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I decided to fish after work, the rain had stopped and it seemed as though it would stay that way. As I walked out onto the dock at Log Boom I didn’t see a soul except the resident Blue Heron. I didn’t even see the Eagles out fishing. I thought, not a good sign. After last week’s accidental Carp catch I decided that I would actively target them today. I was using a 7’ medium ugly stick, 12 lb mono, with a hair rig which consisted of a #6 hook and 30lb moss green braid.
I chummed the area that was going to fish and proceeded to rig my pole, after the thirty minutes, I threw in my line with about four pieces of corn on the hair. I kept hearing some fish surfacing, but never could see him, just the concentric circles he left.
After about an hour, the sun broke out briefly and I realized that I had selected the wrong spot to fish, it wasn’t in the weed break I thought it was, that was 10’ further up. I threw a chum ball there and continued to fish the spot I was at. After thirty minutes I moved to the new spot.
The hair rig for me is new, and I am not sure the best method to fish it, some say fish it with the line taught, others say leave the line slack or to fish with the bail open. I tried with the line taught. My rod tapped, I went to set the hook, nothing, when I examined the bait my corn was gone. I replaced it, threw in some more chum and fished it with the line slack.
I was thinking about packing it up when I the line began to move. I reeled in the slack and set the hook. My rod bent and I had a brief fight with the fish, it was at this point it broke the surface and I realized that what I had caught was a Rainbow Trout. This time, I had brought my net and quickly scooped him up. He measured 19 ¾ “, just barely legal to keep and weighed after processing 2.5 lbs. My wife loves Rainbow Trout and this definitely made up for last night’s tiff.
My camera crapped out a the dock so I had to take pics after I figured out what went wrong sorry for quality.
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