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Topic subjectTough Day @ DVL 1-19
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12157, Tough Day @ DVL 1-19
Posted by Team Striper, Tue Jan-20-04 09:59 AM
Karl (Okiebug) & I spent another day working DVL for very few bites. We trolled the swimbaits for hrs. with only 2 or 3 short bites & a couple lg. mouth despite some very impressive meter marks? We started switching lures every 20 minutes or so until we had tried just about everything in both our boxes. By the end of the day we were screwing around with each other pretty hard so I didn't believe him at first when he picked up his rod with a 3" Sea Wolf colored Hammer tossed it out to the side of our pattern, let it sink out for a few seconds and yelled I'M ON!! I had to look up at his rod tip to see the bounce before I slowed down the boat & started bringing in the other lines. It was another nice 3 lb. class fish lip hooked with the trailer so we decided to attempt a release without putting the fish in a net. The trout ended up releasing it's self before we could get a photo, oops. We switched everything back to Hammer's but only had an hr. left to work for 1 more short bite.

We spent very little time on the bass, which may have been a mistake because it didn't take long to get my first LMB of the year on wood:

http://www.momentoffame.com/snapshot.html?id=67293

Josh