1st Brown of 2024
Posted: Sat Feb 17, 2024 11:53 pm
Had the pleasure of fishing with AveJoe and Crawfish Saturday out of converse at 1st light. We got 4” of snow Friday evening and night in Fletcher so I left the plow on for good measure incase it was needed.
The Bloodline crew had launched just ahead of us. Great to see a sister boat out in winter conditions. Sounds like they had a banner day after picking up an hr or so ahead of us…
We headed across the lake in 34.5 deg surface water with no chop. We started with a laker right off then the salmon started to play in the snow… we ran long lines back 110+ with small sticks. Today the blue worked best.
Menu was corn dogs followed by marinated venison back strap closed out with a marinated pork loin. Even tough the wind picked up after noon we managed to get the 3 courses in between action… the bite was steady all day with the counter crossing double digits by 10am and 18 by the time we called it a day around 2pm.
Got lucky and landed a rare brown trout midday… square tail and big mouth gave away the hard fighter who dug down as usual..
Some of the smaller salmon we landed had 1-3 lamprey on them. We killed countless lamprey today, all small in size… there seems to be lots of them in the big bay….
The day wasn’t without miss haps. Somehow 2 heartland rods met their ends and one is on the bottom for someone to dredge up. Not sure what happened but after the wind picked up we are lucky that was all we lost…
Can’t wait till the next trip…
Fish on.
The Bloodline crew had launched just ahead of us. Great to see a sister boat out in winter conditions. Sounds like they had a banner day after picking up an hr or so ahead of us…
We headed across the lake in 34.5 deg surface water with no chop. We started with a laker right off then the salmon started to play in the snow… we ran long lines back 110+ with small sticks. Today the blue worked best.
Menu was corn dogs followed by marinated venison back strap closed out with a marinated pork loin. Even tough the wind picked up after noon we managed to get the 3 courses in between action… the bite was steady all day with the counter crossing double digits by 10am and 18 by the time we called it a day around 2pm.
Got lucky and landed a rare brown trout midday… square tail and big mouth gave away the hard fighter who dug down as usual..
Some of the smaller salmon we landed had 1-3 lamprey on them. We killed countless lamprey today, all small in size… there seems to be lots of them in the big bay….
The day wasn’t without miss haps. Somehow 2 heartland rods met their ends and one is on the bottom for someone to dredge up. Not sure what happened but after the wind picked up we are lucky that was all we lost…
Can’t wait till the next trip…
Fish on.