Went to East Twin Lake on Saturday. The guy who was supposed to go with me
begged off late Friday so I ended up going alone. Put the boat in the water
at 6. Threw a spinnerbait and ajerkbait for a few minutes, just because it
wasn't quite light yet. Stupid. I knew I was going there to drop shot. Why
did I even bring any other rods? Picked up the DS rod at 6:15. Caguth a two
pounder at 6:20. And a 1-1/2 at 6:25. Both came from 25 feet of water. 6:40
I hooked a big fish and it dragged me across the zebra muscle enctrusted
top of a ridge and pretty much cut itself free. Grabbed the other DS rod
and made another cast. Caught a short. The sun cleared the mountain to my
east a minute later. My next hit was a quarter to 10, when I made another
pass down the stretch of frop-off I started on, 3 hours earlier. Just shy
of five pounds! And then nothing until noon, when I came back to that spot
again. This time though, I caught 8 fish in about 30 minutes. Mostly 1-1/2
to 2-1/2 pounders. And broke off another big fish in the zebra muscles. The
skiers were out by this time, and things were getting dicey. A few minutes
later, a boat load of 20-somethings pulled up about 100 feet away, and just
sat there. After a few minutes, the cloud of smoke that was hovering over
their boat blew my way. I knew I'd better find some place else to fish or
I'd be stoned in short order. Went to a drop-off that SHOULD have been
productive, but hadn't produced anything yet. After about 20 minutes, I
hooked another really heavy fish. And broke it off. #@!$@##$ zebra muscles.
Every break-off, I came back with 3 or 4 feet of shredded line. I actually
had 8 pound on a spare rod, and tried that for quite a while, but never got
bit on it. Went back to the 4 pound and started catching fish. I guess the
bustoffs ate just a fact of life fishing zebra infested waters with real
light line. Really unusual to hook 4 big fish at Twin in one day (a
half-day, actually). I guess I was fortunate to actually get one of the m
in the boat.

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