New for 2010

I would have to say that for the first time I am happy with the finished product.

Here are the new Mr.J. Specials for 2010.

Victoria Day Cats

Nothing like an actual nice Victoria day long weekend. I took Josh, Paolo, Joe and Joe’s son out for some Ottawa cats.

It was really hot. We anchored off of the rapids in 10 FOW and we were quickly into some monsters.

I couldn’t believe how big these cats were and the fight was on.

Josh won the day with the most cats and the biggest of the day too.

Saturday May 15 first outing of 2010

Went out with Jerry for some spring pike. Shall I say this again? We typically never do well in the spring but hey at least we are out and trying.

I always thought the Kemptville creek would produce so we headed straight there. I am still so impressed with my new boat. She runs so nice and she really likes to go full throttle and we made the creek in no time.

I got to try out the new electric and to wash some new lures too. Jerry had a couple of splash fish show him some interest but other than that is was anything but exciting. Surprisingly we ran into 2 other boats but they weren’t fishing.

I suggested we hit the wall and off we went. We got stuck behind this cruiser that was throwing wake so big behind her and we tried to pass but it just was not a wise thing to do. Jerry said she was going to Hurst Marina and he was bang on. When she throttle down I looked at the creek across from Hurst Marina and said we should hit it.

In about a 1/2 hour I got 2 OOS bass and 2 pike. Both snott rockets but all 4 fish were on my new lures. 2 on white top water (what a blast) and 1 on a green with Colorado blades and 1 black with Willow leaf blades.

The second pike hit so hard and fought so hard I have to admit I was afraid I got an OOS musky but instead I got some kind of freak. This thing was beaten up badly and I really didn’t want to touch it. Believe it or not this picture is of it’s good side.

Funny but Jerry had one on and lost it plus a follow plus another grab his lure when he wasn’t holding his rod all within a 1/2 hour and a 1/2 hour later my fishing watch beeped. I’m going to pay attention to my new fishing watch.

Spring Cats Sun Apr 24 2010

April 24 we headed out to get into some catfish. The wind was blowing us pretty hard and we couldn’t get the anchor to bite so we found a spot out of the wind and got the anchor to bite.

Using good old fashion shrimp Paolo started to put on a clinic and started the day off with a real fatty.

That's one more than we usually get this early in the year. Water was over 50 deg and we were anchored in 23 FOW.

Paolo gets another and then another.

Then things started to even up for both Jerry and I and in about 3 1/2 hours we boated 12 fish.

At 4:00 pm we decided one more fish then we would head home. At 4:15 this was the last for the day.

One of best spring cat outings.