Seeing more rain is on the way, I decided to try the lakes again since they just had their last plant of the season and the rains are coming back with a vengeance.
I get down to muddy water once again. I haven't seen these lakes clear in a few months as all the runoff in the upper lakes drains all the sediment to the lower ones.
I tied up 2 floating crawler rigs and forewent the power bait this time. I had my trout dip, so hopefully that would let out the scent needed to finally get one. I even used two varying lengths of leader to see at what depth the trout were actually swimming at.
I KNOW there should be trout since they did back to back trout plants...Like usual, it was quiet. I stalked the shoreline to look for trout at the edge, but it was so muddy, I couldn't see 2" down.
As I was sitting in my car in a trance staring at my rods, I saw the indicator bobber drop and then shoot up and the line was singing! That got my adrenaline up!
It was running all over and I felt this one was a bigger trout for sure... but it never came to the surface which made me pause in my enjoyment. I had the drag tight as you could get on 2# test, and it still managed to take close to 10 minutes to get it in. With the water so muddy, I had no idea (or my hope for it to be a trout was so great it overrode my "factual" part of my brain saying it was most likely a big cat.
Well, I finally got it to the net and it was a FAT cat! I'm pretty sure there was a trout in that belly.
I wanted to get a measurement since it was a pretty big and even nice-looking kitty, but I was not in a mood to be surrounded by a gang of kids so I snapped a few shots and let her go.
Well, no trout once again but it was really fun reeling in a ~6# cat on 2# test. I suspect they are telling everyone they are stocking trout when in reality they are just stocking cats, or at least that's my theory on why I keep catching cats when I'm trout fishing. lol
Well, I'll get one of them sooner or later. I might have to try again today after work.
