Scott Hammer TOXIC
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I just couldn't take it. The hot side really punk slapped me Saturday so I decided to go out yesterday since I had the day off. Of course the forcast was cold and winds 15-20. I never try and let the weather dictate my fishing but that's a lot easier to do when you have the right gear. Kudos to BPS and their 100mph suit, it is well worth the $$ (more on that in a sec). Got to the ramp and the winds howling 2+ footers rolling into the ramp and docks. Before I can get the boat off the trailer I have waves crahing over the back deck!! Unload and get over to the docks and remember that they just got rebuilt and there are no cleats on them yet!! Yikes!! Luckily (I thought), the lake is about a foot low right now so the posts under the docks are exposed a little. I thought I would just wrap my dock line around one of the posts and to a cleat on the boat. Sounds like a good plan eh? Well, I'm watching the waves roll in and I think I've got it timed right, so I reach around the post with both arms (can you see where I am going here...) and I just about make it when a wave rolls in and pitches the the boat under the dock and it comes up full force on both of my arms. Boy howdy let me tell you that hurts!! I actually thought I broke my right arm but it still moved only in the direction it was designed!!
I had a good day. I decided to pick apart Elk Creek (since Bill wouldn't give up his honey hole). Caught them on Little John crank, BPS Jerkbait, Senko (of course) and a shakey head rigged with a Yamamoto Pro Style worm. Still couldn't put together a bag that would have ousted Team No Guilt (Sabin/Hamilton) but I probably caught 40 fish.
Now about that 100mph suit. I had to withstand rain, wind and cold all day which was fine but in the afternoon, just about quittin time, I am in a cove at the mouth of Elk Creek and I look out to see some pretty dark clouds rolling in. I raise the hood and get ready for some heavier rain. Off in the distance, I hear what sounds like a jet flying super low.....it gets louder, and louder, and all of a sudden I realize it ain't no jet, it's the wind approaching!! I look out and see a wall of wind and rain coming down the lake. I didn't have time to do anything but hold on and when it got to me I swear there were 50-60 mph winds and raining so hard I couldn't see 20 feet in front of the boat. Almost lost some rods because the wind picked them up and tossed them on the front deck. The boat filled up with leaves that the wind pulled from the ground in the cove!! What was really neat was that right before the front hit, all of a sudden the water started smoking due to the really cold air pushed by the front and some sleet pellets fell. It's a good thing it passed because I could not have gotten the boat trailered in that type of wind!! About 10 minutes of chaos and it was all over and the sun came out!!! I was bone dry!!....and Warm!! Other than a really sore and swollen right forearm from the dock, it was a great day.
TOXIC
I had a good day. I decided to pick apart Elk Creek (since Bill wouldn't give up his honey hole). Caught them on Little John crank, BPS Jerkbait, Senko (of course) and a shakey head rigged with a Yamamoto Pro Style worm. Still couldn't put together a bag that would have ousted Team No Guilt (Sabin/Hamilton) but I probably caught 40 fish.
Now about that 100mph suit. I had to withstand rain, wind and cold all day which was fine but in the afternoon, just about quittin time, I am in a cove at the mouth of Elk Creek and I look out to see some pretty dark clouds rolling in. I raise the hood and get ready for some heavier rain. Off in the distance, I hear what sounds like a jet flying super low.....it gets louder, and louder, and all of a sudden I realize it ain't no jet, it's the wind approaching!! I look out and see a wall of wind and rain coming down the lake. I didn't have time to do anything but hold on and when it got to me I swear there were 50-60 mph winds and raining so hard I couldn't see 20 feet in front of the boat. Almost lost some rods because the wind picked them up and tossed them on the front deck. The boat filled up with leaves that the wind pulled from the ground in the cove!! What was really neat was that right before the front hit, all of a sudden the water started smoking due to the really cold air pushed by the front and some sleet pellets fell. It's a good thing it passed because I could not have gotten the boat trailered in that type of wind!! About 10 minutes of chaos and it was all over and the sun came out!!! I was bone dry!!....and Warm!! Other than a really sore and swollen right forearm from the dock, it was a great day.
TOXIC
