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Author:
PECo
Date:
Aug 25, 2012
Subject:
Batterson Park Pond 08/25
Message:
After reading today's post by damage inc (aka Soto) about trolling up a skunk at Ball Pond, I just had to try trolling for walleye at Batterson. I headed out this evening with the hope that I'd catch at least one fish. When I arrived at the boat launch ramp with The Other Woman, a red kayak and a small wooden sailboat were getting off of the water. I spoke with the kayaker, who had been fishing. He said that he had caught only a couple of one pound largemouth bass with a crankbait off of the east shore. When I launched just after 7:00 pm, the air temperature was 74 degrees and there was a light south wind. The water temperature was 79 degrees and it was murky. I headed up the west shore, along where the weedline had been earlier this year. To my surprise, there are fewer weeds than there were before. I trolled a Perch Rapala Jointed Shad Rap JSR05 and what I think is a Firetiger Rapala Flat Rap FLR10 that I found in a tree a while ago. Shortly before 8:00 pm, I got a hit on the JSR05 near the beach from what I knew was a walleye and reeled it up to the surface. Unfortunately, I tried to gill it when it was still green, and it was able to shake free of my hand and the lure. It was a nice fish, but I could see that it wasn't a keeper. It was probably 16 inches long. By this time, the air temperature had fallen to about 69 degrees and the south wind had risen to about seven miles per hour. 20 minutes later, I got another hit on the JSR05 and hauled the walleye directly onto The Other Woman: [img:2e83090006]http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/6214/img3343cropped.jpg[/img:2e83090006] It was slightly smaller than the first one. Before I could get the hook out of its lower lip, it managed to hook my PFD with two of the hooks on the other treble. :? After I photographed and released it, I used my hemostat to tear the hooks out of the PFD and managed to embed a hook on the other treble into my thumb, past the barb. Sheisse! :shock: It's strange how easily fish can spit a barbed treble hook, but when one is in your thumb, it does [b:2e83090006]NOT[/b:2e83090006] want to come out! In the end, I just clenched my teeth and ripped it out with the hemostat. :roll: Mission accomplished, I headed off of the water just after 8:30 pm. It felt great to get out there, even for just a little while.
Author:
SAP284
Date:
Aug 25, 2012
Message:
I know exactly what you mean about the treble hooks Phil. Somehow they manage to hook my boat seats too and do not want to come out without ruining everything :x I've noticed at night lately the temps have been dropping a lot...finally.
Author:
PECo
Date:
Aug 25, 2012
Message:
The air temperature had already fallen to 67 degrees when I got back to my car. But the water temperature held steady at 79 degrees during the hour and a half I was out there. If I hadn't hooked my thumb, I might have stayed out a little while longer.
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