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Thread: Great Day in East Harbor 7-4-16
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07-04-2016, 08:52 PM #1
Great Day in East Harbor 7-4-16
Took my family from Tennessee out to East Harbor in hopes of a fun day of fishing. It did not disappoint. We fished from 8 to 4 and caught 13 perch, including a 10" and 11" !! We also caught 9 keeper bluegill along with several throwbacks, 4 nice rock bass, and several largemouth. It was steady action all day and we all had a blast.
-2014 Tahoe Q5SF named "Fish-N-Tails"
Tight Lines!
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07-05-2016, 12:22 AM #2
We have a cottage on East Harbor, and there are some nice fish in it. I've gotten some decent perch, a lot of bluegill, rock bass, largemouth, and so on over time. Also some big sheephead (well, still, "FUN TO CATCH" or so they say) and big catfish. Sometimes you get a school of white bass coming in or out of the channel and you can hit 20-30 on a small spinner or Mr. Twister almost every cast.
I've even gotten a few walleye in the channel very early in the year, before the boat is in, trolling and jigging from the canoe on a calm day.
And now I will tell you my fish story. Believe it if you will.
Like I say, cottage on the harbor. I was born in 79. When I was little, you'd get the occasional perch or catfish in the harbor, but no bluegill or bass. I'm told, when my mom was a kid in the 50s, they were there, then disappeared as the lake got polluted.
Dad used to take me to Resthaven, an inland series of lakes, when I was little to bobber fish for bluegill. Sometimes we'd put the bluegill in a bucket and bring them back to show my grandpa. We'd then release them in the harbor. Over a few years that we did this, we probably dumped several hundred bluegill right next to Channel Grove Marina. Within 3 years or so, we started to get bass in the harbor, as well as bluegill.
So, I'm the reason that there are bluegill in the harbor.And thus larger fish.
Now, I have no illusions, it would have happened naturally anyhow, as the lake cleared up. I guess it's more accurate to say I'm the reason there were bluegill and bass in the harbor in the late 80s early 90s. Still, I like to think that when I catch a bluegill, it is the umpteen-great-grandbaby of one of the ones I released as a child.
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07-05-2016, 01:47 PM #3
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07-05-2016, 11:00 PM #4
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