#37763, "RE: Lafayette 9/16/07 (late)" In response to In response to 0
>Hey Guys, > >I had a couple of friends from work think they could beat me >and Mike at a little bass fishing at their local reservoir. I >have fished off shore a couple times at Lafayette but never in >my kickboat here's the day. > >Launch was a little rough we had to walk our boats and gear to >the lake just over 100 yards slightly down hill. Water temp >69-71 through out the day air temp was 62 in the morning and >got up to the low 80's by 2pm. It was cloudy most of the >morning so it made it nice. I started with the Slammer (one of >my favorite baits) third cast I caught a 4lb 13ozer, I was >throwing to the tullies and working it out. > >Lafayette is a little werid you have the shore then tullies >with the tullies already in 5 - 10 feet of water, 4 - 5 feet >from there you have a weed line, then it drops to 15 - 20 >feet. > >I worked the slammer for 20 more minutes with no love. I >decided I need to learn some more about the dreaded spinner >bait, in the past 3 years I've thrown a spinner bait and only >caught 2 fish. That would change today, usually I would throw >parallel to weed line but my slammer fish came perpendicular >to the tullies and that would be the ticket, in the next >couple hours I would get a fish every 10 - 15 casts and so was >Mike. I never picked up another rod that day. > >My best five went 16lbs 5oz and Mike did not keep track but he >did get one over 5lbs. My buddies from work got skunked other >then a 4lb catfish, their prespective on what we do has >changed and now they understand why it is called fishing and >not catching. > >It was a awesome day even though it was a little expensive to >get in and a little hard to launch I would do it again. Even >my son wants to go again as you can see in the picture he >caught a lot of Z's. > > > >http://www.calfishing.com/dc/user_files/6208-scan0003.jpg > > >http://www.calfishing.com/dc/user_files/6209-scan0004.jpg > > >http://www.calfishing.com/dc/user_files/6211-scan0005.jpg >
video me at laff res http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLx3yU83QhQ