Heyburn

Finally got a chance to take the USS POS out this afternoon. The boat performed perfectly (thanks again Craig). When I got to the ramp I saw 1 trailer and thought sweet pretty much got the lake to myself. Unloaded and shot of across the lake to my favorite spot on the north end of the lake. As I got within eye shot of my destination wouldn't you know it the only other boat on the lake is sitting right on top of the brush I was headed for. As my disappointment was about to set in with one of those "well now what" moments I realized the other boat was a family with a little girl about my daughters age and she has a good one on the line and she's yelling for daddy's help. With some help from her dad she landed a 10 or 11 inch slab that she proclaimed was her biggest fish ever. My "well now what" was suddenly replaced with "That's freaking awesome" So I decided to troll around but stay close enough to see if she caught anymore. She caught a few more small ones and in the meantime I rolled across a brushpile I didn't know about right on the other side of the channel about 50yds away in almost the exact same depth so my fishing day proceeded. It was very slow for the first hour only catching a few now and then but my finder was saying the pile was packed with fish so I backed off of the pile and tied on a jig head with a spinner and put it about 6 feet under a bobber and started casting over the brush and slowly reeling it back. On my second or third cast my bobber slowly sank a couple of inches under the water and stayed in typical crappie fashion so I set the hook and the fight was on I had a monster it was giving my ultra light rod heck. When i turned its head and it surfaced I saw that dreaded black stripe down it's side before it dove again. I had about a 3 1/2lbs. large mouth on my 7'6" ultra light now that was fun. After I removed the trash fish from the area the crappie bite was on. As usual with Heyburn it was dinks o plenty with the occasional bigger fish in the mix. I fished 4 piles in 10 - 12 fow caught 19 over 10" with biggest being just shy of 13".
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Originally Posted by dinobot

Finally got a chance to take the USS POS out this afternoon. The boat performed perfectly (thanks again Craig). When I got to the ramp I saw 1 trailer and thought sweet pretty much got the lake to myself. Unloaded and shot of across the lake to my favorite spot on the north end of the lake. As I got within eye shot of my destination wouldn't you know it the only other boat on the lake is sitting right on top of the brush I was headed for. As my disappointment was about to set in with one of those "well now what" moments I realized the other boat was a family with a little girl about my daughters age and she has a good one on the line and she's yelling for daddy's help. With some help from her dad she landed a 10 or 11 inch slab that she proclaimed was her biggest fish ever. My "well now what" was suddenly replaced with "That's freaking awesome" So I decided to troll around but stay close enough to see if she caught anymore. She caught a few more small ones and in the meantime I rolled across a brushpile I didn't know about right on the other side of the channel about 50yds away in almost the exact same depth so my fishing day proceeded. It was very slow for the first hour only catching a few now and then but my finder was saying the pile was packed with fish so I backed off of the pile and tied on a jig head with a spinner and put it about 6 feet under a bobber and started casting over the brush and slowly reeling it back. On my second or third cast my bobber slowly sank a couple of inches under the water and stayed in typical crappie fashion so I set the hook and the fight was on I had a monster it was giving my ultra light rod heck. When i turned its head and it surfaced I saw that dreaded black stripe down it's side before it dove again. I had about a 3 1/2lbs. large mouth on my 7'6" ultra light now that was fun. After I removed the trash fish from the area the crappie bite was on. As usual with Heyburn it was dinks o plenty with the occasional bigger fish in the mix. I fished 4 piles in 10 - 12 fow caught 19 over 10" with biggest being just shy of 13".
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Awesome! Thanks for the report.

Really love the part about the little girl catching and hollering for her Daddy! Great job Scott!

Dino, you are a consistent fun read. I'm glad that Craig bequeathed the USS. Piece of Sparkles to such a good home tho I think he is still grieving over the transaction- grounded like he is. Pretty fish and Fishers finally has some hand model competition- nice job.

Hey dino you go past the fork into Browns or Tiger?

I fish around the fork but don't ever go very far up either creek. Never found any deep water back there.

Hung one on the left fork in the first cove on the left he would have went close to 4 # but my son had taken my dipet out ofg boat tried to lip him and lost him.

I hear that's a good spot

The whole lake looked like chocolate milk today. Sonar couldn't read anything but bottom. Only managed 6 and 2 of those were short.

Well the little one wanted to do laps around the lake today so we took the boat out but it was a "dad you're not fishing" day. I talked her into a short snack break in which time I managed these.

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