Post by Greenedog on Apr 1, 2012 20:12:19 GMT -5
Chase and me got up bright and early this morning for the trout opener only to be greeted by thunderstorms moving in. Nice job again local weather people! 
Anyhow....we waited til around noon and it looked like the storms had passed so we went over to the Island Pit. There was quite a few already there, but we were able to stake a small claim of shoreline to fish. The bite was a little slow at first with winds out of the east, but it moved to a southerly wind and the bite picked up a bit. It looked like pretty much everyone was getting there limits or close to it. It took us about 3 hours with the hot bait being a 1/32oz rooster tail in yellow. We also caught a few on a orange rooster tail and 1 or 2 on a nightcrawler. There was some young fellas next to us catching some nice ones on orange salmon eggs fishing the bottom out in the deep. Spainy79 showed up when we needed 1 more fish for our limits. He had a couple hits before we left.
It was so cloudy when we went that I forgot the sunscreen and we got burnt up pretty good.
Oh.....and if Chase could have connected on HALF his hits we could have limited in HALF the time!
We shot some video but I haven't even looked at it yet. It's so crazy getting these things in on ultralights that it's hard to video at the same time.
They were running bigger this year...all around 11-12 inches.
Anyhow....we waited til around noon and it looked like the storms had passed so we went over to the Island Pit. There was quite a few already there, but we were able to stake a small claim of shoreline to fish. The bite was a little slow at first with winds out of the east, but it moved to a southerly wind and the bite picked up a bit. It looked like pretty much everyone was getting there limits or close to it. It took us about 3 hours with the hot bait being a 1/32oz rooster tail in yellow. We also caught a few on a orange rooster tail and 1 or 2 on a nightcrawler. There was some young fellas next to us catching some nice ones on orange salmon eggs fishing the bottom out in the deep. Spainy79 showed up when we needed 1 more fish for our limits. He had a couple hits before we left. It was so cloudy when we went that I forgot the sunscreen and we got burnt up pretty good.
Oh.....and if Chase could have connected on HALF his hits we could have limited in HALF the time!
We shot some video but I haven't even looked at it yet. It's so crazy getting these things in on ultralights that it's hard to video at the same time.They were running bigger this year...all around 11-12 inches.
Chase caught a big ol' painted turtle out there(on video.) 
Just another night at work for me and Monty will be back here again bright and early. 
