I learned from my brother "da PRO" many moons ago to swap out treble hooks for single hooks on crank bait lures. I borrowed this same concept and swapped out trebles hooks for single hooks on trout spinners!
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| Will these work?!? |
Of course, WizTech and I had the Miracle Squad with us, so we must setup regular fishing poles for them to catch fish while I experimented.
We left home at 7 AM, had breakfast at 8 AM in Valley Springs, and arrived at our destination at 11 AM. Note that the breakfast time could be shorter for the next trip.
I went to our favorite spot at the Upper Mosquito Lake and tossed in four poles for the group. Immediately, it was fish on! Mrs. Miracles and the kids had a blast landing fish after fish. By 11:30 AM, we had our first limit! These were between 11 and 13 inches!
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| Master Fisherman displaying the first limit! |
The next limit came at 11:30 AM.... Awesome! Compared to the fish at Loon Lake from last week, the smallest fish from Mosquito was equal to the biggest from Loon!
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| WizTech with the second limit @ 11:30 AM. |
At 1 PM, there was a big hit on one of the poles and the Monk set the hook and landed the biggest fish of the day: a 14 incher!
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| Let me show you how to hold it! |
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| Like this? |
From noon to 2:30 PM, the bites slowed down tremendously and winds picked up. We managed another three and packed up to head down the mountain.
JU's Experiment
I went between Upper and Lower Mosquito Lakes with lures to entice some trout. At Upper I had three hookups, but only managed to land one on the Thomas Buoyant at 12:30 PM. This was consistent when using single hook: more difficult to land fish. |
| This 12 incher fell for the Thomas. |
I proceeded to the Lower Mosquito to try out my new rigs: the spinners with single hooks. I never had success with Panther Martin spinners in the past. So I tried this first, the smallest of the spinners on the right hand side from the first picture.
I found a stream running into the Lake. About 10 feet away was a big boulder sticking out 3 feet above the lake surface. This was deep beautiful clear water. First cast with the Panther: Fish on!!! Tornado, what the heck swallowed the lure? The drag from my fishing reel screamed! My pole bent over! I knew it was a big fish because my drag was set in such a way that only a big 3 pounder at least could have pulled it out! On yeah, baby, the fish surfaced. This confirmed my intuition. I have never caught anything big like this before with a Panther. From a distance of 15 feet, I could tell, it was not a rainbow trout, looked more like a brown trout. I didn't think any big fish like this existed in this little Mosquito Lake!!! Then it happened. The fish went left toward the big boulder 10 feet away. I tried raising my pole high and herding the fish away, but it wouldn't have it. Behind the boulder it went. Within seconds after that, my line broke :-( When I got my line back, it was frayed badly by the boulder where it broke!
Trout 1, JU 0!
Unfortunately, since this was an experiment, I did not bring another Panther like the one I lost. Thus, I tied on the second rig, the white with red dots lure in the middle of the the first picture. Before using it, I moved it back and forth in front of me to make sure that the blade was spinning properly. I was satisfied.
First cast with new rig, fish on again. Not as big as the first. No drag screaming, but hey, fish on, baby! Within a few seconds, fish off :-( For the next hour, I had a total 5 hook ups. They fought for a few seconds each, then fish off. My conclusion was that the single hook on the snap swivel somehow enabled the fish to shake off easy. No need for me to try out the last lure because it also had a single hook on the snap swivel.
Trout 5, JU 0!
I can't wait for the next time. I will modify the single hook to be on the double split rings like I did with the Thomas Buoyant!
Video Section
For now I will leave you the following two videos featuring Master Fisherman (Age 11) and "little j" (Age 7).
Master Fisherman had a dancing technique to catching fish.
"little j" was more serious when it comes to landing fish.
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