Thought I'd get a jump on things and try to get Trev's mouth watering.
I'm putting this in a seperate thread since it will be added to from time to time and would get too jumbled up in the "where have you fished" thread.
In case anyone has been on Mars lately (or just joined) Ziptrev is headed to North Carolina, USA, in May to stay with me and fish a bit. We will probably confine ourselves to one lake but it has enough variations to allow us to fish lots of different types of water and never have to leave the one lake.
This is the one. You will note lots of pickup trucks with empty trailers. All those folks were already on the lake when I got there.
And the autos you see with no trailers are the shore anglers. You gotta look closely but I think there may be one in there somewhere. Not particularly crowded the day I took this pic. Weather was acting up a bit and it was mid-afternoon on a slow fish day so lots of folks were already gone.
And the boat we will be spending lots of time in for a few days. A little tough to pick out detail but it is a 17ft aluminum hull with a 50hp mecury for main power. In the front, there is the trolling motor and the front fishing chair - convenient to the foot control for the motor (which is lying flat now but is mounted so it will swing upright easily.
In the center, the steering console (on the right as most boats are which is strange since our autos all steer from the left) and chairs for running. Top speed is around 30mph which is fine for the smaller lakes I fish. No more than 20-30 minutes to get anywhere on the lake. Rear is the other fishing chair.
I am hoping before the whole thing is over I can get Trev up front to run the trolling motor and cast at the same time. Possibly he may catch one of those tree fish while he is getting the knack of it though (tree fish = a limb high in a tree).
A picture of the boat landing and launch ramps (well, the back one is kinda hard to see). Only one boat in the picture but there can be up to a dozen waiting to put in or take out. The water back in this little pocket is around 7 ft deep but it will drop off to 25 ft before it hits the main lake which is around 60 ft deep at this point.
A view of a section of the lake. 30-40 feet deep. Take a look at the hill in the right side of the picture.
This is that same hill shot from right across the lake from it.
Comments are welcome. The more the merrier.
Newt Vail
I'm putting this in a seperate thread since it will be added to from time to time and would get too jumbled up in the "where have you fished" thread.
In case anyone has been on Mars lately (or just joined) Ziptrev is headed to North Carolina, USA, in May to stay with me and fish a bit. We will probably confine ourselves to one lake but it has enough variations to allow us to fish lots of different types of water and never have to leave the one lake.
This is the one. You will note lots of pickup trucks with empty trailers. All those folks were already on the lake when I got there.
And the autos you see with no trailers are the shore anglers. You gotta look closely but I think there may be one in there somewhere. Not particularly crowded the day I took this pic. Weather was acting up a bit and it was mid-afternoon on a slow fish day so lots of folks were already gone.
And the boat we will be spending lots of time in for a few days. A little tough to pick out detail but it is a 17ft aluminum hull with a 50hp mecury for main power. In the front, there is the trolling motor and the front fishing chair - convenient to the foot control for the motor (which is lying flat now but is mounted so it will swing upright easily.
In the center, the steering console (on the right as most boats are which is strange since our autos all steer from the left) and chairs for running. Top speed is around 30mph which is fine for the smaller lakes I fish. No more than 20-30 minutes to get anywhere on the lake. Rear is the other fishing chair.
I am hoping before the whole thing is over I can get Trev up front to run the trolling motor and cast at the same time. Possibly he may catch one of those tree fish while he is getting the knack of it though (tree fish = a limb high in a tree).
A picture of the boat landing and launch ramps (well, the back one is kinda hard to see). Only one boat in the picture but there can be up to a dozen waiting to put in or take out. The water back in this little pocket is around 7 ft deep but it will drop off to 25 ft before it hits the main lake which is around 60 ft deep at this point.
A view of a section of the lake. 30-40 feet deep. Take a look at the hill in the right side of the picture.
This is that same hill shot from right across the lake from it.
Comments are welcome. The more the merrier.
Newt Vail
