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122619 Foggy morning tailwater trip. WB
Gary Fomby, the biology teacher at Central High School, went with me on a tailwater trip hoping for Walleyes more than Rockfish and it was so foggy that we had to idle up to the dam using our GPS on the graph.
On the first drift right at daylight, a nice walleye inhaled my bass assassin 5” saltwater chartreuse fluke like swimbait and we put it in the live well.
Second drift yielded a small rockfish and then an undersized walleye. Third drift, Gary and I had a double of rockfish. We released all rockfish today, although my wife Wanda chided me for not bringing them home. She doesn’t like releasing fish unless it is into the livewell. Lolol.
Afterward, we hooked another walleye and had it pull off as we were trying to net it. It was a keeper size. Then we got company from a couple of boats and instead of running around the fish, getting above them and drifting through them, they ran right through the middle of the fish and when you do that, it spooks the rockfish and the bite slowed down to a standstill nearly.
We did land 8 rockfish, 4 White bass, and the three Walleyes. About 20 minutes before we quit fishing at 9:30, I hooked a train of a rockfish that pull my 20 lb braid down to the backing before it stopped running. A couple of violent head shake and another short run and it came unplugged. Sure would have love to see that one.
50.3 water temp and 47,000 cfs water flow. Lots of boats started showing up and that is my cue to put my boat on trailer. The parking lot was full when we got back to the ramp.
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