Nov 8 Outting

Went out with Jerry and Poalo

It's always a blast when the 3 of us get out and this time was no different.

It was a great day to be on the water and we saw many a boat musky fishing.

We trolled up to this one boat with 3 guys in it and one of these guys had his rod bent over and was fighting a big fish. His gear must have been too light for musky fishing because after a long fight the fish let go and they told us they didn't even get to see this fish.

I mentioned to Paolo that I got a fish in this spot at 11:45 lat time we were out.

Well at 11:55 very close to the same spot my rod went off. When I grabbed the rod there was a great head shake and the fish did a dolphin dive then came back up and gave us a spectacular tail dance.

A nice chunky 36.

That was the only fish for the day but not our only adventure

October 23, 2009

Went out with Jerry and trolled the Rideau.

We launched at 10 am and headed towards the 416 bridge.

Weather was really nice, not too much wind and water was 45 Deg.

Not much was happening until 11:45 am when trolling a depth raider in 12 FOW at 4.5 mph when my rod went off. I picked up the rod and felt 2 nice head shakes and then that was it. She came in easy but got pretty pissed at being netted. In the interest of not getting any hooks into my hands I cut all of the hooks off of my depth raider.

She was a scrappy 33 inches.

We did several passes under the 416 bridge and came up empty. We trolled down to the wall. We had agreed to fish until 3 pm when at 2:45 pm my rod went off again. This time it was a believer but same depth and same speed.

I picked up my rod and she gave me head shakes all of the way to the boat. She fought like a much bigger fish. Again, not a big fish but a fish non the less.

Really nice 35 inches.