After having to go back and retrieve my forgotten trolling battery :-P and stopping to pickup som fresh worms, we got the boat pumped up and hit the lake around 8am. Most everyone else was not on the dock was trolling but we decided to plunk down some bobbers on light tackle out in the middle of the south end with, you guessed it, fresh tasty worms. Not a bad idea either. Within a minute of the first bobber going down I had a small, about 6", plant on the hook. Just after I reeled him in my buddy pulled one in too. We kept this up for about an hour of smallish plants. These guys were gulping them deep which was making it hard to get the hooks out, so we finaly changed out for larger hooks and decided to go a little deeper hoping to entice some bigger catches.

I had just put a fresh big fat worm and lowerd my stop a few more feet and cast out, then about a minute later my bobber went down solid and the pole took a distinct bend. As I started to reel in by drag started zinging. This was clearly not one of the little planted trout we had been reeling in for the last hour. I managed to reel him in just near the boat, this guy didn't just wiggle the pole, he took it down and set off with the drag. When I finaly got him near the boat I got a brief glimps of it's girth just as he rolled at the surface while I was trying to get the net ready, wow what a catch this was going to be. Just then he dove hard and snapped my 6lb test leader and was then destined for another chapter of trout tales.

We spent the next couple hours just tossing bobbers with a worm and reelling in planters until the sun came out and everything quited down.

Released all but two 8" plants as most of the catches were fairly small.

All in all both me and my buddy agreed that is was a fun day of catching some feisty trout even if they were a bit small. And I'll be back looking for Charlie the whopper trout! :-)

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