Epic rocket fest

[Chrisper4694]

summer ended with a nice cold snap and as I stood out side at work Thursday and felt that chill in the air I knew I had to go fishing! It was rainy, windy, and chilly and it was just me and a wind surfer on the lake. As soon as I started putzing across the lake I was completely engulfed in diving gulls!

I threw a popper a few times but no fish were really busting. So I grabbed my fly and started jigging it instantly starting what would be 2 hours of rocket battles! 8 bryds landed and 1 lost with at least 7-9 smacks without hookups.

That's about 1 every 15 minutes including unhooking and some pics! Also, I ran over some sausage smackers discarded braided line and wasted about 20 minutes taking my prop off and cutting a crap ton of line out while gulls dove all around me...talk about being pissed off haha.

Only one fish was small, most were 22-23.5" with a few 21 inchers. All caught 10' deep in 20-40' of water, although I'm pretty sure it didn't matter this day!

This is why we own rain gear!