Kaploosh
Sunday, January 30th, 2022 | Author: admin
Hal and I started fishing in the Garhole this morning around 10:00 with water 46.4 degrees. I wanted to get a demonstration on how to fish with a drop shot and Hal does it a lot. On Lake Enterprise the drop shot showed me that it was harder than you would think. Hal started the demonstration quickly with a 4 1/4 in the first 15 minutes. His line could be seen twitching before he set the hook but he waited to make sure the fish had it before he just pulled up to set the hook. A DT-6 was calling me to throw it in some shallow water and finally caught a couple of small ones. The fish were really not just burning it up. We tried just drifting up to a top and dipping the rugby head in between the limbs but not a bite doing that all day. We arrived to a spot where last time I was there I caught one I did not suspect out in the middle of a cove where the water was 10 feet deep. The drop shot went in and I caught my first fish on one and even another. No more however. As we fished around the North side of the hole where the sun had been shining all day, a fish flashed at my DT-6 and when I paused it, flashed again, missing both times, and finally again where it got enough of the hooks to not want it again. It was obvious things already slow, were getting slower. We fished a little farther around and all of a sudden with no warning there was a loud crack and part of the front deck that holds the front seat broke and fell in. I was fishing to the side and was falling in slow motion toward the water. My feet came over my head and in essence I did a back flip into the water and went under. Hat was floating, sunglasses gone. The water did not seem too cold for some reason. I swam back to the boat and pulled up on the side and with a lot of help from Hal came over the side into the boat. Hal gave a 9.3 on the dive with slight deductions for the expletives uttered before splashdown. We fished another hour with no bites. Being wet was not that bad. What was bad was having to sit sideways on the front deck to fish. Lucky no kinks in the back so far. Phone got wet and son Harley went on the internet and found a way to dry it out by putting it in a sock and attaching a reversed vacuum cleaner to the sock for three hours. I’m using a hair dryer on low. Been on hour so far. We ended up with 11 fish and the aforementioned FOD. EDIT: Much to my disbelief the sock trick worked, phone started right up and worked. Link to video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEjC0Ude8CA