Walleye Express Posted March 31, 2009 Share Posted March 31, 2009 Wulp. I've spent the last hour trying to retrieve the pictures we took today of both our suckers and the 2 dandy walleyes I caught on the Rifle River. Used my new Canon video camera again today and I seem to be doing something wrong. I finally figured out the pictures were simnply not in the camera for some reason or another. Damn shame. Anyways, we got to the rifle about 9:30 or so. Water was way up and really cooking. We watched for a while on the North side of the river and didn't see one fish landed. So we took the muddy two traker down river a ways and found a nice eddie on a corner. 3rd cast with orange imitation rubber spawn I felt a tick and set the hook. To my surprise a nice 4 pound walleye came boiling up. A few casts later another walleye of about 6 pounds came to net. Took that ones picture (I thought). A few minutes later my first sucker, then it went dead. Went on the other side of the river on the first bend below the DNR parking lot and caught 5 more suckers on Gulp soaked sponge squares I cut out and lost several others and what might have been a steelhead. I had the hot hand today, but I'm more used to drifting spawn then Mark is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Priority1 Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 GJ Dan, except in the photo dept. It takes a while to gain the feel that you have acquired. Sometimes it's what you don't feel that tips you. If Mark keeps hanging with you, he will pick it up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Bomb Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 Nice....Sounds like a fun day to me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walleye Express Posted April 1, 2009 Author Share Posted April 1, 2009 Yup....it sure was a fun day. I was mildly surprised how much fun it really was. The suckers looked great, just got their last dose of brown sugar and stiring and are about 1 hour away from the smoker. And the walleye were a pleasant surprise and both were really fat, sassy and healthy looking. I know the rifle has miles and miles of viable spawning gravel upstream. But I wonder just how many of their eggs survive and do not get eaten by all those gravel cleaning suckers. But what the hell, they were here first I guess. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Walleye Express Posted April 1, 2009 Author Share Posted April 1, 2009 Hey, guess what I found in the bowls of my new camera after reading the manual again on how to retrieve such things. See, I was really there, and this was the smaller of the 2 walleyes. But I'm still missing 3 pictures of the suckers I caught. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Bomb Posted April 1, 2009 Share Posted April 1, 2009 Hey hey, it can be done!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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