New to I-Fish
Hello All. I've been reading I-Fish for quite some time now. Great place to find various info and opinions. I know that newbies are expected to tell a tale to start with. I'll start out with one from Crane Prairie Reservoir. It was fall and I was out fishing alone that morning. For a big fish day (trout) it was one of the best I have had. Well I was very disapointed catching one of my fish. It was a 3.5lbs brookie. Most of you wouldn't be disapointed with that, but if anyone could of seen what I saw, you'd probably feel the same way. I was fishing out of a small raft with an electric trolling motor. I had worked way back into the trees and was scouting for fish. All of the sudden, I saw all these little white spots on the bottom moving around. Taking a double take, I realized that it was a school of brookies. These weren't just your everyday brookies either. They were huge. All of them were in an area locked by logs floating on the surface, and know way to get the raft any closer. Well I decided to just hook up, and worry about how I was going to land the fish later. I thru out my bait, good ol worm and mellow. Immediately they started showing interest. There must of been 20 fish atleast. Some big and some really big. They casually surveyed the bait. The biggest started making these oval passes to check it out, getting closer on every circle. Man was I pumped. It was all I could do from jumping in and just grabbing. It was a great lesson on how those fish were checking out the bait. Give it a twitch and they would back off, but get more aggressive when they came back. This went on for a couple of minutes, then all of the sudden, the biggest fish turned and went straight at the bait. Just before it got to the offering, one of the smallest in the group charged right at the bait kind of pushing the big one out of the way. Bamm! He picked it up and the fight was on. Now I had to get the fish out of the logs. The fish kind of turned in my direction, so right then I just started reeling like mad, lifted my pole way up, steered the fish toward the surface, and just yanked the fish over the logs. He didn't know what hit him. All of the time, I was swearing to my self, that darn small fish anyway. Once I had the fish in water I could fight him in, it was a matter of getting him under control and in the net. After landing the fish I realized this was by far my largest brookie I had landed, and silly me I didn't want it because it was the small one of the bunch. That ended up being my small fish of the day, with the largest being a 7 lb rainbow. But that little brookie was by far the funnest of them all.
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jr sherwood
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