Fish Catching Travel
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The boss and I have been cruising around East Texas and Louisiana the last 5 days, spending some time together before I head out to Canada. We had a great time but now it is time to really start getting my stuff together for the big trip.
Shoedog has spent the last few days getting his lake boat ready for the long haul to Canada. Replacing a trolling motor, new battery, new spare, the usual required for an extended trip. But he is ready, and I will be after Monday. From there it will be off on Thursday for the 2 day drive.
Lots of folks find it hard to believe we make that long haul, but for us it just part of the whole thing. By doing that we have our own boat, plenty of good eats, and enough tackle to open a tackle store. With so many fishing situations it takes lots of stuff. We fish light line walleye, crappie, assorted techniques for smallmouth, pike fishing, and of course our main quarry this trip, muskie. We will be trolling, casting, both day and night. It would be so much easier to fly, but there is no way we could get everything we need on a plane. Heck we fill a truck and boat with stuff. So the countdown really begins.
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Here is a couple of pics from our offshore trip. Chris sent these to me the other day..
Terry said our bad luck stemmed from my “banana” colored yellow shirt. That may have been somewhat true, I did eat a banana on the way to POC.
Zipping along pushed by a couple of 225 Honda 4 strokes. That World Cat was an awesome ride.
Not sure if this was going or coming but we saw it both ways.
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The other day I posted that the bass were schooling good on Bastrop and I got another first person report. I met a tackle rep at Cabela’s the other day and he said it had been awesome. So if you get a chance to head that way do it, the average size is pretty good and there is not many times of the year we get that type of bass fishing. As it is an early bite be on the water at daylight.
I also got a really good report on Fayette from Randy, one of my readers. As usual this time of year when you find them there can be a pretty good school of them. In fact they caught a mess, then went to the truck to cool off and headed back out and worked the area again, and once they found them it was game back on. So our area fishing is heating up and looks like we may get a small break from the heat.
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That clears up a few odds and ends. Tomorrow morning it will be a quick trip to Coleto to put a few bass in the boat. The secondary reason is to drain a spare 6 gallon tank on the Skiff to add to our never ending pile headed to Canada. We always take a spare tank with us to Canada as Lake of the Woods is a monster. 65,000 mile of shoreline and 15,000 islands, you can get way out there and we never want gas to be an issue. Plus after I fish in the morning it will be time to go through all the tackle and rods in the boat and finalize what will head to Canada. And of course every reel will get new line, all part of the prep. So stop in tomorrow for my last report before we take off. Once we start fishing next Saturday there will be reports and pictures everyday. So keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.
Good Luck and Tight Lines
