November Comfort

Rich was back with me again today and this time brought Xavier along as well. They were hoping to get into some big smallies and I knew just the place. After the last couple of outings. I was also excited to return and hopefully it would be as good this time around!

The weather was unseasonably warm once again, with temps expected to reach into the 70’s. Not the norm for November weather, but definitely welcomed! We began in an area that was loaded with fish, but they just didn’t seem to want to bite. Although I was marking them, they refused all of our offerings until Rich manage to persuade a small one on a dropshot. At least we had the skunk out of the boat!

After seeing all the fish in a negative mode, I decided to cover more water. We moved along and Xavier finally managed to get bit. This was the first big one but also quite lean. I was used to seeing fat footballs and this wasn’t one of them. We kept at it and started getting bit more often now, with Rich and Xavier boating more fish. Very few small ones were caught and although the bite was slower than expected, the size wasn’t. These fish were mostly all quality!

With daylight savings time upon us now, I was cutting it shorter today. I would be leaving an hour earlier just to be able to get home and park in the light. I had my work cut out for me as I wanted more big fish! Our last couple of hours saw just that, with plenty of good fish caught by both.

Today was a bit slower than expected but the weather more than made up for the fishing. It may have been slow at times but the bites were usually big fish. We worked hard for each and every fish caught and were rewarded with quality. We’ll take quality over quantity, any day of the week!!