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06/26/2010
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Largemouth Bass
Worms
Brown
Plastics
Afternoon
06/26/2010
5
1864

Headed out to Log Boom Park today after reading a report about it yesterday.
I fished here a lot last year and after reading a report about it I thought I would head out there today.

I'll just start off by saying this.
Fishing today was OFF THE HOOK!! ;)

Just a couple weeks ago I finally bought a Berkley Digital Scale so now I know just how much my fish weigh!
I also bought a 5 foot, 2 piece Ugly Stick Ultra Light Combo which makes catching any fish fun! :)

But anyways, to the good stuff!
I started off skipping under the dock with a creature bait on a 2/0 Hook and BAM! First cast, First Fish, First Largie :)
It weighed in at just 10 ounces but put up a good fight for it's size!
I snapped a pic and tossed it back in.

I make my second cast skipping under the dock and hook into another largie!
This time it was a better fish!
It weighed in at 1 lb 7 ounces.
Not a big one but it felt pretty big and put up a good fight.

Anyways, after I caught those 2 largies, I satisfied my bass fix and decided to go after panfish.
I was just using a bobber and worm and adjusting the length of the leader depending on where I was fishing.

I caught countless pumpkinseed sunfish, yellow perch, and annoying sculpin.
But here it the best part!
Out of the 50 + times I fished here last summer, I have never seen anyone catch a Black Crappie OR a Brown Bullhead Catfish.
But I caught BOTH today!!

I totally had a blast out there today!
I was constantly catching fish and some people were being babies about it and making snotty remarks towards me.
This is extremely cliche to say but don't hate the player, hate the game!
Everyone kept asking me what I was using and what I was doing that they weren't.
I have a few tricks up my sleeve but I'm not gonna give that out to everyone obviously so I just told them I don't know haha..

Anyways, since I can only upload 2 photos I put combined 2 pictures per file so I can show 4 fish!
Enjoy!

I measured the length from the tip of my middle finger to the edge of my wrist and it's 8 inches.
So the Pumpkinseed pictured was about 7 inches long.
The Black Crappie pictured was a bit bigger and pushing at least 9 inches.
The Brown Bullhead Catfish had a HUGE belly on it, either it was just extremely fat or pregnant. You can't see it that well from the angle of the picture but it looked like she swallowed a peach. She weighed in at 11 ounces.

I highly suggest you get out here and fish ASAP because pretty soon there may not be many fish left to catch!
I released all of my fish today except the Black Crappie because this asian family pleaded with me to let them have it.
I was shocked and disgusted when they opened their cooler and it was filled with TINY pumpkinseeds, I'm talking 1 - 3 inches.
Why even bother taking those?
It's not worth the pain of cleaning something that small to eat it!
Also, I have never seen SO MANY people fishing here before.
The whole dock was pretty much covered with people fishing.
And pretty much ALL of them were taking everything they caught!
I was extremely disappointed that I was pretty much the only person catching and releasing!!


Comments

Mike Carey
6/26/2010 11:17:00 PM
nice report. I think those little guys get fried up whole, not fileted, but I could be wrong. Kinda like smelt, they get eaten whole, bones and all.
Elijah.Loves.Fishin
6/26/2010 11:18:00 PM
oh i see.. but still.. i'd rather they get eaten to fatten up the game fish like bass rather than be consumed by humans :P
fishmanjh
6/27/2010 2:25:00 AM
I had no idea there were Sunfish in the Lake .... WOW !! I watched a fishing program years ago, where they took an Electric Knife and without gutting them, they would Fillet off the choice "part" from the sides , then cut the skin off, and deep fry them. With the Electric knife, they were able to fillet two 5 gallon buckets of those little guys in like an hour!!
G-Man
6/27/2010 7:24:00 AM
Cool pics and nice job on the variety of fish caught.

Fyi - People who keep any of sunfish they catch are doing us all a favor. They are really a nuisance fish, don't get very big and deplete an area of food rather quickly.
fishingboy
6/27/2010 8:37:00 AM
yeah man i caught a squawfish after u left killed it and threw it in the bushes! i hear you on that too... C&R is fun even though thier the panfish and the bass to fish for ou t there.
Amx
6/27/2010 9:04:00 AM
Throw the squawfish into the water and let the crayfish eat them, then more crayfish for the bass, then more bass for US to catch. :-)
mascorella21
6/27/2010 10:01:00 AM
you gotta love log boom, come august, those catfish really come out about sunset. good report
Elijah.Loves.Fishin
6/27/2010 12:35:00 PM
hm.. i don't really consider sunfish a nuisance fish.. i consider squawfish and carp a nuisance fish.. and i somewhat agree about taking some fish so the others can get fat but taking 40 - 50 babies per person is just overkill. and sunfish do get pretty big, you've probably just never caught them. sunfish have been caught over 2 lbs before.
ChrisB
6/27/2010 4:58:00 PM
Sucks to hear the tiny sunfish get taken out. Would love to catch some good fish sunfish, or better yet have the Largies eat them :-) Nice fish you caught and released !
The Quadfather
6/27/2010 8:30:00 PM
That is really nice to hear about your success at Logboom. I have always blacklisted that dock for years. It is a HUGE DOCK. It could have such potential for so many people without boats. But up until this report from you.... I have ALWAY struck out here. I will have to give it another try. That was good how you doubled up on the photos, I wish I new what you did??
pika206
7/2/2010 10:23:00 AM
Great photos - i've read a couple of your posts and enjoy the writing as well as the variety of fish that you catch. I recently just started learning to fish again and i'm hooked this summer. (as a kid my Dad used to take me to the ferry docks around edmonds) but that was mostly shiner perch and clam digging on our camping trips.) Anyway, thanks for the interesting posts and hope to catch you around sometime.
Elijah.Loves.Fishin
7/2/2010 2:44:00 PM
thanks man, i appreciate it :)
KBLACKKNIGHT50
7/29/2010 7:48:00 AM
Log Boom Park is a mess. Went fishing there monday and caught nothing but milfoil weed on Every Cast. Where are the fish in this Lake.
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