MrWiskers, Chick, Bassin on Top, 6-28-2009, Polo

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MrWiskers

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Polo called my yesterday and invited me to chase schoolers with him today. Thought about sleeping in but glad I got out. We started the day at 6AMon Polo's schooler spot and right off the bat he catches two on a4" worm. As the light got up the fish started schooling all around us. Once again Polo boated 2-3 while all I could do was watch. Took mea couple of times before I got the hang of it but I did finally settle in and started catching some. The fish would make a very small ripple, not busting like you normally see. Polo was throwing a chug bug and I had on a Sammy. You had about 3-5 seconds to get the bait on top of the boil. If you were late they would not touch. Some fish would hit the baits as soon as they hit the water. Fish would slap the bait up in the air 2 feet or they would just jump clear over the bait. The bite lasted until about 7:30 so for 1.5 hours of effort we boated 22 bass and one white. All fish were LM except for one smallie and one little spot plus I got a white bass on a crank. Most fish were in the 12-14" range but we did have a couple of small keepers. Fun, fun, fun. I think Polo had me 2 to 1 on numbers. </p>

We left there and hit a few ledges looking for more fish. Ended up catching one more bass on a drop shot finese worm that turned out to the be big fish of the day right at 3.5 lbs. Fish would have weighted more but was very skinny.</p>

We ended the day on a dock that I was told "always" has crappie on it.emoPoke Notta. I did stick a keeper size LM that wraped me up in a brush pile on a drop shot. We trolled over and could see the fish. As we tried to get it free it got off. </p>

While we were fishing one of the mid river tri-pods a boat literally drove over our lines and ramed the posts, knocking some of the branches out of the osprey nest. We were sitting no more than 25 feet from the posts, casting to them. Unreal. I thought for sure they were going to knock the nest down and sort of thought they were going to knock the tri-pods down. They said they were going to crappie fish. There are some really dumb people in the world with NO common sense. You might recoginze them from the picture below. We left it to them as they spooked off anything that might have been there. </p>

Great morning to be on the water. Thanks for the ride Polo, it was a blast.</p>
 

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WTG Guys... those are some good looking fish there emoThumbsup emoTongue

Maybe those DA's were trying to knock mayflies off those tripods emoScratch emoGoofy Funny how, even though that lake has 35,000 sq. acres that someone can't find a place to fish on a Sunday morning away from another boat emoEnforce
 
Those fellers in that Skeeter look awfully familiar. Just can't quite place a name to go with those ugly mugs. emoPoke emoBigsmile emoGeezer
 
As always, it was great to be out on the water with you Wiskers! Those guys really looked familiar to me too but I just decided to let them have the spot as they really wanted it. I really liked the colorful top on the guy in the back of the boat. That topwater bite is such a "blast"!
 
Nice job guys! And WTH?.....they actually hit the post when they pulled up? I hope you gave them a good round of applause! Sometimes you just have to laugh(to keep from becoming a homicidal maniac!) emoGoofy
 
Fish Hunter - 6/28/2009 5:06 PM Nice job guys! And WTH?.....they actually hit the post when they pulled up? I hope you gave them a good round of applause! Sometimes you just have to laugh(to keep from becoming a homicidal maniac!) emoGoofy
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Yep they t-boned it good. Probably doing 5 mph or so. The hole structure swayed about a foot or more and part of the nest fell in the water. I am sure the chicks were wondering what was happening. I have had some stupid people pull up on me in the past but these two took the prize. I think they actually ran over Polo's line. Unreal. </p>
 
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Fish Hunter - 6/28/2009 5:06 PM Nice job guys! And WTH?.....they actually hit the post when they pulled up? I hope you gave them a good round of applause! Sometimes you just have to laugh(to keep from becoming a homicidal maniac!) emoGoofy
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Yep they t-boned it good. Probably doing 5 mph or so. The hole structure swayed about a foot or more and part of the nest fell in the water. I am sure the chicks were wondering what was happening. I have had some stupid people pull up on me in the past but these two took the prize. I think they actually ran over Polo's line. Unreal. </p>

emoRolleyes Yep....Unreal. The 5mph t-bone would have probably had me laughing hysterically instead of being mad! emoBigsmile
 
I had the same thing happen to me Sunday morning but nothing was actually hit they just got too close to me and slid in as soon as I moved over far enough! Must have been the only spot on the whole lake.
 
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