Plowjock's Year End Report
Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2015 12:00 pm
March.. really upset with global warming, boat stayed in Garage all month, normally on Mississippi by late March...one month lost of fishing time.
April.. Hit the Mississippi a few times, found a few small crappies towards end of month. Still cold water temps, not much action.
May... Action started heating up, once pike and walter season opened up. Once we found the eyes it was game on... shaky heads and dinner.
Found many cooperative eyes, many over the slot limit and many more under the slot. Got around to using jerk baits to get their attention, and that we did.
Have to say, the Mississippi is in good shape for eyes and many other species.
June... Lake trout... my karma is missing these beauties. Only a few years ago had a magnificent opening day with over 30 over the gunnels. This year nada, zilch.
Thank goodness bass season opened in June and the fun began, between chasing green friends, brown buddies and walters.
Kept busy lifting fish over the gunnels with frogs doing good damage to many finned green friends.
Drop shot also invited more of my good brown buddies into the Lund Fury, with an odd good sized walter coming to visit.
July and August, slowed down because of the heat, but by end of August, had a few more good days out tossing a frog in the rice.
September, rested waiting for cooler temps and more active larger fishy friends.
October.... GAME ON cut the number of rods down in the boat to only 4. All had jerk baits tied on, and RJ, Brad, Norm, Trevor, Pete and Zeke, know what has happened.
Since Thanksgiving weekend saturday until today, 511 fish have crossed over the gunnels. Many large Mouth bass and crappies with my first 6 ..14 inch crappies caught and released, mostly on the jerk baits, slow long pauses and feel the hit of a giant crappie, just like a bass.
Then there was the odd occasional trip to search for ginormous small mouth bass, which did occur with my PB on Zeke's scales of 5.6 lbs.
The season continues until water is too stiff for Lund to break through. As Yogi used to say," it's not over til it's over."
I hope to be soft water fishing up to Dec. 15, end of Bass season.
April.. Hit the Mississippi a few times, found a few small crappies towards end of month. Still cold water temps, not much action.
May... Action started heating up, once pike and walter season opened up. Once we found the eyes it was game on... shaky heads and dinner.
Found many cooperative eyes, many over the slot limit and many more under the slot. Got around to using jerk baits to get their attention, and that we did.
Have to say, the Mississippi is in good shape for eyes and many other species.
June... Lake trout... my karma is missing these beauties. Only a few years ago had a magnificent opening day with over 30 over the gunnels. This year nada, zilch.
Thank goodness bass season opened in June and the fun began, between chasing green friends, brown buddies and walters.
Kept busy lifting fish over the gunnels with frogs doing good damage to many finned green friends.
Drop shot also invited more of my good brown buddies into the Lund Fury, with an odd good sized walter coming to visit.
July and August, slowed down because of the heat, but by end of August, had a few more good days out tossing a frog in the rice.
September, rested waiting for cooler temps and more active larger fishy friends.
October.... GAME ON cut the number of rods down in the boat to only 4. All had jerk baits tied on, and RJ, Brad, Norm, Trevor, Pete and Zeke, know what has happened.
Since Thanksgiving weekend saturday until today, 511 fish have crossed over the gunnels. Many large Mouth bass and crappies with my first 6 ..14 inch crappies caught and released, mostly on the jerk baits, slow long pauses and feel the hit of a giant crappie, just like a bass.
Then there was the odd occasional trip to search for ginormous small mouth bass, which did occur with my PB on Zeke's scales of 5.6 lbs.
The season continues until water is too stiff for Lund to break through. As Yogi used to say," it's not over til it's over."
I hope to be soft water fishing up to Dec. 15, end of Bass season.
