Da Vine 3/24 w/pics

[seatech]

Met up with Admiral Perry himself today at Irvine and pulled my 2 sons along with me.

Day started off great. Started trolling just past the boat dock and within 2 minutes hooked up a huge fish that pulled approx 50-75 yards of line.

Never really did get to stop it.

The day then turned to total $hit as 3 morons in a rental boat decided to troll right up my stern as I am fighting the fish. Not one of the 3 people in the boat were actually looking forward as the were trolling. After yelling, screaming, whistling at them, one finally looked up at me and then they came straight at me. Next thing I know, my line is wrapped in the prop and the fish is gone. Oh well, that's Irvine lake, home of big fish and even bigger boatniks.

Still managed to salvage the day, but it was on the slow side for us.

Hit our usual spot on the west shore for a blue gill and small rainbow.





Trolled at bit more and got into the crappie:




Checked in with the admiral while he was on west shore patrol:




Found a spot in the middle of the flats and we got into some good action in the afternoon. Here is Sean netting Ryan's 2nd fish of a double hookup for each of them.




...and then a few minutes later a double, gill/bow combo:




We ended up keeping 6 fish, all on the small side



All fish were either on the troll, fire tiger rapala or on the crawlers. Nothing on plastics or jigs today.

Thanks for the invite Perry, we need more days out like this!

Ed