July 2^nd 2019

Whitney, Jeff & their family were on vacation, all the way from LA, and looking forward to an afternoon of fishing. They were heading to the eastern townships for several days on a lake and managed to hook up with me before leaving.

Their two sons Austin & Logan had never fished before and were really looking forward to catching their first fish! I definitely wanted to get them as many as I could so we concentrated on trolling for pike & walleye. Good choice too as it was a scorcher, but not under the comfort of the roof! It was at least 20 degrees cooler in the shade!

Although it took longer than I had hoped, for the first reel to fire, it was a double and both boys were initiated into the world of fishing!

Plenty more reels fired after and the afternoon was filled with loads more fish. Both pike & walleye were brought to net, with a couple of the eyes making it into the livewell. They would be eating well tonight!

Whitney was the only one without catching anything so I made sure she got the last rod that fired before we called the day. She landed a nice pike and joined the rest, in catching fish today!

Today was a pleasure fishing with the Roy family and I hope we can get together in the future, to do it again! I also hope they are lucky enough to fish, during the rest of their vacation here in Canada!

July 1^st 2019

Yesterday’s weather cancellation had me back out this morning with three generations of fishermen. Jarrett had his son Jayden & his father Tony along for some smallmouth action. Although we got into several fish on our first spot, they were rather small in size. In fact more were lost tan landed when they just came unpinned!

We tried a few other areas afterwards, without much success and finally switched presentations completely. I even had them dropshot a spot, but soon pulled the plug on this as well and headed elsewhere!

The last stop had the best success with numbers of smallies being caught on a couple of presentations. I don’t think it was a location thing, but rather timing. The sun had been out all morning and warmed the water, triggering the bass to bite. By slowing down the speed of the retrieve, we were able to put many more fish in the boat and ended on a high. In fact, Jarrett landed the largest bass of the day on his last cast! I had stretched it out a bit due to the bite and finally called it just before noon!

June 28^th 2019

What a great third day for Neville! He not only managed to get his personal best smallie on a fly, but he even broke it soon after with another one even bigger! Despite the wind causing havoc with the casting, he kept on the fly and was rewarded with some real beauties!

Too bad he had to go back home to England as I’m sure he would have preferred to remain in Canada and hunt for the giant smallies another day!

June 27^th 2019

Day two was a better day for Neville with the fly rod! Although it took several fly changes to get the first one, it was well worth the wait. Largemouth were a little finicky from the get go, barely nipping the flies. Each time he set on the fish, they just let go. He practically had to dead stick the presentations in order to finally get them to bite!

Once we were finished with the green bass, we ventured offshore and managed to get him some nice smallies. Winds didn’t make it easy but he got it done! Great day two and looking forward to day three!

June 26^th 2019

Neville was back again this year for another three day fishing trip. Being from the UK, he really wanted to catch bass and on the fly! I aimed to make it happen!

Every spot we stopped on held fish and despite catching a number of them, most were rather on the small side. He did however manage to get several good ones, making for a great day!