Post by Eugene on Nov 14, 2010 11:16:51 GMT -5
My buddy Scott took Karl and I out on Alum Creek in his boat yesterday evening. Scott doesn't eat fish, but Karl and I were thinking on putting a little meat in the cooler via saugeye (a fine and acceptable game meat, officially packaged by the state of Ohio in wild fish). Karl and I were trolling size 12 Deep Down Husky Jerks, me in gold with a blaze orange belly and Karl in glass perch.
Close to the end of our first pass along the rip rap, I set the hook on what felt to be a sizable fish, obviously NO saugeye. Played in and landed a fine and healthy muskie. Had no tape measure aboard, so laid it out along my rod to estimate and measure later. It proved to be around 42".
Within 20 minutes, on the return pass, set the hook again on an almost identical-feeling fish. Played in a second, near carbon copy of the first. Karl had left his rod and lure dangling in his rod holder over the side of the boat. As this second fish approached, it just happened to give a little lunge up out of the water and coincidentally took Karl's lure into its mouth as well! A little chaos followed, but the fish was pretty well played out by then and we did manage to land it without losing any lures or rods. This second was estimated around 40".
The whole proved to be one of the crappiest saugeye outings ever...but that's OK.
Close to the end of our first pass along the rip rap, I set the hook on what felt to be a sizable fish, obviously NO saugeye. Played in and landed a fine and healthy muskie. Had no tape measure aboard, so laid it out along my rod to estimate and measure later. It proved to be around 42".
Within 20 minutes, on the return pass, set the hook again on an almost identical-feeling fish. Played in a second, near carbon copy of the first. Karl had left his rod and lure dangling in his rod holder over the side of the boat. As this second fish approached, it just happened to give a little lunge up out of the water and coincidentally took Karl's lure into its mouth as well! A little chaos followed, but the fish was pretty well played out by then and we did manage to land it without losing any lures or rods. This second was estimated around 40".
The whole proved to be one of the crappiest saugeye outings ever...but that's OK.
