TO Islands Report

[Bitsmith2k]

Got out Sunday with a buddy from work for some pike action.. Had a bit of a delay trying to find a route down there due to the race that was going on but finally made it..

 

My buddy's never caught a pike before, and I've never caught anything besides one OOS bass there last year.. So my expectations weren't high..

 

We started working our way around the canals, buddy gets ahead of me and as i come around the corner he's got a little one on.. got it to shore before his xrap popped out.. Damn!.. a few minutes later he's got another one on that spit the lure out.. so now he's lost two, and i havent had as much as a follow yet.. we kept walking and casting, finally he gets another one on.. i got down to the water to land it for him..

 

 

worked our way to the opposite side of the channel and he hooks into this guy

 

 

then

 

 

and his last fish of the day:

 

 

I ended up getting a whack of follows on a #5 Mepps, but no takers i only hooked into one smallish pike only after taking the leader off my line.. well you can guess what happend.. the bloody fish snapped me off and took my favourite xrap.. then had the nerve to keep cruising by, not taking a look at the spinner that i tossed out imediately afterwards..

 

my apologies for the image's he wanted the backgrounds semi blocked out..

 

all and all a good day for him.. the only thing i caught was a mean sunburn.. i guess there's always next weekend..

 

he caught everything on the xrap, working it painfully slow..

 

on the plus side i got to break in the Abu 5600 that i picked up this week, and am quite fond of it..

[ccmtcanada]

Sounded like great action out there! You went out with low expectations and saw LOTS of fish. Glad to hear you like your new Abu....going fishing is never a waste of time in my opinion!

[ehg]

Nice bunch of pike. There is many bigger ones there as well.

Had a similar day follows on spinners one taker on slow worked jerkbait.

Many follows in a short time.

Good luck next time.

 

ehg