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Some of you know I just love to Fish Woods Canyon Lake so with some personal stormy weather under the bow last night I re-spooled my ultralights. Something I was scheduled to do last month before life got in the way. I woke up a 2:30 this morning and jumped in the shower then loaded my stuff in the truck and was down the road to QT for coffee by 2:42. I got to the lake at about 4:35. I fished by the spillway, the spillway, sun came up and some people came by and pushed out a few cow elk. The lake was like glass and the air temps were in the high 40's. I threw some rooster tails, mepps and a couple of castmasters but to no avail and fish were active. I moved closer to the boatramp to a place where I usually do really well but nothing and moved after a few hours. There were very few shore fisherman, almost nill and even fewer boats until after 9am. I moved back about halfway back up to the spillway at 9:30 and continued to throw everything in my tackle box at them. I finally had a couple of fish follow a mini-crawdad lure and was bumped but missed the hookset. Plenty of Bald Eagles and Ospreys around to pass the time. I decided to put some power eggs on on of the poles and put that out too while I fished lures from the bank. I was using crank baits too, some micros and some minnow lures too but nothing really until I tied on a trout colored castmaster. I missed the first bite but had a solid hookup a few casts later and managed to land it. After a picture it went into the fish basket a no sooner made another cast and hooked up again. While I was reeling it in the pole with the power eggs started dancing and I managed to irk out another fish, a rainbow. So happy to not get get skunked. I cleaned them and headed back at 1PM. A mile or so before Preachers Canyon traffic came to a standstill and it took 1 1/2 hours to get to Payson. No biggie but I didn't expect that. Once home I cleaned them the rest of the way after gutting them at the lake and cut off the fins, heads and scaled them. Now here is the unexpected part. The Tigers don't really have any scales and are as slimy as an eel. I have some Javi in the crok pot since yesterday so the trout went into the freezer for tomorrow. Both of the TT inhaled the treble hook.

It only seems to happen when bringing up the main page for me and not when I just go directly to teh forums.

Great way to get it done.

Prayers for you and your family.

To be honest you are most likely not going to find any limbs for an 11 yo bow. Bows are expensive but if you get one now he will have time to tune it and get used to it before the hunt. If you finds limbs down the road then you are golden but I wouldn't wait too long.

We're not alone.

Just gotta ask, where did you but that shag carpet from?

Thanks. There are plenty on the banks all dried up. If I was into Cichlids I would take a few home and add them to the tank but my native fishes tank has fish that are too small and would get eaten.

Tastes like a mix of beef and lamb.

Lambo driver was asleep at the wheel.

I think the record is about 20#. Hopefully they will eat all the bluegill in there. They are sterile and can't reproduce so from I read they are a hybrid between a Brook and Brown trout when one has 84 chromosomes and the other 80.

I always suspected Mr Ed.

I started noticing scores of 1" - 3" bluegill last year. Probably have to rotenone the lake in a few years.

Thanks

Just noticed it today. It is back to the old brown from the blue and white.

OOOOOOOOOOH.

Spoke to a guy this morning in a kayak and said he was catching them on micro crankbaits. Sure do like that they don't spit the hook but they sure are slimey things.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^ and how many years have you been married?

Should not have to take the bolt out. It probably has a solid piece in where the floorplate would be. That is what I did on a 700 action I used for Silhouette.

Cool, keep encouraging her.

https://www.hcn.org/articles/grizzlies-gain-ground

Heck of a deal.

I should respool my ultralight and head up tomorrow morning for a few hours.

Great footage and a reminder why non-residents need to hunt with a guide.

Well don't know all about that. I have only seen one of those today from a FB friend who is closing in on being a senior citizen, like myself. I like seeing it recongized, whether it be a tacky 5$ Bass Pro T Shirt or a pic of a family member from past generations. I myself didn't serve. I did enlist in 71 but the bastards singled me out on my induction day because I had psorarisis and booted me. We are fighting a war in the ME but it get no publicity, but it is going on everyfricken day. It's getting swept under the rug and the only thing that makes the headlines is the lack of care for the Vets who look for it from the VA. In the Vietnam War ( and yes it was a WAR) and during Desert Storm there was nightly news and afternoon new, just about round the clock. During Vietnam the news had the daily body count. Sometimes 5, sometimes 35, watched as a VC threw a grenade into a hughey on the 6 o'clock news that landed to pick up solders. One of my HS friends was in there, nicest guy in the school, Irish kid, State champion wrestler. wasn't even 20 yo's old. Can't imagine what his parents went through.