Just Fishing

Getting Through Winter

Sun, January 22, 2012

Let’s start here: its been a mild winter. To me that’s a blessing. Still, sitting around this weekend I’m already getting restless to get outdoors and fish. Just two weeks ago Cam and I got out to Spring. Even though the weather was mild for January, the lake was mostly covered in ice. So we launched and broke it up with my new boat! I’ve never claimed to be all that smart. Once we broke up the ice there was a little room to fish but we weren’t having any luck. Fortunately one fish was pretty determined to bite and hit on a figure eight late in the day. As I was swimming the lure around the boat the rod tip was bouncing of chunks of ice! When I hooked this fish the first thing it did was run under the ice! That was interesting. I worked the ski back to the boat and Cam took this picture.

So we knew that was gonna be the last trip with the boat for a while. Fortunately the only damage I did was to break off the transducer from the back of the boat. Given how much ice I plowed through, I was happy thats all I did. Last weekend we were set to hit the muskie show but I wound up not feeling good all weekend so it was lots of fishing shows on TV. That saved me more than a few bucks!

Friday’s weather made me think we might have to stay home again this weekend, but since it looked ok out this morning we decided to hit the open house at Bedford Sales in Morris. Cam and I looked at rods, reels, and plenty of must have baits. This included my first look at the Alabama Rig. My first though was, ” why wouldn’t that work”? My next thought was, ” why would you want 2 fish on at once”? In total it seems pretty bizarre to me. The highlight of the trip was a chance to talk to bass fishing legend Denny Brauer for about ten minutes. At the end of our chat he signed an autograph for Cam and then posed for this picture. Very cool.

With only one more week in January it seems winter will be a little easier to survive this year.

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