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Another mysterious day at the Garhole

Wednesday, January 27th, 2010 | Author:

I went to the Garhole again today, but before arriving there, I saw the water crossing the dam of Catfish Chute due to a fast rising river.01272010800 I was tempted to stop there and fish in the running water but it’s usually not good fishing when the water is as cold as it is now. I continued. It was 11:45 when fishing started and the water temperature was 47 degrees. I started on the sunny North bank with a DTF-3.  After an hour and a half, a fish finally bit, but only one of those “courtesy bites”. It really didn’t want to eat whatever it struck at.  It was right where I got one of the same kind of bites the other day. At what I consider the good spot, another light bite or two but no hangers on.  Finally on a shakey head I got a skunk saver into the boat.01272010801The water had warmed to 49 to 50 by now.  I managed to catch two more on a DTF-3 in completely different spots, including the FOD 2  3/4. Then I returned to the “courtesy biter” to give it another opportunity. It took the opportunity and scolded me again. By the way, my DTF-3 has the Rapala “sure set hooks” on it that are supposed to catch the light biters. I have no clue what the fish are doing or how to get them to bite consistently. I went back and looked at my log from last year and saw that the water temperatures were higher then.  There is also a full moon.

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