anonymoose
Well-Known Member
Decided to make a late run for Burwell after work. Launched just after 5:30 and ran to 58FOW.
Got 3 lines wet before they found each other
and lost the first fish in the process. Reeling in a triple dipsey tangle with a walleye attached is the kind of fun only team @anonymoose can drum up! Got all the gear aboard (less the fish, of course) and started hacking. A few minutes later we were moving again, having only lost a few feet of braid. Saved the leaders, even though they looked like slinkys at this point and put them back down. It turns out that migrating dipsey weight combined with our patented zigzag trolling technique were likely the culprit.
Getting close to sundown we decided to pull the plug. "Phew" I thought, thinking that I'd finally made it out without having to chase down (or be chased down by) a missing planer board. No sooner had the thought crossed my mind when SNAP went one of the lines. Must have caught on one of the dipsey rods during a particularly tight zigzag maneuver. Scooped it up and wrapped the line around a bucket to be retied for the 20th time.
Before someone asks, the patented zigzag trolling technique is not intentional. I need to get a brick to tie to the steering wheel as it would do a better job than me at keeping the boat moving in somewhat of a straight line.
Threw back a few smalls and lost more than we boated, including a hard hitting rainbow (or similar fish that does the characteristic YANK YANK YANK YANK GONE technique that I'm so familiar with). Wound up bringing home 6 nice sized fish, which was as many as I cared to clean on a weeknight with an early duck scouting mission planned.
Didn't get out much this year. That might be the last hurrah for us this year as my attention turns to the sky and woods to fill the freezer!
-moose
Got 3 lines wet before they found each other
and lost the first fish in the process. Reeling in a triple dipsey tangle with a walleye attached is the kind of fun only team @anonymoose can drum up! Got all the gear aboard (less the fish, of course) and started hacking. A few minutes later we were moving again, having only lost a few feet of braid. Saved the leaders, even though they looked like slinkys at this point and put them back down. It turns out that migrating dipsey weight combined with our patented zigzag trolling technique were likely the culprit.Getting close to sundown we decided to pull the plug. "Phew" I thought, thinking that I'd finally made it out without having to chase down (or be chased down by) a missing planer board. No sooner had the thought crossed my mind when SNAP went one of the lines. Must have caught on one of the dipsey rods during a particularly tight zigzag maneuver. Scooped it up and wrapped the line around a bucket to be retied for the 20th time.
Before someone asks, the patented zigzag trolling technique is not intentional. I need to get a brick to tie to the steering wheel as it would do a better job than me at keeping the boat moving in somewhat of a straight line.
Threw back a few smalls and lost more than we boated, including a hard hitting rainbow (or similar fish that does the characteristic YANK YANK YANK YANK GONE technique that I'm so familiar with). Wound up bringing home 6 nice sized fish, which was as many as I cared to clean on a weeknight with an early duck scouting mission planned.
Didn't get out much this year. That might be the last hurrah for us this year as my attention turns to the sky and woods to fill the freezer!
-moose
