Report 7-14-12

[Filthyfisherman]

Launched 2-5pm, Couple Red Devils, LM, Tuc, SnakeHead, Catfish, And some lost fish!! Sunny, Hot, prt cldy, Windy 7.9 SE, BP30.05f, Level 68.87 Bottomed Out, WT 83.4! stained 2ft, We found them a little deep today,, and used the Agent Utah with 1/8oz tungsten bullets in Pumpkin and Watermellon colors!! Chris is a new member here at Filthyfishermen and easily passed the initiation of catching a nice fish with our plastic's. Caught a nice TUC! We had some good action today just throwing the Utah Around.. Chris also got a nice snakehead! Really healthy and cool looking!!! We were fishing up north in 3-10ft water, maybe 15ft... Water temps were high and the water clairity is bad around the Dam. Chris also caught a Catfish that had a Cuelling rope tied to it . After some minor surgery we got it free hopefully to heal up, it was a nice catty! We took care of some Red Devils. They were aggressive today!!! We will be putting a Wilson package together this week which will include 1/0EWG Hooks plus a couple 1/8oz tungsten wieghts and packs of The FF Agent Utah 3" Stick worm!!!! The Best Lure I've ever made!!!!!! Normal $20 Packs

[Cris808]

Thanks for taking me out Jeff!

[Ahnkochee]

Great variety, congratulations. Did you let that Pongee go? I would love to see the Pongee population increase and maybe start putting some serious pressure on the Red Devils.

Large Pongees will eat anything including red Devils.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3O4FTku_Jv4

But it looks like Red Devils feed on young Pongees too.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bszOn--q2zI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IBw9bUPZ1Cc

[Cris808]

Yup we let it go

[Ahnkochee]

COOL

[BASSTRACKER]

oddly enough i have seen maybe a half dozen or so pongee in the 2 lb range cruising various locations on the last couple of trips out on the lake. before that the last one i saw was in 2010 and the last one i actually caught i think was 2009. always seem to make a reappearance when the water is lower.last trip out i actually saw a huge boil next to my boat and at first glimpse though it was a huge papio. I'm thinking now of course it was a pacu which would make more sense but it must have been in the 10-12lb class, startled me to have it come up so close to the boat outa no where.

[Ahnkochee]

Thanks for the exciting news, gives me more incentive to get my butt out to the lake.