Fishing Time: 7:30 am to 3:00 pm
Weather: Partly cloudy, calm, T-40s
Moon Phase: 50% Moon
Location: Scofield Reservoir
Best Bait: Trolling with a shallow diving crawdad crankbait
Who Went: Casey Davies, Bruce, Dunc
I still had the
musky itch so I talked Casey into trying our luck at Scofield. He invited his brother in-law, Bruce, from
Canada to join along. We arrived early
to a fogged over lake. We were prepared
with our pre-tied lures of choice for musky and started throwing them off every
point and bay we could find. We had a
lot of trout follows, but no musky to speak of.
After musky exhaustion set in, we turned to the tube jigs and targeted
trout. To our surprise there weren’t a
lot of trout that wanted to play with our tube jig offerings.
Finally, I gave
in to Casey’s need to troll and it was a good thing I did. We trolled around the island and started
landing fish. Casey was using a crawdad crankbait
and out produced Bruce and my Rapalas 4 to 1.
I just happened to have one in my tackle box, so I put one on and Casey
gave one to Bruce. From that point on we
had a fish on every couple minutes.
We never did
find any fish with size and majority of them were cutthroats with a few
rainbows mixed in. Either way the crawdad
troll saved the trip, and we caught more fish than I could count.
We ended the
day with another exhausting round of musky casting, but never saw one or had a
confirmed bite. Good fishing with good
company. It was fun having Bruce on the
boat and learning about his home in Western Canada.
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