Open Water Christmas Perchin' & Hockey!

[The Urban Fisherman]

Well it seems like hockey has taken over my life, which is one of the main reason you haven’t seen any reports from me lately! All three of the kids are playing this year, and I’m coaching the beginners, which means 6-7 ice times per week! Oh yeah, and we live 35 minutes from the arena..

Claira was pumped to finally start at the ripe old age of 3. haha She’s far and away the smallest kid on the ice but is doing well and having a ton of fun.

 

 

 

 

Lukes finally had a chance to play some real games and is pumped about that.

 

 

 

And Averie is rocking’ it… she started 3 years late but is quickly catching up to the rest of the players. She’s the only girl on her team and has no trouble keeping up with the boys.

 

 

We’ve even had a chance to catch some OHL action…

 

 

 

 

 

Onto some fishing.

Averie and I tried to sneak in some late season action on the bay, but had some engine troubles and ended up stranded on the lake. Lucky for us my wife’s cousins were just around the corner hunting and were able to tow us back to the marina.

 

 

 

 

After that we decided to pack up the boat and call it a soft water season. Take it as a sign that it was over for the year. After all, the marina had already started to freeze over shortly after.

 

 

Faster forward past far to many trips to the arena and it had now become Spring in December, with no ice to be seen for miles.… It was going to be a green Christmas in Port Rowan.

 

 

 

Averie and I took this as another sign… we should dig out the boat and hit up some late, late season perch.

 

 

After going back and forth on the idea of re-rigging the graph on the boat we finally opted to take the time to do it. ( we had taken it off and set it up for some ice fishing lol ) It’s a good thing we did because we ended up fishing schools of perch in 22-32 FOW. We’d literally zig-zag around with the electric, with our baits out of the water until we found the school sitting right on bottom. Then we’d quickly drop our baits right on their heads and BAM… fish on! We even managed a couple of double headers. It was a bit breezy so by the time we’d reel the fish up, take it off and re-rig we’d have blown 15-20 yards and have to start the process all over again. It was like playing a video game, but worked well and was a heck of a fun way to cap off our 2014 soft water season.

 

 

 

 

 

The boat is officially put away until spring!

 

 

We wish you all the best in 2015!!!!

 

Cheers,

 

Ryan & family.

 

ps. GO CANADA GO! ( World Juniors )

Edited December 29, 2014 by The Urban Fisherman

[Musky or Specks]

First she's putfishin all the boys next thing you know she'll be out scoring them all.

[Terry]

real great

but

I thought it was 10hp max for under 12 boaters license

[The Urban Fisherman]

First she's putfishin all the boys next thing you know she'll be out scoring them all.

 

Yep...she's quickly becoming better then me at everything. lol

 

real great

but

I thought it was 10hp max for under 12 boaters license

 

Only if they're un-supervised.

 

 

Pasted from the BOATsmart website:

 

Age Power Restrictions

 

Under 12 years of age, and not directly supervised Can operate vessels with under 10 hp

 

Between 12 years and under 16 years of age,and not directly supervised Can operate vessels with under 40 hp

 

Under 16 years of age Not allowed to operate a PWC

 

16 years of age and over No power restrictions

Edited December 29, 2014 by The Urban Fisherman

[Terry]

dang, and here I told the kids no

good to know

wait

 

the kids that were with me we under 12 so if I read it right they still couldn't do it

 

but good to know

[The Urban Fisherman]

Averie is 8, and is allowed to operate a boat under 40HP with me, and under 10HP alone...

[Old Ironmaker]

I'm available for adoption. Please PM me for specifics, I come with a 19' Starcraft with a 115 Merc and all tackle needed for the elbow, plus a newer 4X4 for trips to the arena or lake. However I need skates and will need skating lessons please. I have my beginers Dad.

 

edit. my wife says she will take me every other weekend, sometimes.

Edited December 30, 2014 by Old Ironmaker