edit.......oh yes, i almost forgot to ask........were you and yer buddy fishing blind, or did you throw around at all that beautiful structure......the trench? sunil's mound?
some more details my man... where were they hangin out?
...glad ya asked, Dave - His boat is a nice little package. We tooled around with the trolling motor; no petrol intervention.
He has 2 separate depth finders/transponders; one fore, one aft. As we slowly moved about, I sat aft and was able to watch both screens and see the changes as they occurred from 2 different points of measure. It was very rewarding to watch the subtle and significant changes as a result of our attention to bottomscaping when we excavated. This reward goes directly back to the PB forum for guidance during construction. My pal, Phil, does a fair amount of fishing in the nort' woods of Minnesota + other various midwest locations. He was VERY impressed by the constantly changing depths, ditches, mounds, and holes. He often referred to marking fish with the depth finder. After showing me what to look for, I will agree. - - Although we marked fish in numerous places, he kept coming back to the monster holes in the foreground of the above pic as holding the highest inventory. The pond is down about 18"; the deepest depth reading we got was 16'. When we built it, the laser-shot elevations peg the monster holes at 18' - 20', so we were pretty close to hovering over the deepest points. We worked them with no results. - Now...let's talk PVC trees. Phil is sold. This is where the action was. I can already foresee him loading up his boat with PVC pipe on his next run up to Minny. All 3 fish were caught within the PVC reef (the line of 6 PVC trees, flanked by a tire pyramid at each end). - Phil did most of the casting. He noted hits fairly often and became very focused on pulling the lure thru the reef. Both YP were caught directly adjacent to a PVC tree there, also. - Dski and I did nothing more than to re-acquaint ourselves by fishing with worm and bobber. Neither of us got action, but that's OK. The fact that we picked up and used open face reel equipment after so many years was documented as a successful day for us. Dski picked up handling the reel and bail thing v quickly.
