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Who is scared of hypothermia? Not us, that's for sure!

One day after nearly being rained to death, JonB and I head back to Bosworth. This is the last weekend it's open, after all.

We're not going to have a repeat of yesterday though. JonB gets in the raft dressed in full chest waders, a rain jacket, and with an umbrella haha. I dont have the gear, so I get in the raft with hip waders, 2 extra layers of clothes, and that umbrella is a great idea and thankfully I have on in the car!

We're catching fish, having a good time, for the first time ever I'm winning with first fish (rainbow) and second fish (kokanee), and then I'm up 3 to 1, and then I get just annihilated. It was weird. I couldn't buy a bite for ages. Anyway, again, not that long after we start, it starts to rain. And it rains, and rains, and then rains a torrential downpour! Someone else at the lake, seems like they said they were members of this forum, we look around at the first really hard rain (were 2 really hard rains, rest just steady) and they're gone. But, I'm sure to the delight and amusement of all the homeowners on the lake, both of us have our umbrellas out, right out in the middle of the lake, haha. So we keep fishing.

Thankfully we had yesterday's lesson to insulate us today, as today was probably 10 degrees colder. Chilly on hands and feet and what not, where yesterday not really cold. So we keep heading toward the limit. Throwing back the really ugly, parasitized ones. Used a few different methods, mostly trolling hardware. I wasted some time with worm on bottom of lake, as the returns on the fish finder were mostly at the bottom, and at about 20-25 feet down. As usual, zero bites on the bottom. Much different from Saturday, when almost all returns in top 10 feet of water.

By the time we were done, the shivers and just set in, despite our much better preparation. It was pretty cold today, especially with 4 hours of rain just like yesterday. But in the end we got our limits, and then just as we were pulling the raft out - HAHAHA it stops raining and the sun comes out.

So we went and checked out Bitter Lake in north Seattle, but really too late to reinflate the raft and too much wind anyway, and then we ended up down at Green Lake and got some decent action there. JonB caught a perch and a bass and didn't land a trout haha. I was about to lift a trout onto the dock, and it shook itself free, AND I WAS LEFT WITH ITS EYEBALL ON THE HOOK!!!! Oh my gross. The stockers in Greenlake are very soft. I had to keep another one which I would have released but its eyeball was sticking half way out of the socket too. JonB managed to lose a couple of lures, and break his pole heh. That's what he gets for using a $15 Wal-Mart special and cheap garbage line that someone gave him!

Long story short, caught limits in Bosworth, didn't get hypothermia this time, and explored other potential fishing. Was a good day overall.

N E 1 FISSION

10/27/2014 8:31:00 AM

Entertaining story, I gave him the "cheap garbage line" Berkley Trilene & Izorline, he needed it at Green Lake so I gave him what I had, I use these for my leaders, but will let you have trhat seeing you got soaked!!

whorde

10/27/2014 9:56:00 AM

Wasn't taking a shot at you, mainly taking a shot at him for not replacing the line he'd been complaining about the day before. We were pulling wedding rings and the amount of tangle on both of our light poles was borderline unbearable. It was winding up every 5 feet or so and refusing to unwind heh. So I bought fancy line saturday night and fixed the problem. JonB didn't. And another part of the problem is the type of knot which JonB ties. I'm not sure it's actually breaking line that's the problem - I think a lot of his knots pull out. Same as my clinch knots - I always tie a little knot in the tail so that it can't pull back through. JonB doesn't tie that little safety from what I can tell. Regardless, in 90 minutes at Greenlake he lost a lure on a tree and 2 more when fish hit them, so he was hot and bothered to say the least, and me talking trash the entire time probably made that worse hoho.

strider43

10/27/2014 1:07:00 PM

Great report and its to hear of diehards out there catching fish...

kickerboat

10/27/2014 7:26:00 PM

Ha...when I was commercial fishing they always said it was bad luck to bring an umbrella or a suitcase on board.. I think you guys debunked that one, for the umbrella at least.

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