Targa165
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What great weather we experienced this holiday weekend. Calm water with very little wind and the fishing was great too. We arrived at Buckboard on Friday the 1st and set up camp. We launched that afternoon and fished the Big Bend for several hours with only a couple of hits. We decided to call it quits and start early the next day. Saturday we launched at Buckboard and went South. The fishing was very good right from the start and we landed 4 really nice sized Kokes and 2 small ones that were hooked to bad to release, so we kept them and ate them for dinner that evening. We also kept a couple of small Mac pups. The next morning we went back to the same area and landed two more nice sized Kokes and called it a trip. The set up that was working the best for us was a Luhr Jensen 5 inch silver dodger and RMT pink UV hoochie at the 45 ft mark on the downrigger. It was really strange though, the last fish we got I had let out about 40 or 50 ft of line and was reaching for the downrigger ball to put the line in the release, when that koke about jerk the pole out of my lap and was hooked solid. The dodger and hoochie couldn't have been any more that 5 to 10 ft deep on its own out there. When it hit I thought it was a rainbow but when it got closer to the boat it was a 20 inch Koke. This was about 9:30 am and we had already picked up one nice koke that we kept and three other small ones we were able to released at the 45 ft mark. All in all it was a really relaxing trip with super calm water and good fishing. My wife got one that went 22 inches and was the biggest of the trip. She loves it when she gets the biggest fish, and I love it when she gets the biggest fish, too, it makes her want to back sooner. Not sure what that one would weigh but they all went 19 to the 22 inch mark and were fat and healthy.
This was also the maiden voyage for our new dually we bought to go under our Arctic Fox 990 slide in camper. We had a SRW truck last year and the camper is heavy enough we felt we needed to step up to a dually. I am really glad we did because it was a nice drive instead of the white nuckle drive I had with the SRW truck.
This was also the maiden voyage for our new dually we bought to go under our Arctic Fox 990 slide in camper. We had a SRW truck last year and the camper is heavy enough we felt we needed to step up to a dually. I am really glad we did because it was a nice drive instead of the white nuckle drive I had with the SRW truck.
