Hit the Ottawa River with Jerry.
In a word it was HOT.
We hit Duck Island close to shore. We found the bait fish (with some aggressive perch attacking our lures) but not toothy critters to speak of.
With the heat we decided to troll.
“Lets hit Joe’s hump” was the obvious choice. Even the trolling was tough. There were boats everywhere and we even found ourselves being buzzed by seaplanes landing and taking off.
Thru half way in the day we got an eye full. Jerry said she was totally nude but all I could make out was a set of tits. Regardless it was pleasing to the eyes.
We headed around the west point of Duck Island when my rod went off. When I pulled it from the rod holder no one was home. I must have snagged bottom.
Around the point we went and headed over to Joe’s hump. As we were going from 25+ FOW and the rise to 13 FOW my rod went off and this time we knew for sure it was a fish.
She was a scrappy mid 30’s fish. It just wouldn’t calm down a tiny bit so I was very concerned about getting gill raked I put on a glove. The water temp was 80+ deg and the release was not a good one.
