Italy Rocks

August 14th 2018

 

Another group of four enjoyed their day on the water again today, filled with lots of action. Two were local but the other two were in from Italy. I was about to get a lesson in another language that I didn’t really understand. Oh well, it would give me plenty of time to focus on the fishing!

I had opted to troll once more with this many bodies in the boat and got the lines in quickly, once we arrived. Well it didn’t take long before two reels fired and we were off to the races! Their Italian guests were into their first Canadian pike, but it wouldn’t be their last. Throughout the morning everyone would have their fair share of these toothy critters. Along with them, there would also be several decent keeper walleye and a few overs too. One of them even landed a pretty good smallie that somehow moved into the pike & walleye area to feed.

The morning passed by quickly with John feeding everyone in the boat. He even made espresso coffee for them several times with his portable burner and special pot. We were like a travelling restaurant on the water!

At one point in the morning I was forced to raise the top with the drizzle we had gotten and was glad to have done so. Eventually it came down a little harder, but everyone stayed dry! When it did pass though, the sun came out and it became a scorcher, so the cover was a welcomed addition for two reasons.

All the while reels were going off constantly and numbers of fish were seeing the net. Well most of them were as one of the Italian guests released many before they reached the boat. I don’t think he understood the concept of Catch & Release! Either way, plenty of fish were still caught by everyone.

Eventually in the mid afternoon sunshine, things slowed down as usual and I decided to change it up some. We were going to go for smallies and I packed up the trolling gear and pulled out the lighter rods for them to cast. They were really looking forward to getting into some bass on soft plastics as we ran to the next spot to fish.

I decided to give them an example of how to fish these baits and as usual, had one on the first cast. Unfortunately it came off before I could get it to the boat! Once these guys got started it was one miss after the other. Everyone lost at least two or three fish before they slowed down on the hookset. I think John had the first fish up front and it started the ball rolling. By the time it was all said and done, they had landed over a dozen fish from this one small area and missed many more than that too!

These guys had experienced what everyone else has lately and landed plenty of fish. They all had slams as well with the pike, walleye and bass they caught. This was a great day all around and catered by John with the amount of food he had brought. Nobody went hungry as I think he fed them every couple of hours! The espresso coffee they had was also a new thing in the boat for me. I’m just glad I didn’t have any as I’m already wired most days anyway! All in all this was a very successful day on the water and everyone left totally satisfied. Just another great day of fishing!!