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After I finished up a honey-do painting project, I changed out the plugs on the kicker, and did a bit of tweeking on the lil guy after a few trips of less than ideal performance from it. It was getting up close to noon by now, but the weather was excellent, and the lake looked to be fairly calm. So off to the launch I headed. Motored up by the best western and dropped down a red wedding ring behind a Mack's flashLite. Tipped the hook with some shoe peg and a white crappie nibble, and let it down to 20' or so. Rigged the other rod with a 000 flasher and a flashy silver fly that I had just put together. Again corn and nibble. Was in 45' of water now, and marking fish. Picked up a couple of silvers in the 9" range, but not getting bit like I was expecting. I was noticing lots of disturbance on the fish finder right on the bottom, and thought it was just weeds, but I got to paying more attention, and it looked more like condensed fish. I had now changed out to a chartreuse wedding ring, and dropped this down to the bottom. Bang, there went the rod, and up came another silver. The ball had a bit of weeds on it, but it was non stop action right on the bottom. Seemed any thing would get bit if it was down with the weeds. Limited out in short order. The kicker did great for the short time I was there, so will have to try again soon, just to be sure. LOL Most fish were caught in 35-45 feet of water, and scattered throughout the column, but for me today, hugging the weeds was the ticket. Air temp 69-70* with a water temp of 57*. When I cleaned the lil buggers, their gut was packed with tiny black larvae of some sort. Cindy cooked up some of them for supper, and they sure were good. The silvers are small this year, but they are all over the lower lake. hope to see some of y'all out there yankin some in. Remember the sunscreen and plenty of fluids.

charlie h.

5/13/2011 7:26:00 AM

Loui
Nice catch , good to see you holding up fish .

Charlie h

MotoBoat

5/13/2011 12:54:00 PM

Once again, nice report Lewy! Not sure why, but those fish look longer in the picture than they are reported to be. Say, how did the homemade flashy silver fly work? You have a mighty serious look on your face. Like hunting for Kokanee is serious business...LOL! I know you have fun out there, and I am funnin which ya.

Jordan

5/13/2011 12:58:00 PM

Good goin' Blufin! that sure looks like a nice day! Weather and fish! SWEET!

blufin loui

5/13/2011 10:56:00 PM

Hi ya Charlie, it's good to be holding fish too.LOL Good to see ya on here. Take care and maybe we'll see ya again on the water soon

blufin loui

5/13/2011 11:05:00 PM

Hello MotoBoat, I did something I usually don't do. I long armed the lil buggers. That makes them look bigger for sure. The flashy fly worked pretty good. I used a segment of a wedding ring (tappered bodie) and had the small end for the back of the fly. I tied on some silver mylar tinsel and silver flashabou on each of the segments, then snelled on a couple of size 4 sickle hooks on about 30 inches of 8# floro, and ran the line through the body of the fly (sorta like a tube fly) then I put a Small Smily Blade in front of that and then a fishin we went. As far as the serious look, I had set the vid on a tripod and I was trying to see the screen to make sure I was in the shot. With the sun behing behind the camera, I was having to concentrate too hard. LOL Thanks for the comment man.

blufin loui

5/13/2011 11:06:00 PM

Hey Jordan, It was a fabulous day on the water, can't beat a combo of nice weather and fish willing to bite. Take care

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