Saturday Jamie and I headed out for an afternoon and evening of fishing fun and pickerel and maybe a bass or two. The pickerel were there but I didn’t see any bass to be had.

Every river, stream or body of water we passed had us looking to see how high or low the water was. We remembered last year the water was extremely high.

It didn’t surprise us much when we arrived to see that the water level was pretty average for this time of year as we had a big melt off early March before the weather turned cold again for another month.

I decided that it would be great to try a couple of spots I had shown Jamie last year for the first time. I showed him those spots in the last season when most of the area was dried up from a long summer.

Today though I would just like to show you a couple of pictures of the water we were fishing and I will leave what we caught for another day.

where-did-the-river-go

This little cove looks like one big cove right now. You can’t even see where the river is, it just all looks like the river. There were three boats just launching when we arrived so we didn’t stay here.

We just stopped here to see the water level was before moving on to the hot spots I wanted to take Jamie to.

watch-were-you-step

You can see that the water was still high enough to move up into the bush but that just makes for more fun spots to hook into a big fat pickerel, just watch the trees and branches still under the water. It makes it very challenging.

pickerel-heaven

The river in the foreground of this image was high but just on the other side of those trees is pickerel heaven. A great spot for those really windy days when it’s hard to control a canoe. Also a great place to fly fish for pickerel on windy days.

We could not have asked for a better day on the water. It was sunny, not overly windy and we were fishing, who could ask for more, right.


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