Last night we fished Ten Mile Lake and had a fun time. We decided to use four different pink hoochies rigged each with a different attractor. One had a Gibbs bling blade blade, one had a Mack’s smile blade, one had a Mack’s wiggle bill and the other had an action disc. Which hoochie combination do you think was working the best?
When we arrived at the lake, we were greeted by some hungry residents. Unfortunately, the time has come to stock the truck with bug spray. My itchy mosquito bites are a constant reminder of the donation I made during protest.
We arrived late to the lake, at 19:30 and were fishing in 15 minutes. We started in the usual spring fishing location (it also helped that Peter gave me a starting point). It didn’t take long before we were marking fish on our fish finder. We found a huge school, but decided to run our engine a bit first to see if we fixed a fuel leak we had (which might actually have been an oil leak). The boat seemed to loose power and came out of plane after a good run down the lake. I’ll have to see what it does over the next few trips.
After our run down the lake, we set up over the school of kokanee we found. We brought some old corn we had in the fridge from our last ice fishing trip at Purden lake. Although some of it smelled ok, other cans were showing signs of mold developing. We ended up choosing corn that Ryan gave us from Rynos Answer Baits. We used the Killer Krill and it later proved to still be effective after months of being in the fridge.
The school of kokanee was not interested in our offerings (plus they disappeared after a few passes), so we changed locations. We ended up finding two kokanee willing to bite and lost 3 others. One kokanee was caught thanks to a wave making wake boat that went by on his first pass. We had to steer into his monstrous waves and the up and down action of the waves combined with a slight increase in boat speed helped trigger a bite. The next pass from the wake boat would not yield a kokanee, but rather some exciting action as our bow almost went under the water of the next wave. This got me thinking, the waves from these boats must be hard on the shoreline.
Our Okuma Aveon Line counter reel fell apart (broke) last night. I would later spend a few hours when I got home trying to determine what happened. Stay tuned for what I found was the cause of the failure.
Overall, it was a perfect evening fishing the northern Cariboo. The lake calmed down as the sun set and we had the lake to ourselves during the last hour of the evening while we enjoyed the Cariboo sunset as the temperature dropped. Next time, I hope I don’t forget my sweater in the truck.