Larry R
Old Mossy Horns
My brother and I went to Kerr yesterday and had one of the weirdest days I can ever recall fishing.
We fished all day long and wound up boating between 30 - 35 fish. Biggest was one he caught at 3 lbs 7 oz. Generally they were between 10 to 14 inches. All in all a good day fishing. But here is the weird part. We hooked and lost 40 -50 fish within the same general size range. We have never hooked and lost so many fish and it dang sure wasn't because our hooks were dull. They were the Gamagatzu (sp?) lazer sharp treble hooks. What we discovered is that out of the 30 - 35 fish we boated only perhaps 6 or 7 actually had the hooks in their mouth. The others were hooked in the side of the head or body. Those we got close enough to the boat to see clearly also were not hooked in the mouth. We came to the conclusion that the fish were not actually interested in striking the lures to eat the bait but were just slapping at the lure in what appeared to be an attempt to run/scare the lures away. Of those we boated none of them appeared to be on beds or guarding fry. I don't know what their problem was but I do know for a fact that I couldn't reach into the tackle box or attempt to untangle the hooks without getting hooked myself so HTH could they grab hold or get hooked and then escape about the time we got them up near the boat. We were using a landing net IF we could hang with them long enough to get them that close to the boat.
Took some photos but Photobuck still seems to be angry at me for some reason and won't let up upload photos. LOL.
We fished all day long and wound up boating between 30 - 35 fish. Biggest was one he caught at 3 lbs 7 oz. Generally they were between 10 to 14 inches. All in all a good day fishing. But here is the weird part. We hooked and lost 40 -50 fish within the same general size range. We have never hooked and lost so many fish and it dang sure wasn't because our hooks were dull. They were the Gamagatzu (sp?) lazer sharp treble hooks. What we discovered is that out of the 30 - 35 fish we boated only perhaps 6 or 7 actually had the hooks in their mouth. The others were hooked in the side of the head or body. Those we got close enough to the boat to see clearly also were not hooked in the mouth. We came to the conclusion that the fish were not actually interested in striking the lures to eat the bait but were just slapping at the lure in what appeared to be an attempt to run/scare the lures away. Of those we boated none of them appeared to be on beds or guarding fry. I don't know what their problem was but I do know for a fact that I couldn't reach into the tackle box or attempt to untangle the hooks without getting hooked myself so HTH could they grab hold or get hooked and then escape about the time we got them up near the boat. We were using a landing net IF we could hang with them long enough to get them that close to the boat.
Took some photos but Photobuck still seems to be angry at me for some reason and won't let up upload photos. LOL.