Gull rock Fishing Report 1/7

[Dirtyb25]

I know I said that the last time I went up to LOW would probably be my only time, but I found an extra day to waste and up to the lake I went.<P>We got there about 7:15 and were set up and fishing by about 7:35. We didn't start hitting them until about 8, Very similar to what happened a couple days ago when I went. There would be nothing for 20-25 minutes, and then you couldn't keep a line in the water for a half an hour. We didn't catch anything huge, but overall they were larger than they were the last time. We all caught our limit of good eaters from 3/4's of a lb to a lb and a half.<BR>I didn't tally how many we caught over the day, but I would guess between the three of us we ended up catching around a hundred. <BR>Of these nearly one hundred we caught, I would consider almost all of them to be borderline keepers except for 10 or 15. Next year looks good for a lot of great eaters in that area.<P>We caught a couple of pout, and a perch too for a little extra icing on the cake. Man those pout are great if you cook em right.<P>Oh, an interesting sidenote here, I had something happen to me that I've never had happen before. I pulled one up until it just about made it to the ice, then it spit the hook. Ok, so that part I've had happen to me a lot, here's the weird part. It swam up into my other hole so I dove in elbow deep and came up with a nice 1 lb sauger.<P>Well, thats my halfassed fishing report, sorry it wasn't nearly as entertaining as the last one. We got lucky today and had no misfortunes, apart from the leaky gasket on my sunflower heater that had me half stoned by noon.

[Buckets]

Great report again ** I'm going up tomarrow and fish that area, thanks**<BR>How do you like to cook those line twisting tail slaping hole slimeing ugly albeit thrill catching and I've heard tasty critters anyhow ?? <BR>

[bturck]

dirty25: Thanks for the post. Always good to read about the tales and adventures of others. You apparently have quick hands as well. Bill

[Dirtyb25]

Buckets: I've posted this on here somewhere before I'm sure, either on this name, or my last account. But I usually cut out the back straps, then marinate them over night in milk. From that point I've fried them in butter with no breading, fried them in oil with breading, and broiled them and dipped them in butter. Every single time it was every bit as good as walleye.<P>And bturck, thanks, yeah you gotta have quick hands :-) I'm just glad the ice was only about 18 inches in deep, anything more than that and there's no way I woulda got him.<p>[This message has been edited by Dirtyb25 (edited 01-08-2004).]

[Buckets]

Well I guess I have a new quest (certainly seems like a low point of my lotw experiances It won't be high on my list anyways but I have promised not to through any back since the last trip when the neighbor wanted to try them, they loved it! She broiled it I think too.<BR>rats hopefully it's just one of those things I don't know what I'm missing** <BR>Thankyou Dirty' I'll try it!

[LABS4ME]

Boil the backstraps in 7-up for 6-7 minutes. dip in drawn garlic butter....MMM MMM MMM. Got my wife to try them this year...she wants me to go back for more. I know it's tough duty but somebodys gota do it! <P>Good Luck! Rip some Lips!<P>Ken