I've been frustrated this week. I live in zone 18 of the Ontario Fishing areas and most of the places I love to fish nearby are "Fish Sanctuary's" until the Friday before the 2nd Saturday in May (so basically the 13th of May ....why they don't just put a DATE down instead of making people pulling out the calendars and calculating it all is beyond me). At least my faves will be open for my Birthday on the 18th...that will be a mid week fishing party let me tell ya :)With 1 sick son and 1 sick husband at home (battling some kind of virus/flu for what seems like forever now) I packed up my youngest and headed out to the same location as last week-end (knew it wasn't a sanctuary...and heck a chance at another Pike is always welcome) in Smiths Falls at Slys Lock. It was GORGEOUS out..20 degrees, sunny and just a welcome change to all the rain we've had lately. I would have been happy to land anything...the beauty of the day made a small fishing outing a welcome change to being in my basement working away :)
I decided to start with the lure that landed my pike last week-end...what the heck...sometimes luck strikes twice! It soon was obvious the water was too murky for my green slide Shad Rap...and I moved onto some coloured and silver vintage spoons that I'd taken from Hubbies tackle box before I left (with permission of course :) The medium White and Red spoon I put on the end of my line brought something large to the surface and I yelped in letdown as I saw this fish turn at the last minute and go back down (it was least a 15" something..only caught a glimps of the whiten silver underbelly as it turned at the last moment).
About 40 minutes in...2 young boys (12 or so) showed up to fish as well. I started chatting with the more outgoing of the 2 (think he was shocked to see a lady out fishing while her child played in the park catching bugs) . He recounted his 2 big catches of 7lb pikes at this location in the fall and how it recharged him to start avidly fishing again! After watching the boys and their LARGE silver spoons..I decided to changed to a smaller vintage silver spoon and all of a sudden the bites started coming, but I wasn't landing anything.
Finally after 70 minutes of almost bites and tugs with no landings..I felt that harder tug of something that actually was attached to my line...I knew it was small..but I was happy to have SOMETHING. When I finally pulled this guy out of the water it was a good size ROCK BASS..I say good size..he (and I use the term HE liberally...I just refer to all my catches as he/him..hmm..what does that say...lol) he was 10.8 inches..good for a rock bass! Took him in..got my pictures and release the poor guy right away! Alright for a nice sunny Saturday...got some sun (someone asked me today if I was tanning on the week-end...gotta love that outdoor fishing GLOW), spent sometime with my awesome little man.. got a fish (that I can apply for the ontarioanglerawards.com with....see my next post about this awesome site)..all and all a FANTASTIC Saturday!
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