Comments - Cracking the code on Pratt Lake - Bluegill - Big Bluegill
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20170801~ after an amazing da…
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2018-03-25T22:46:33.925Z
Slip Sinker
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: inherit; font-size: 15.2727px; xg-p: static !important; min-height: 1em; color: #000000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #e9eee8; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><b style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"><i style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; xg-p: static !important; line-height: 19.1667px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">20170801~ after an amazing day on the water tagging a trophy B.Gill I decide to hit that spot again… this time my wife Jeri wants to tag along but wants to LMB fish with heavier equipment… Fishermen can be the most stubborn people!. A 10” plus B.Gill is small potatoes to her and a 16” LMB is ‘What she’s talking about”. LOL</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: inherit; font-size: 15.2727px; xg-p: static !important; min-height: 1em; color: #000000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #e9eee8; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><b style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"><i style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; xg-p: static !important; line-height: 19.1667px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">So we set out onto the lake and launch at the DNR site and head out to the spot just yards in and we make one of the Minor Solunar upswings for the day.</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: inherit; font-size: 15.2727px; xg-p: static !important; min-height: 1em; color: #000000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #e9eee8; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><b style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"><i style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; xg-p: static !important; line-height: 19.1667px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">I spot schools of fish in the vicinity<span> </span><span style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"> </span>and start vertically jigging them … my wife laughs at me for the small 5-7” fish I’m tagging. I pull out the Long-Casting/.016 oz Jig/Pink Waxie set-up and start fan casting the area. I set the hook into a brick wall that starts taking off like a freight train. I joke with my wife thinking it’s a LMB by the fight “she should start fishing small”. As the fight progresses to the boat the fish takes out some drag and does the B.Gill circle down deep. I then knew it was a Lepomis… my heart pounds as I brought it to the net… it was substantial in body mass.. 11” easy I thought.</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: inherit; font-size: 15.2727px; xg-p: static !important; min-height: 1em; color: #000000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #e9eee8; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><b style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"><i style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; xg-p: static !important; line-height: 19.1667px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">The fish stretches the scale to 10”… fooling me by its sheer weight and mass. I release the fish quickly after quickly photographing her… my wife is not impressed. She continues to LMB fish! Eventually she succumbs to the Long-Casting rigs but does not tag a fish</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: inherit; font-size: 15.2727px; xg-p: static !important; min-height: 1em; color: #000000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #e9eee8; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><b style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"><i style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; xg-p: static !important; line-height: 19.1667px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">What a day! What a trip!... just this morning I post…</span></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: inherit; font-size: 15.2727px; xg-p: static !important; min-height: 1em; color: #000000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #e9eee8; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><b style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"><i style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; xg-p: static !important; line-height: 19.1667px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">…<a href="http://bigbluegill.ning.com/photo/0731171342-master-angler-10-3-b-gill?context=latest#!/photo/20170801-cracked-the-code-of-the-new-lake-2-master-angler-b-gills?context=latest" style="text-decoration: underline; color: #000066; font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"><img alt="20170801~cracked the code of the “New Lake” (2) Master Angler B.Gills in two consecutive days!" class="auto-style1" height="600" src="http://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/2117838276?profile=RESIZE_1024x1024" style="border: 0px none; font-size: 1em; max-width: 614px; xg-p: static !important; height: auto;" width="684"/></a></span></i></b></p>
2010731~had an incredible tim…
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2018-03-25T22:44:59.626Z
Slip Sinker
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: inherit; font-size: 15.2727px; xg-p: static !important; min-height: 1em; color: #000000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #e9eee8; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><b style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"><i style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; xg-p: static !important; line-height: 19.1667px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">2010731~had an incredible time exploring and fishing the new lake on my list.</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: inherit; font-size: 15.2727px; xg-p: static !important; min-height: 1em; color: #000000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #e9eee8; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><b style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"><i style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; xg-p: static !important; line-height: 19.1667px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Spent a lot of time fishing deep schools of fish in 16-18 FOW… many of these fish were B.Gills in the 5-7” range… about 40 fish worth. But it was worth fishing these schools because I came up with (5) 90% + Certificate fish… one Master Angler over 10” at the 10.25” mark. Very thick shouldered fish with a lot of fight.</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: inherit; font-size: 15.2727px; xg-p: static !important; min-height: 1em; color: #000000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #e9eee8; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><b style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"><i style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; xg-p: static !important; line-height: 19.1667px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Largest fish was tagged Long-Casting/.016 oz Jig/Chartreuse Waxie. Many more were tagged vertically jigging the schools.</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: inherit; font-size: 15.2727px; xg-p: static !important; min-height: 1em; color: #000000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #e9eee8; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><b style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"><i style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; xg-p: static !important; line-height: 19.1667px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">I was pretty satisfied with today’s outing because several factors came into play that eventually allowed me to find and land these fish. First of all my very detailed contour map showing deep weed beds and bottom composition layers allowing me to see these areas of transition. Then fishing the<span> </span><a href="http://bigbluegill.ning.com/group/pattern-rigging-presentation-for-bluegill/forum/topics/fishing-the-thermocline-break" style="text-decoration: underline; color: #000066; font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;">thermocline break</a><span> </span>that essentially concentrates fish in these areas. Intersecting thermocline break with slow gradient contour transitions concentrated them even further.</span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0px 0px 0.5em; padding: 0px; line-height: inherit; font-size: 15.2727px; xg-p: static !important; min-height: 1em; color: #000000; font-family: Times, 'Times New Roman', Georgia, serif; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: #e9eee8; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;"><b style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"><i style="font-size: 1em; xg-p: static !important;"><span style="font-size: 12.5pt; xg-p: static !important; line-height: 19.1667px; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS';">Very satisfying when the plan comes together and results in a trophy specimen</span></i></b></p>
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