froggyI don’t want to mention Jamie’s name as it might be a little embarrassing so I won’t.

So, I was fishing with this guy, “NO NAMES”, and we were catching a few bass and pickerel, very few for some.

All in all though it was a pretty good day.

We came to this great looking spot that was calling to us so ‘the guy in the canoe with me’ decided to grab his second rod and use this new segmented frog that had a spinning legs.

This frog looked real and the segmented body gave it such presence in the water as it beat it’s way back to the canoe. Very sexy frog.

It had already shown it’s ability to attract predators, bass and pickerel.

So, ‘this guy’ puts his rod together snapped that little frog on there good and made one cast to a lily pad about 30 feet from the canoe. A big mamma pickerel, bigger than my little 24 1/4” pickerel, came flying out of the water, her entire body was airborne and smacks that little frog.

This pickerel knows a tasty treat when she sees one so she decides to get out of there with her dinner.

 

She shot out of there so fast all I heard was twang like a guitar string snapping and she was gone. Sadly with that brand spankin’ new froggy.

I guess I should have taken a picture of that frog although it was the spitting image of the frog in the top left corner of this post.

The lesson on this fishing trip is to give the drag a testing before casting to a potential pickerel hangout. And to be fair to ‘the guy in the canoe with me’ I’ve done exactly the same thing so it was  a good reminder for me without the pain.


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