I remember the first week fishing this lake I got skunked, eventually I found some useful methods to produce fish. Its been a while since I've fished one of my favorite lakes and it was hard work, the first half of the trip seemed promising with a few early hits but once I got them to the boat they were little dinks only 6", total of 3 of them, released them all, it was looking like it was going to be a fail of a trip, I lost my lucky rooster tail on the east side of the lake on one of those sunken Rope/Pole things, there are 3 of them spread out and they are submerged just underneath the surface of the water. I wasn't to happy and neither were the other guys fishing at the lake, they jetted off after a couple of hours. I was going to go Aggro on Lake Ballinger due to the Wind knocking me around, losing lures, and some how my spoon hooked it self and I had to take it of the ring to unhook it from itself...wtf (no wonder I didnt get any bites).Once I got my poles set up, I was able to hook into a keeper, about 8", caught on a bullet sinker/bead/swivel with a tiny Silver Kastmaster, he put up such a fight. The last fish I caught on a egg sinker/bead/swivel (a little heavier than the bullet weight) with a medium size silver spoon, It was a decent size Trout he put up one hell of a fight he got airborne at least 5-6 times, but once I landed him I had that good feeling again, the one I remember from so long ago and the reason this is one of my favorite lakes. Sadly trolling on the way back to the launch, I snagged something on the bottom and lost the entire spoon rig. It was a strange day 3 trout released 2 to take home.

-2 Lures (arggg)

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