frozenfire
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So, my sister has been asking me to take her fishing on the canoe for a while now.
Last week she went out to renew her license. She hasn't seriously fished before, just for fun while camping with friends. Figured this would be the perfect opportunity to get her hooked.
Even though the forecast called for light rain and slight winds, it seemed like an ideal day to go while we were still at home.
By the time we got to the lake, the skies had darkened and the wind picked up.
We launched and motored our way over to some fishable water.
I rigged her up with a 3" pink grub on a 1/4 oz jighead and she almost instantly landed a decent crappie...too bad it fell off the hook as it was being raised.
The weeds are EVERYWHERE. South end of Scugog is pretty choked up already. They started to frustrate her, so I then tied on a topwater so she could avoid most of the subsurface weeds.
I try to look for deeper pockets that were free of weeds. Ended close to the shoreline where it was very shallow, but was also free from weeds.
We started throwing some topwaters and she lands a small perch. Finally!
Fearing I would get skunked, I soon land a rockbass... followed by a few dink perch as well.
As we near the shoreline by the reeds, she tosses out her lure and watches as it wobbles back to the canoe. A feisty bass grabs it and the fight is on! Instinctively, she starts reeling in like no tomorrow. I tell her to take it easy and keep tension on the line! It comes to the boat and I unhook it for her.
Her biggest fish ever.
Right after her bass, I manage to catch a crappie about 2 feet away from shore. I was really surprised how shallow these fish were.
By now the rain had started to fall. I make a few quick casts towards some open water by a clump of weeds and managed to entice a bass to explode out of the water grabbing my lure.
Nothing huge, but at least we got into some fish for being out there only 1-1.5 hours.
Wind picked up big time and it started to pour. We were forced to head back.
On the way home, she said that she was glad we got into some fish, otherwise it would've been horrible.
Hopefully the next outing, I can get her into numbers.
Last week she went out to renew her license. She hasn't seriously fished before, just for fun while camping with friends. Figured this would be the perfect opportunity to get her hooked.
Even though the forecast called for light rain and slight winds, it seemed like an ideal day to go while we were still at home.
By the time we got to the lake, the skies had darkened and the wind picked up.
We launched and motored our way over to some fishable water.
I rigged her up with a 3" pink grub on a 1/4 oz jighead and she almost instantly landed a decent crappie...too bad it fell off the hook as it was being raised.
The weeds are EVERYWHERE. South end of Scugog is pretty choked up already. They started to frustrate her, so I then tied on a topwater so she could avoid most of the subsurface weeds.
I try to look for deeper pockets that were free of weeds. Ended close to the shoreline where it was very shallow, but was also free from weeds.
We started throwing some topwaters and she lands a small perch. Finally!
Fearing I would get skunked, I soon land a rockbass... followed by a few dink perch as well.
As we near the shoreline by the reeds, she tosses out her lure and watches as it wobbles back to the canoe. A feisty bass grabs it and the fight is on! Instinctively, she starts reeling in like no tomorrow. I tell her to take it easy and keep tension on the line! It comes to the boat and I unhook it for her.
Her biggest fish ever.
Right after her bass, I manage to catch a crappie about 2 feet away from shore. I was really surprised how shallow these fish were.
By now the rain had started to fall. I make a few quick casts towards some open water by a clump of weeds and managed to entice a bass to explode out of the water grabbing my lure.
Nothing huge, but at least we got into some fish for being out there only 1-1.5 hours.
Wind picked up big time and it started to pour. We were forced to head back.
On the way home, she said that she was glad we got into some fish, otherwise it would've been horrible.
Hopefully the next outing, I can get her into numbers.
