SpurHunter
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In our quest to get our own fishing show, WLG and I are on amission to catch monster flatheads by rod and reel, no more grabblin till next may. emoBigsmile </p>
Over the last month we have been running a few limb-lines to help us target areas that should be more productive than others. We decided we had learned enough to give it a good try Saturday night. Catfinger and I hit my little hole on Candies creek to catch bait, we got a good variety of bream and then I met Wade and his lil-bit Taylor at the ramp. We caught a few more bait-fish then set off to rig the lines up. We set 17 limbs with a good mix of large and small baits, then decided on a good looking spot to toss out our rods. Taylor was NOT buying my suggestion that she was the green-horn on this trip and needed to kiss emoHeart each baitfish for luck, something about she been catfishing longer than me she said. emoLaugh emoLaugh I tried anyways.
We tried a new technique by hanging suspended baits over the bottom by attaching to 3 leaders to flimsy limbs then to our rods with a snap-swivel and backing away from the bank. It was afire-drill to get all three rods done this way, but made it happen, and looked like a plan came together for us. emoApplause emoCrazy Wade had seen this method in In-Fisherman I believe. We then tossed out several rods around the area to really get good coverage. </p>
We would have had one more rod out, but Taylor was in charge of bait "watching" while I was netting them out of the tank and placing them into the big sink trying to get an accurate head-count. I told her make sure nothing got down the drain...that lasted about 30 seconds before a small bass slipped right on through, and she said, OOPS!! emoLaugh emoLaugh emoDoh emoDoh
I guess we got all this done by about 10 and we just chilled out, ate some BBQ, talked fishing and waited. By this time Taylor had long crashed out ice cold......I was really surprised when she asked me out of the blue, "Spur, your probably one of those whimpy little bass fisherman aint you?" emoEek I asked what made her think that, but no answer....she was out cold. Wade said she talks in her sleep like this all the time. Too funny I tell ya.
About 2:30, all of us asleep, we had a reel clicker pulling line, I jumped up, and went to reeling to get the fish out of the heavy cover, only to realize there was nothing on it. Got the bait in, no trauma either. We have no idea what could have caused the line to pull out like that, but blamed it on a bear. emoBigsmile emoGeezer
We woke up at 6, and started pulling all the rods in, no takers this night from this spot.
We started checking limb lines and all we ended up with were some big channel cats, two or three were over 9 lbs, which were MEAN fish. All we can figure is the full moon didn't help out cause? Dont know, but we are going to give it one more try before the cool weather gets here I hope.
Sorry no pics, after sleeping on the boat, you didn't want to see us anyways. </p>
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Over the last month we have been running a few limb-lines to help us target areas that should be more productive than others. We decided we had learned enough to give it a good try Saturday night. Catfinger and I hit my little hole on Candies creek to catch bait, we got a good variety of bream and then I met Wade and his lil-bit Taylor at the ramp. We caught a few more bait-fish then set off to rig the lines up. We set 17 limbs with a good mix of large and small baits, then decided on a good looking spot to toss out our rods. Taylor was NOT buying my suggestion that she was the green-horn on this trip and needed to kiss emoHeart each baitfish for luck, something about she been catfishing longer than me she said. emoLaugh emoLaugh I tried anyways.
We tried a new technique by hanging suspended baits over the bottom by attaching to 3 leaders to flimsy limbs then to our rods with a snap-swivel and backing away from the bank. It was afire-drill to get all three rods done this way, but made it happen, and looked like a plan came together for us. emoApplause emoCrazy Wade had seen this method in In-Fisherman I believe. We then tossed out several rods around the area to really get good coverage. </p>
We would have had one more rod out, but Taylor was in charge of bait "watching" while I was netting them out of the tank and placing them into the big sink trying to get an accurate head-count. I told her make sure nothing got down the drain...that lasted about 30 seconds before a small bass slipped right on through, and she said, OOPS!! emoLaugh emoLaugh emoDoh emoDoh
I guess we got all this done by about 10 and we just chilled out, ate some BBQ, talked fishing and waited. By this time Taylor had long crashed out ice cold......I was really surprised when she asked me out of the blue, "Spur, your probably one of those whimpy little bass fisherman aint you?" emoEek I asked what made her think that, but no answer....she was out cold. Wade said she talks in her sleep like this all the time. Too funny I tell ya.
About 2:30, all of us asleep, we had a reel clicker pulling line, I jumped up, and went to reeling to get the fish out of the heavy cover, only to realize there was nothing on it. Got the bait in, no trauma either. We have no idea what could have caused the line to pull out like that, but blamed it on a bear. emoBigsmile emoGeezer
We woke up at 6, and started pulling all the rods in, no takers this night from this spot.
We started checking limb lines and all we ended up with were some big channel cats, two or three were over 9 lbs, which were MEAN fish. All we can figure is the full moon didn't help out cause? Dont know, but we are going to give it one more try before the cool weather gets here I hope.
Sorry no pics, after sleeping on the boat, you didn't want to see us anyways. </p>
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