sageadvice
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Larrbo invited me out on his fine boat for a trolling session on our Lake Almanor this morning and i gotta say, it was just not your typical day fishing the Lake.
We had just left his dock, 6:45 am nice dock right in front of his beautiful lakefront 2nd home, when i cast out my lure, you know, to get some line out way behind the boat before clipping it in the downrigger clamp. Before i can even get the line in the clamp, i can feel a fish pulling on the line that was now in my hand. I really can't hardly believe it, neither could Larry, but on winding in my slack, sure enough, i had on and then landed a nice scrappy 18" rainbow.
OK!! What a great way to start the day! After i had played out and then put the fish on the stringer, i cast out again. This time i was able to lower the line with the DR but we figured that being i caught the last fish on top, he must have been near it, so i only lowered the rigger to about 9 feet in 40+ feet of water. We were planning on fishing much deeper but hey, might as well fish where the fish are.
I no sooner sat down and Boom, another fish on!! I knew instantly that this was a better fish and he fought well. Once i got him to the boat though, Larrbo was up to the task and able to maliciously knock him off my line with his net. Thanks Larry!!
That fish was HUGE, the bright sunshine and super clear water, for Lake Almanor, gave us a real lasting view of that gorgeous Monster Rainbow Trout slowly swim away once he realized that he was no longer encumbered with my lure. Double darn! Maybe that fish wasn't quite as big as i thought or Larry didn't quite yet ever get close to the fish with the net but i'm telling this story so who you gonna believe?
So, two nice fish on and we've been no more than 10 minutes on the water. At times like this, a guy can't help but have visions of great days gone by where you could do no wrong. I'm looking at the stringer wondering how i'm gonna fit all the fish that we're going to catch on it. Maybe i should have released that dink little 18 incher, we're certainly going to really get into them today!
Little did i know at the time and who would have figured that it would take 4 more hours of my darn near throwing the whole tackle box at them to get our next, last, the final bite of the day. Larry's downrigger tripped off. He shut the boat down and grabbed his rod to a obvious fish. I snapped my line off my sides rigger and flipped the switch to bring the ball up. As i'm watching him play his fish, i'm winding in my line and i get a bite too! Awesome!!
to be continued...
We had just left his dock, 6:45 am nice dock right in front of his beautiful lakefront 2nd home, when i cast out my lure, you know, to get some line out way behind the boat before clipping it in the downrigger clamp. Before i can even get the line in the clamp, i can feel a fish pulling on the line that was now in my hand. I really can't hardly believe it, neither could Larry, but on winding in my slack, sure enough, i had on and then landed a nice scrappy 18" rainbow.
OK!! What a great way to start the day! After i had played out and then put the fish on the stringer, i cast out again. This time i was able to lower the line with the DR but we figured that being i caught the last fish on top, he must have been near it, so i only lowered the rigger to about 9 feet in 40+ feet of water. We were planning on fishing much deeper but hey, might as well fish where the fish are.
I no sooner sat down and Boom, another fish on!! I knew instantly that this was a better fish and he fought well. Once i got him to the boat though, Larrbo was up to the task and able to maliciously knock him off my line with his net. Thanks Larry!!
That fish was HUGE, the bright sunshine and super clear water, for Lake Almanor, gave us a real lasting view of that gorgeous Monster Rainbow Trout slowly swim away once he realized that he was no longer encumbered with my lure. Double darn! Maybe that fish wasn't quite as big as i thought or Larry didn't quite yet ever get close to the fish with the net but i'm telling this story so who you gonna believe?So, two nice fish on and we've been no more than 10 minutes on the water. At times like this, a guy can't help but have visions of great days gone by where you could do no wrong. I'm looking at the stringer wondering how i'm gonna fit all the fish that we're going to catch on it. Maybe i should have released that dink little 18 incher, we're certainly going to really get into them today!
Little did i know at the time and who would have figured that it would take 4 more hours of my darn near throwing the whole tackle box at them to get our next, last, the final bite of the day. Larry's downrigger tripped off. He shut the boat down and grabbed his rod to a obvious fish. I snapped my line off my sides rigger and flipped the switch to bring the ball up. As i'm watching him play his fish, i'm winding in my line and i get a bite too! Awesome!!
to be continued...
