opelmanta1900 wrote:What the what? In mammoth??? That's rough fishing... was there a big mosquito hatch or lots of anglers around?
Crowley, on a pontoon with the entire group, plenty of boats all over the lake...we tried a few of our usual hotspots...
shore fishing at Lake Mary and Gull Lake...lotsa people fishing, not many catching...
the area re-opened about a week before, so there was a lotta pressure...who knows whether any of the lakes were planted recently...we were thinking there'd be plenty of holdover pre-pandemic fish...
used inflated crawlers, salmon eggs, rat-tails, power bait, gold Kastmasters and bronze Thomas Bouyants...
even my son, a die-hard fisherman, was discouraged and defeated by the skunks we caught...