Cooks bay perchin' report

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It seems that it is slowly becoming a tradition that every year my buddy and I rent a hut on Cooks bay and take some people ice fishing. This year the guest was my buddies girlfriend who had never fished a day in her life before. So as gentlemanly conduct dictates, I lent her my best rod with a spring bobber tip and my flasher with a little bit of instruction to ensure that she would have a great day of fishing.

 

I think its pretty safe to say she did. She brought a novel she has been working on for when she figured she would get bored. She didn’t end up writing a single word the entire day.

I think gentlemanly conduct also dictates that when you bring your buddy fishing you’re supposed to let him catch the biggest fish.

 

 

A nice 10 inch perch. Biggest one of the day.

 

And he’s supposed to catch fish you have never caught before.

 

 

 

 

 

 

The bugger ended up getting 2 monster herring. I’ve never even seen one before and he gets two. His girlfriend also ended up getting 1 but she didn’t want to touch it, it was able to shake the hook, bounce off the ice shed and escape through the hole before we were able to get a picture.

 

End of the day she had 59 perch and one herring.

I had 48 perch

And my buddy had 36 perch and 2 herring.

 

I love cooks bay.

[Joeytier]

I can't believe you kept count! Good job dude

 

I caught two herring on Nip today that were twice those size...gonna try pickling them.

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Ha ha thanks. Yeah she wanted to keep track to have a 'fishing derby'. Kept her entertained so it was cool.

 

Wish we were allowed to keep the herring on simcoe but sadly no dice. Bet they would have been good to eat too.