Fishing Report 3-24-06

Steve Kelly and I made it up to LBC to try out the Walker Strikevision camera unit and see if we could get a little underwater footage. Unfortunately, the unit was a display model that we had used at the outdoor shows this winter and had some problems. Needless to say, we didn't get any footage at all. To make matters worse, my remote steering finally blow the cable and we had to make an on the water repair and it is difficult at best. They are fairly simple if you are in the parking lot behind the boat but laying on a dock and hanging over the water, is not my first choice.

When we finally got back out on the lake to fish it was 2:30 in the afternoon and we didn't get out all that early in the morning, so it was a shorter day than we expected. Luckily we made up for it with some quality bulls that afternoon. I use "we" loosely, as Kelly stuck all 3 bulls including a 5.5 Lb. hen and a male and female that both weighed right under 10 Lb. I had one good strike and settled for "net boy" for Steve.

The bulls had migrated some from where they had been for the last two weeks but were in the same general area. This has been an unusual year with the fish not responding that well to plugs for us and also coming from the 50-70 foot range instead of the usual "island shoreline drill" that everybody and his brother is used too. That may come into plat later. We are just glad to be able to locate them for now.

Tight Lines, Rick