Our Last Day on the Water For Six Months
Jamie and I managed to get out for one more day on the water before fishing season ended for 2009. Well ended in the areas we fish. Thanks for the great fun this Jamie, let’s do it again some time.
The spots we fishing in at Chipman have some the best scenery and has to be one of our favorite places to fish pickerel. It’s fun to get there right at the end of the season as some times we get the biggest and badest pickerel of the year at that time.
I got up at about 5am and we planned on leaving about 6 so we would get there before day break. I was hoping to get a few images of mist on the water but all we got was rain on the water.
There was a low pressure system moving through which tends to shut the fishing down and that seemed to be the case for the day.
The temperature was perfect and the rain stopped after an hour or so and the wind stayed away. I started to feel a little better about the fishing as the water was becoming like glass.
It wasn’t until after I got home and saw some of the pictures we took. I am sure my apparel had them in stitches or maybe they were just blinded by it.
When I finally landed a pickerel I am sure I heard it laughing and saying something like ‘Hey, your mamma dresses you funny.‘
Well it could have been Jamie saying that under his breath though.
It took a long while before they started to move, perhaps it had something to do with the water temperature being so low. They probably didn’t want to get out from under their blanket of weeds.
By about 9 am I started to get a little action but they were avoiding Jamie. I had a few turn for the offering but that’s about all.
I had slowed the retreive to almost a crawl hoping they would get some life but nothing was happening. Then I decided to pull the plastic worm at high speed.
It was pretty cool. I saw a huge mouth coming straight at me but it was too far away and the bait was too close to the canoe before he arrived.
Instantly we were pulling the baits through the water much faster and starting to see a bit more movement.
I guess they just had to stop laughing long enough to start chasing our baits.
Any day on the water is better than a day away from the water so I am already looking forward to opening day 2010.
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It was certainly fun to get out one last time. Already looking forward to next year to continue pickerel fishing and to do more bass fishing.
Yeah we have to get some big bass fishing in next year. I am already looking for places that are good and closer to us, so we can fish more and longer.
It would be good to do a little more fly fishing for pickerel and bass. That would take our experience to the next level I am sure. I think I need to buy a new fly rod, maybe two of them. One for areas we get smaller fish and another for those places monsters live.