Boat Magnets and the like
We ventured forth unto the lake today to try our hand at fishing using the boat. For the record, I love to fish in the boat because we usually catch fish. Today's weather was against us following yesterday's amazing beautiful day.Do you think we could get such a wonderful day? Uh hello, it's me fishing. Nothing's going to go right. I woke up to it being overcast, windy and chilly. I'm glad I took a pair of sweats with me to wear, because I put them on before we ever got on the water. We put in, loaded up and off we went.
For us, our fishing in the boat consists of trolling. Trolling is where we literally drag diving lures behind the boat and hope fish bite them. Sounds stupid, but works great.
The lake we fish, we know pretty well. That's to say, we know the areas we like to fish. However, some of these areas are underwater (obviously) so we use landmarks on the shore to figure out their exact location. Therein lies the problem as one of our favorite areas we called the barn humps because you could line up three trees on the shore with an old barn and there the humps would be. Thanks to the passage of time, the growth of trees around the old barn and other mitigating factors, we have to search a little bit for the proper location.
Once we find the humps sometimes we through out a buoy or a marker. These markers are oftentimes made of plastic and have some type of string attatched to a large weight. Sometimes an old detergent bottle works, others are actually commercial in day-glo orange color. We call these markers boat magnets.
Why? They attract other boats. I'm serious. We threw one out last summer when we were marking the humps and all of the sudden TWO boats came across the lake to fish right where we were. The attraction power of a boat magnet is the stuff of legends. We've often talked about making decoy boat magnets and just throwing them out in the middle of the lake, in 20 feet of water with nothing around it but flat bottom. I bet the boats would flock to itlike flies do to fresh dog poop.
As for today, it was a good day on the water. We KEPT 14 white bass, 9 wipers and 4 walleyes. Not too bad for northwinds, overcast and cool weather.
posted by Rusty @ 8:02 PM
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