Fish Catching Travel
We are so stuck in this every couple of days cold front thing. Here it is Tuesday, it is 34 degrees with 22 mph wind straight out of the north, it is raining, and the wind chill is 22. Now I know all you folks up north are not impressed, but I thought when I moved this far south it would be flip flops and palm trees everyday. Of course when it is just to ugly to fish, I just want to go all the more.
I met J.T. at Toyota and in our conversation found out he liked to fish. So I promised to take him this week, and since I am heading to Baffin Thursday, and the weather looked sketchy today, Monday was the day. The real problem was this front, which was supposed to be here Monday. When we started out in the morning the wind was already blowing a little, but at least it was manageable.
Since I caught those couple of big girls Sunday we started with swim jigs. The best I can say about the fishing was it was slow, I mean real slow. It was just one here and one there for several hours. We just could not find a consistent pattern. The falling temps definitely had them moving back out of the coves. It was so windy that topwater was not an option, in fact no where on the main lake except for a couple of banks was it even possible to fish.
About 10:30 halfway back in a cove I had one slack line me and swim with it, I thought I got a good hook set, but it was not to be. She jumped about halfway back, and was a good 7+, maybe a little bigger, and she was gone. For the rest of the day we fished only where the wind would let us, which is never a great thing, especially since those places were not the best ones. JT gave it a valiant try. Never having fished a swim jig, the strikes yesterday were so subtle, he missed several before he finally boated his first and only fish. I put 5 in the boat, lost the big one, and missed maybe 2.
It was just plain tough. Even the ones who bit were not thumping it, the best you could hope for was to see your line move, or feel it go slack. They were not aggressive by any means. I have no doubt JT will get the hang of it, in fact depending on the weather tomorrow, we just might be back out there. We are entering the early pre-spawn period where those big girls are just waiting for any reason to move shallow. I love this time of year, which is why through crappy weather I keep going, you never know when it is going to happen, and be “that day”.
I am starting to get excited about Baffin Thursday. Looks like the wind may cooperate and the temperature looks good to. So it will be over the side we go, looking for that 25’+ trout. Gee – I do not have enough tackle, think I will head to Academy and buy another Corkie. You can never have enough stuff now can you? Thanks for reading my stuff.
Good Luck and Tight Lines
