8/10/04 Pool 4 Report

A friend and I drove down to Hacsola and saw how rough it was. Three to four foot waves easily . We decided to drive down to Roshan to check it out. Four to five foot waves, not much better . Both locations scared the living daylights out of us. We decided to pay a visit to the Alma Dam instead. We started by anchoring in about 13 feet of water next to the gate where the barges pass through. We only caught one sheepie. Both of us agreed on that we should drift instead of staying stationary. Our luck began to change. Every drift we caught a decent sized sauger .
After about three hours we decided to head to the Lake City pier, but not before stopping at Subway for a footlong sub. Man that was good. We both cracked open a MGD and the saugers started to hit like mad . Many times we both had saugers on at the same time. Wow, what a blast. Towards sunset (still by the pier) we saw several northerns on the top of the water, swirling around on top of the water. Then something happened which neither of us has ever seen before . We saw bluegills jump out of thirty foot deep water. We couldn’t believe what we were seeing. We saw three nice northerns chasing these Bluegills that were jumping out of the water. One of the biggest northerns was about three feet long, what a beauty. My friend decided to cast with a crankbait from all of the action we saw. Needless to say he never caught the northerns , but it was worth the try. Seagulls were diving into the water catching these Bluegills which were being chased by these NICE sized northerns. Right at sunset I had one hell of a hit on my pole. It shocked me and when I lifted the pole all I could feel was a bunch of weight then a big whack. As soon as I felt this dead weight, I set the hook immediately and then my line went limp . There were some serious teeth marks in my line. I bet that nice northern was on my line, but I will never know. There were a bunch of people on the rocky point next to the pier catching what I was assuming were either Perch or Bluegills. Every cast they caught a fish. It was unbelievable . Wow, what a fun day. We were on the water from 11am to 9:30pm. Thanks for the fun Roy . We will go again next Wednesday bud.