The Lake Saga continues………….
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Lando,
Little something I learned about stillwater fishing the other day, thought I would share it with you.
I was sitting at home thinking about the next days fishing trip and watching the news and the weather man in talking about the “southerly flow changing to a northerly flow tomorrow.” So I show up at the drink after school and the old-timer that has been fishing all day has caught a fish and lost one. He tells me that he is getting tired of casting into the southern wind and packs up and goes home. About a half an hour later the wind stops and is calm for about an hour. Then the wind starts to come from the north. About five minutes after the wind changes I get my first strike on a slow twitched beaver leach. Next cast land a good brown. Then on for the next two and a half hours until dark I caught six more really good fish (you know what I’m talking about). Not to mention losing several, two that straightened my hook.
I don’t know if it was the wind direction change or a change in the barometer but whatever happened it made it the best day I’ve ever had on those ponds. My feeling is that it was because of the wind change. The food that had stacked up on the north end of the pond all day was being blown back across the pond and started a feeding frenzy. All I know is in the future when I hear the weather man say the flow will change I will try to be at the pond the next day.
I caught six more really good fish (you know what I’m talking about). Not to mention losing several, two that straightened my hook.
.For Bill, a really good fish is close to 10 lbs.
Dear Clint,
In reading your last post I must say that you might possibly be the single most honest fisherman I know.
Neal
Lando can attest to the fact that I am pretty good at estimating my measurement. Then all of my rods get marked with fingernail polish at the 20″ mark, and my 8 wt. at both 20″ and 30″ mark (never reached 30 yet). Since I have been fishing these ponds (public I might add) I have begun carrying a flexible (seamstress) tape to get acurrate length and girth measurement.
That reminds me. I lost my formula for calulating fish weight. Does anyone have one for trout?
Weight = (Length x Girth x Girth)/800
or
http://www.cvff.org/weight.html
BTW-those fish were 3.5 and 3.7 lbs.
Thanks dude…
But I think your a little high on the weight. There is nothing inside of the fish that I have been catching. They are just like big balloons.
Unfortunately the those ponds close this weekend. So it is back to whities for me.
Come on Lando, you know about my love for “rocky mountain bone.”
Like I said, after this weekend, they will be my main pursuit. Now if I lived in the land of trout (Colorado) I would probably be stuck chasing trout all the time. However, you have to fish for what is availible to you and that is the mighty whitie where I live.
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