Got the boat put in the water and shoved off around 10:00. Only used the electric motor so we weren't moving very fast. Trolled most of day, but stopped for casting at some choice looking spots. We finally figured out that the bass love dead trees that have fallen in the water, especially if the area is shady. Almost every spot we found like that the first or second cast into it they were onto the lure. We ended up catching about a dozen bass, one pike and a perch. Threw all the fish back today. I lost one of my best lures today as the bass swam right to my trolling motor and went around it twice. Then he swam away and broke the line. While that was going on another bass came up to the surface of the water and grabbed a worm Bonnie had been dragging in the water. She was untangling another fishing line and not watching the worm. The bass grabbed the worm and swam down into a brush pile so we couldn't get him either. You should have seen us scrambling to try and land those fish. Very frustrating (and emotional for Bob) to lose those 2 big bass plus a lure and a jig. I figure the bass that swam around the trolling motor has been snagged before and knew what he was doing. Bonnie caught 3 huge bass. She won the prize for the biggest fish a couple times today.
It was a chore to lift the boat and slide it into the back of the truck. We then had to lift the heavy items and put them in the boat before sliding the boat all the way into the truck. I imagine if someone had filmed us we would have been a funny looking twosome trying to manhandle the boat. It was a 14 foot boat. I think the next time we come up here we'll bring a 12 or 13 foot boat with us. Whatever is light and fits inside the 16 foot boat. A small 3 or 4 hp gas motor would have been nice too. Maybe Santa is listening!!
It was a chore to lift the boat and slide it into the back of the truck. We then had to lift the heavy items and put them in the boat before sliding the boat all the way into the truck. I imagine if someone had filmed us we would have been a funny looking twosome trying to manhandle the boat. It was a 14 foot boat. I think the next time we come up here we'll bring a 12 or 13 foot boat with us. Whatever is light and fits inside the 16 foot boat. A small 3 or 4 hp gas motor would have been nice too. Maybe Santa is listening!!
This is the biggest bass I caught today.
This was Bonnie's biggest bass.
Here is Bonnie holding another bass.
The next 2 pictures are of where the bass were hiding. One bass still has a green lure in its mouth!
By the way, when Ontario puts up a new STOP sign it looks like this.
Bonnie: It was fun to catch all of those bass, but there were not so fun moments--when the fishing line gets caught in the motor, when you start to pull a big fish into the boat and it jumps off the lure and back into the water (obviously, the hook is not set when that happens) and when you feel a pull on the line only to find you have a nice long weed.
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