Thread: Fishing with new friend, Jay Wylie 3/11/19th

Jay and I picked a poor day to fish to start the week. 20 degrees colder today and wind from the north which got us both chilled before long. Jay trolls mostly because of his children who are developing a taste for fishing.

But he wanted to see some of my techniques of single pole fishing. Jay is no stranger with a rod in hand and casting as he used to be a musky fisherman from up north.

He wanted to see how to shoot a jig under docks, so after a short 101 lesson on the how to shoot a jig, we hit the first dock. Water was extremely trashy and a strong current there, so I took him to Chester Frost Park in order to get off of the main river current.

Water color in CFP was amazingly good. Nice green color and the wind, although cold, wasn’t too much for brushpile fishing and checking out underwater islands or humps as we like to call them. We saw lots of boats in that bay and people were catching crappie using the trolling method. We chose not to do that as Jay can troll anytime and I don’t enjoy it one bit.

My biggest crappie today today was a fat 13” fish and a couple more nice ones as well. I landed a 8.5” Warmouth bass that had a golf ball size belly on her, so after pics and measurements, she was released. I hooked a very large bass under one dock that made a quick run just under the surface of the water and it looked like a submarine. It took off the hook, but we both got really good looks at it. I estimated it in the 4-5 lb range, but Jay said 6 or better. It was long and strong. Grin.

I showed Jay how I fish bluffs, brushpiles, deep ponds, docks, and that is about it. Water temp 51.7 and 174,000 cfs current in the river. We quit when the unexpected rain began to fall.

Good info and fishing report. Thanks for sharing both.