Went Fishing. Have a Sunburn. Caught Logs. 🪵
Spent at least 5 hours stalking carp, casting and spooking and getting denied. Studied the whole area and finally found some muddied up water that wasn’t from me spooking a fish for a change. I casted in, and boom. Head turns, and it takes me directly into the flooded debris and spits it.
But here in Lake Hour 5.5 I was finally getting some action. It was a small prince dropped below a white balanced leech. Casted again and another eat, this time I fought it for 5 minutes before also getting wrapped around the tree.
I hooked a third fish here in fifteen minutes and it came to this log on the opposite side just to once again wrap me around it and spit the hook.
I hooked into one other fish this day. I was poling through some of those logs and found a deep clean pocket of water. I casted into it when approaching and let it sink >6 feet down. While briefly looking away to secure myself to some timber and prevent further drift, a fish had moved in. I looked back to see a fish in the pool, gave my line a wiggle trying to entice a strike to find it had already eaten.
I got the fish to the reel, and watched him sternly move away from me, tug me 50 yards, and spit it while in the shallow debris again.
I learned a-lot, and will have my heavier rod back this week. I was hesitant to pull in fear of breaking gear. I would have preferred to had the 6wt for these fish but was casting a 5 and that felt under powered + fearful of breaking tippet. I have an 8wt but had it was rigged for drifting a baitfish in the channels to search for walleye.
Posted by Painfreeoutdoors