weekend report
Posted: Sun Jul 30, 2006 8:05 am
Saturday July 29
I took my neighbour and his son fishing, this was a real treat for me because they don't get to fish much from a boat so it's fun to be able to take someone out who would find fishing from a boat a thrill.
My neighbour wanted to fish the Kemptville creek and I am always open to trying new spot so off we went at 7am Saturday morning.
Well it was hot so I suspected the fishing might be slow. I also found myself with a couple of people who wanted me to teach them some techniques but they were only set up for bass. I am not much of a seasoned bass fisherman, I know how to fish them with spinnerbiats but that's pretty much it so I wasn't a whole heck of a great mentor with these guys throwing stuff into the slop. I didn't get them to use my big lures because their tackle just would be able to handle it.
A couple of hours of having them throw skum frogs and mice into the slop while I fished the outside I finaly got into my 1st fish of the day. It was amazing, my lure hit the water and before it submerged and before I could begin my retrieve I saw a huge attack, I must have hit it on the head and scared it into striking. Brought it in, a nice scrappy and healthy 30 incher.
At least we weren't going to get skunked for the day. We ran into other people fishing bass and they said is was a hard day to fish. A very short time later I got another strike. This was the 1st time I had ever seen a pike jump out of the water horizontaly, I have had many pike this year go air born on my but never have I seen a fish fly horizontaly before, and he went far too. Another scrappy pike, this time only 26 1/2 inches.
A question comes to mind with this fish. It had completely swallowed my lure, a brand new 1st time in the water $15 lure, and I had to take out the bolt cutters and vertualy destroy the lure in order to save the fish, the fish lives and my brand new lure is destroyed, how many others would do the same?
Sunday July 30
Made arrangements the day before to go out with kpin but he never showed up so the only report I have for Sunday is NONE.
Way to go kpin
I took my neighbour and his son fishing, this was a real treat for me because they don't get to fish much from a boat so it's fun to be able to take someone out who would find fishing from a boat a thrill.
My neighbour wanted to fish the Kemptville creek and I am always open to trying new spot so off we went at 7am Saturday morning.
Well it was hot so I suspected the fishing might be slow. I also found myself with a couple of people who wanted me to teach them some techniques but they were only set up for bass. I am not much of a seasoned bass fisherman, I know how to fish them with spinnerbiats but that's pretty much it so I wasn't a whole heck of a great mentor with these guys throwing stuff into the slop. I didn't get them to use my big lures because their tackle just would be able to handle it.
A couple of hours of having them throw skum frogs and mice into the slop while I fished the outside I finaly got into my 1st fish of the day. It was amazing, my lure hit the water and before it submerged and before I could begin my retrieve I saw a huge attack, I must have hit it on the head and scared it into striking. Brought it in, a nice scrappy and healthy 30 incher.
At least we weren't going to get skunked for the day. We ran into other people fishing bass and they said is was a hard day to fish. A very short time later I got another strike. This was the 1st time I had ever seen a pike jump out of the water horizontaly, I have had many pike this year go air born on my but never have I seen a fish fly horizontaly before, and he went far too. Another scrappy pike, this time only 26 1/2 inches.
A question comes to mind with this fish. It had completely swallowed my lure, a brand new 1st time in the water $15 lure, and I had to take out the bolt cutters and vertualy destroy the lure in order to save the fish, the fish lives and my brand new lure is destroyed, how many others would do the same?
Sunday July 30
Made arrangements the day before to go out with kpin but he never showed up so the only report I have for Sunday is NONE.
Way to go kpin
