Today was our hottest day of fishing!! Now, when I say that I don't mean that the fishing was hot...it was 99 F out on the water...it was HOT!!!
But we did catch 4 keepers...I caught a couple of Walleye, including my personal best of 2.6 lbs 20"...and Dale caught a couple of Largemouth Bass, including his personal best of 3 lbs 17"...
Not a bad day...
You didn't hear it from me, but we had actually headed out to test out our salmon gear. We had bought these things called Dipsy Divers that are supposed to take your lure down to some pretty deep depths...but ours wouldn't dive and just stayed on top of the water (we later found out from the kid at the tackle shop that we had rigged them up backwards...no wonder they wouldn't dive!)
When we couldn't get the Dipsy Divers to dive, we switched to the downriggers...And wouldn't you know it?? After not being used for a year, we just assumed that things would work just like they always have after sitting for a while...but...Dale's rigger has no power (now we have to check to see if it's the plug, or the rigger itself) and my readout went dead (we knew that they would eventually need to be replaced, but there was no telling when the displays would die...they're about 7 years old now...so I guess it's time)...the problem is that the display (which tells how deep the lure is (and that's kind of important to know)) is a sealed unit and I don't know where to get another display...oh boy!! More research!! So when none of our salmon gear would work for us, we decided to just drag some lures around and that's when we caught the Bass and Walleye...
All in all, it was a good day out on the water, but It was really hot!! It's supposed to be up to 107F over the next few days, so I think we'll probably be hibernating in the a/c....
I also caught my personal best human...5' 5 1/2" 225 lbs...as I was climbing out of the boat, I snagged my shirt sleeve on a lure...a big lure about 5 inches long...I had to detach it from the rod and wear my "badge of honor" as I walked to get the truck and trailer to pull the boat home, where I could change shirts...I hope I don't repeat that one...or at least if I do, I hope that the lure matches my shirt so it's not so obvious what I've done...lol
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