This weekend proved to be a monumental fish situation. On Friday night, Shanna and I went down to Duck Valley and fished Mountain View with Damon and Annie. The rainbows were biting big time (purple leech fly and PowerBait tipper) within a few minutes of sunrise, and Shanna proceeds to land two fish over 20" in the first hour. In the next five hours we caught and released over 30 fish, most of which were great fighters in the 14" - 18" range. Trolling three rods, we had two instances when two fish were on at one time, and one instance all three of us were bringing in fish at the same time!
This was all before lunch time....Shanna and I decide to take advantage of the kids being at grandma's, so we drove home and took the boat to Lake Lowell. After a little Panda Express break on the water, I found that skimming the rubber frog over the lily pads raised quite a ruckus in the form of a couple of minor keepers, then a fine 3.5lb largemouth. So after a crash course in casting reels, heavy rods and setting the hook like you mean it, Shanna proceeds to horse in a nice 3lb fish to top off a beautiful day!!
