to be the biggest, and best, in the US.
Once we hit the water I realized that i hadn't been in a, local, lake in a while because I was way overdressed in my 5mm and 3-finger mitts. :head Tedski got by with just a 3mm as the water was a balmy 68F all the way down to 20'. We were both toasty warm even after 3+ hours in the water. Next time out I bring the 3mm and leave a lot of extra lead at home.
We normally look for crappie, but the big bluegills were in, as well as some perch that we hardly ever see. We decided to go for our limit, but it turns out that our stringers can't actually hold our legal limit so we had to settle somewhere around 40 fish in total- a good 10 shy of our combined limit. All of them where in the 10" range, which doesn't sound like much when your shooting 100 pound tunas, but was pretty respectable for around here.
Here's a few above water shots:
Jon
Since things get a bit crowded on A Saturday morning we decided to bypass the traffic, and parking, problems and bike down there. We loaded up two sets of gear and and coolers of fish on ice onto my bike and Ted carried the weight belts. Everything worked out surprisingly well for the load that we were carrying and we got to bypass a lot of the madness from the framer's market- which is said to be the biggest, and best, in the US.
Once we hit the water I realized that i hadn't been in a, local, lake in a while because I was way overdressed in my 5mm and 3-finger mitts. :head Tedski got by with just a 3mm as the water was a balmy 68F all the way down to 20'. We were both toasty warm even after 3+ hours in the water. Next time out I bring the 3mm and leave a lot of extra lead at home.
We normally look for crappie, but the big bluegills were in, as well as some perch that we hardly ever see. We decided to go for our limit, but it turns out that our stringers can't actually hold our legal limit so we had to settle somewhere around 40 fish in total- a good 10 shy of our combined limit. All of them where in the 10" range, which doesn't sound like much when your shooting 100 pound tunas, but was pretty respectable for around here.
Here's a few above water shots:
Jon
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