Totally Rainy Day
November 1, 2018
October 31st 2018
Last day of October and a scheduled day with Dan to fish for sturgeon. Unfortunately “Mother Nature” Has a way of getting in the final word and today she did just that. All day rain wouldn’t have been a problem but the 25 knot winds predicted would be an issue for anchoring. We opted for plan B and headed elsewhere for smallies instead!
We hit the water about 8:30 just as it started raining and I knew we were in for a real treat. Neither of us cared about the wet weather, as long as the fish cooperated!
I arrived on the first spot and it didn’t take Dan long to hook a good bass on a jig. It also didn’t take him long to hook his second and third fish too! Feeling rather confident, he missed the next two and then it began! I switched up and immediately started landing fish as well. In fact I boated 5 in a row and let the games begin! It didn’t really matter as today was a fun day of fishing for both of us and we were just hoping to catch as many big fish as we could.
After covering plenty of water with these baits, I moved out a little deeper and decided to try some drop shotting. Almost immediately I was locked up again and this time it was a really big one. Several casts later I had another one and it was almost as big! Dan immediately switched up and was now tossing the same rig, hoping for another fish. Unfortunately he wasn’t as fortunate and went several hours without even a bite! Despite changing several times to different baits, all he could do was watch me catching. I didn’t kill em but did manage to hook many more each time we moved spots! I was locked on one style of soft plastic and the fish were too! Despite trying to get Dan to change, he kept switching to various other baits without any luck. Eventually he just cracked and gave in!
After several hours without a bite, his first cast had him finally hooked up! Not only was he into a good bass but it turned out to be one of the biggest of the day and his personal best. I was just glad that he was back in the game and had a real good one in the net. Once weighed, we realized that it was definitely bigger than his previous best and worthy of several pics.
We resumed fishing afterwards and continued catching more bass on drop shot rigs. Although none were as big as Dan’s last one, there were several pretty close. I even managed to bring a nice walleye into the boat in the last few minutes we fished. Shortly after 3:30 we both had enough with the all day rain and just packed it in.
Although the weather could have been better, we were still glad to have been on the water. The fishing wasn’t fast & furious but the bites we did have were good ones. One fish in particular really made the day for Dan! He had hoped to catch a bigger one today and that he did! Overall, we wouldn’t have changed it for anything!!
