A Birthday Gift

Keith’s wife had surprised him with a fishing trip, as a gift for his 50^th birthday today. Along with him were three of his friends to join in the fun. Roy, Sheldon & Stephane would be enjoying an afternoon with the birthday boy and hopefully the fish would treat them well!

It was nice to finally be fishing in cooler air temperatures, after a week of insane heat. Although I didn’t have clients, I was out almost every day regardless, searching for new areas to fish. We would be hitting one of them today!

I decided that with 4 bodies in the boat, they would be dropshotting and instructed everyone on what to do. It wasn’t long before Roy was tight to the first of many, fish of the day. It was soon followed by another and he had two nice bass before anyone knew what had happened. We were drifting an open water area and covering water with an almost perfect wind. It allowed them to fish effectively, without having to cast and it was working. The others were hooking into fish as well and although some were coming unpinned, most were ending up in the net. With each pass, many fish were being landed and a combination of bass and walleye were caught. The fish were definitely cooperating today!

I had planned on hitting other areas this afternoon, but this place was too loaded to leave. We actually remained here for the entire time. Drift after drift fish were being caught and there was no reason to leave. We kept at it right until the end and the results were outstanding! In fact, they decided to call it a bit earlier and we pulled off by 3:30 instead of 4:00. They had all landed plenty of fish for the day!

Great times were had by all this afternoon and the numbers were high. Although there were a few slow periods, most of the time someone was hooked up. In fact, there were several doubles and even a few triple headers during their trip. It couldn’t have worked out better today! I know that Keith will be remembering his 50^th for a while and the great time he had fishing with his friends!