[Alphahawk]

Met browntrout at Center Hill today....I knew it would be full of folks but the conditions were right for kayaking. He was looking for Smallies and I was using the side imaging hunting for shell crackers.....and I was very successful. A couple of months back I mentioned in one of my posts that the Humminbird si would change the way I fish...and it has. I hung with browntrout for a little while and I moved on just paddling looking for beds on the sonar. I would mark a bed when I found it but was not going to start fishing until I had paddled as far away from the put in point as I wanted to be and I would fish all the beds I found on my way back out. I decided I was not going any further and started working my way back to the ramp fishing the last bed I found. I pulled a total of 33 shell cracker off of two beds...I will check out the others I marked on my next trip up. Most of the fish were 10-11 inch fish. The water was 76 degrees...stained. All fish were caught using a Bison colored Trout Magnet on a 1/32 ounce lead head with a #8 hook....and SOS 2# test line. It was 3 hours of drag pulling fun. All of the fish were released to fight another day. I even caught some 8-9 inch Gills but not many. Was too busy dealing with the king of the Gill world...Mr. Shell Cracker! It was a great day....life is good!


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