Schooling Lake Trout

Hi Willi:

How do you know? Well I don't know much.
That's the 4th time I've gone up there. The later the
better is the local wisdom. If I could choose I'd look for
good weather in early November.
But they close the Park to fishing Nov 1.

And you have to reserve a campground months in advance.
That's the worst part. It always seems to be bad weather
when you have no date flexibility.

One interesting thing: the Park service keeps (only) Yellowstone
Lake open past Nov 1st. As long as the roads are open, you
can fish. And if you do catch a laker, you cannot release it.
You have to konk'em whether you like it or not,
and there is no limit. And the lakers do come into shallow
water in late October. Sort a redneck fish konkers holiday.

On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:48:48 -0600, Willi
wrote:

Your posts weren't always like that.

Perhaps they changed AFTER I stopped fishing the spawn. d;o) My
comments are the truth; fishing a spawn is never sport. The fish are
in an agitated state and will strike at just about anything. I
discovered this while fishing for chinooks in Canada. They were
fairly easy to hook, difficult to land. ANY spawning fish is easy to
hook.

Dave

Dave LaCourse wrote:
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:48:48 -0600, Willi
wrote:


Your posts weren't always like that.


Perhaps they changed AFTER I stopped fishing the spawn. d;o) My
comments are the truth; fishing a spawn is never sport. The fish are
in an agitated state and will strike at just about anything. I
discovered this while fishing for chinooks in Canada. They were
fairly easy to hook, difficult to land. ANY spawning fish is easy to
hook.

Dave




That's not true, there are spawning fish that are "impossible" to catch
while spawning without snagging them.

but that wasn't my point.

Like I said in my last post, I knew you would rationalize all your
negative posts, but take the time and read your last 100 and see what
you think.

Willi

On Oct 22, 5:54 pm, Dave LaCourse wrote:
On Mon, 22 Oct 2007 16:48:48 -0600, Willi
wrote:

Your posts weren't always like that.

Perhaps they changed AFTER I stopped fishing the spawn. d;o) My
comments are the truth; fishing a spawn is never sport. The fish are
in an agitated state and will strike at just about anything. I
discovered this while fishing for chinooks in Canada. They were
fairly easy to hook, difficult to land. ANY spawning fish is easy to
hook.

Dave

It's important to remember the best way to live is "everything in
moderation
..........including moderation."

Which means it's important to experience extreme behavior every now
and then.
Not too often mind you, just often enough. Fishing (pre) spawning
lake trout
would indeed get boring in a hurry. But when you do catch'em that way
a for an hour
or two every three or four years.....well, you're just living a
balanced life.
:-)

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:09:31 -0000, salmobytes
wrote:

But when you do catch'em that way
a for an hour
or two every three or four years.....well, you're just living a
balanced life.

Sandy, catching spawning lake trout that will strike at just about
anything (like many salmon) just is not sport to me. I too once
fished that way every so often, and it is true that I got joy and
excitement from catching/landing the fish. However, I could compare
it with making love to an unknown woman in a dark room and enjoying
the hell out of it, but later you find the the woman is your sister.
Well, that is a bit extreme, but I hope you get the idea. My
conscience still bothers me thinking about catching fish during a
spawn. It just is not sport. Sorry, but.....

Dave

.......ok Dave. You got the last word.
:-)

On Oct 22, 7:21 pm, Dave LaCourse wrote:
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 01:09:31 -0000, salmobytes

wrote:
But when you do catch'em that way
a for an hour
or two every three or four years.....well, you're just living a
balanced life.

Sandy, catching spawning lake trout that will strike at just about
anything (like many salmon) just is not sport to me. I too once
fished that way every so often, and it is true that I got joy and
excitement from catching/landing the fish. However, I could compare
it with making love to an unknown woman in a dark room and enjoying
the hell out of it, but later you find the the woman is your sister.
Well, that is a bit extreme, but I hope you get the idea. My
conscience still bothers me thinking about catching fish during a
spawn. It just is not sport. Sorry, but.....

Dave

This kind of thinking is like feeling guilty about a wet dream. Give
me a freeking break man. It's sport when they're starving to survive
(and feeding during a hatch) but it's not sport when they're striking
defensively? You must drive yourself nuts.

TBone
Guilt replaced the creel

On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:23:44 -0000, Halfordian Golfer
wrote:

This kind of thinking is like feeling guilty about a wet dream. Give
me a freeking break man. It's sport when they're starving to survive
(and feeding during a hatch) but it's not sport when they're striking
defensively? You must drive yourself nuts.

Any fool, including you, can catch a spawning fish without even
trying. Put the lure in front of them and they will strike it. The
term "shooting fish in a barrel" was surely coined to describe fishing
the spawn. What's the matter, Tim, you can't catch fish the normal
way, ya gotta go after the spawners to feel macho? Jerk.

Dave

On Oct 23, 1:26 pm, Dave LaCourse wrote:
On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:23:44 -0000, Halfordian Golfer

wrote:
This kind of thinking is like feeling guilty about a wet dream. Give
me a freeking break man. It's sport when they're starving to survive
(and feeding during a hatch) but it's not sport when they're striking
defensively? You must drive yourself nuts.

Any fool, including you, can catch a spawning fish without even
trying. Put the lure in front of them and they will strike it. The
term "shooting fish in a barrel" was surely coined to describe fishing
the spawn. What's the matter, Tim, you can't catch fish the normal
way, ya gotta go after the spawners to feel macho? Jerk.

Dave

Calm down Dave. Next thing you know this place will be as
acrimonious as roff. Nobody's a jerk here, including you
me and Tim. Spawning fish can be easy to catch.
But like I pointed out earlier, I watched 3 guys (part of
a guided trip out of West Yellowstone) strip streamers over
those fish all day without a single hit.

I put on a little more weight, waited a little longer after the cast,
hand-twisted slowly, and knocked'em silly. After a few fish
(it was fun for an hour or so) I let them be.
They're over-populated there and they want you to konk'em.
So--at least in that sense--sport (or lack thereof) is irrelevant.
Fish'em if you want. Don't fish'em if you don't want.

I'm easy.