So I got the fishing gift all anglers want on father's day, a long time out on the water fishing! Well, at least that's the gift I asked for and got it... I hooked up at 9:00 with cpguy29 (Jeff) at West Shore Marina, got in his boat and took off in search of some big fish with big teeth. Let me tell you, trying to chuck big bait on that lake is a heck of a task! especially when trying to fish with a new baitcaster... the weather was good but I was dressed for a much warmer day but I was out fishing with a new friend so it didn't matter.
Spot 1, no luck we chucked big spinners all a long the line with no takers other then some OOS bass that never should have been hitting those spinners.
Spot 2, same as spot one but the OOS bass are getting much bigger. Still no follows from any musky or none that I had seen.
Spot 3, hummm, a lot like spot's 1 and 2 but wait, a glimmer of hope! I rather large musky jumps out of the water about 150/200 yards away, yippee, let's go get em! We slowly make our way over to where I point out to Jeff and fish it hard. Oh yeah I'm thinking I'm pumped my fist musking is my father's day gift from the fishing God's.... no such luck...
So we decide to move closer to the marina and that's when the rains came. I way under dressed sat in the back of Jeff's boat shivering like a child as he was doing his best to get us back as dry as we could be. Lucky me got to use Jeff as a shield for part of the way as he was protected by the console. We got back to the marina, tied the boat up and then thought, huh, it's not raining let's try and get back out! Just as we got to where we wanted to fish the wall of rain started chasing us down again so we called it a day.
At the end of it all, we fished together from 9 AM to 3:30 (or so) PM and had a fun day out on the water. Sorry for not posting any pic's but the perch were decent size and the bass were all to camera shy as they were OOS still. I very much look forward to my next outing with Jeff, aka cpguy29. Thanks Jeff I had a blast! A bit sun burnt but still a great day out on the water with a new friend.
Cheer!
Geoff