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Family trip
Got the Triton all hooked up to the Oleary Buick GMC Sierra and headed for the water with one of my all-time favourite anglers, my grandson Richard.
Today we are fishing up near Woodstock on a body of water that is primarily Smallmouth Bass and Eastern Chain Pickerel as well as an abundance of forage fish like Yellow Perch and Chub. We actually commented during the day that the forage base seems extremely strong but the Pickerel don’t seem to attain any size. They were mostly the “ hammer handle “ size with the odd one being just a bit bigger.
We were only fishing about two minutes when Richard set the hook into a nice 3 lb Smallmouth. He got it on an unweighted BPS Sticko on a 4/0 Gamakatsu EWG worm hook which was Texas rigged. We mixed it up a bit throughout the day with topwater and spinner baits but the Sticko produced all most all of the good fish. We did pick up a few on a surface frog as well. The best colour for us today was green pumpkin with the black flake in it.
The majority of the fish came on areas where the channel swept in close to the vegetation and the combination of depth, pads and grass were the ticket for the day. We were both using 6’6” Shimano Crucial rods with 2500 Stradics. For the Stickos we were using 8lb Siege Green mono and for the frogs we were using 20 lb Power Pro. We were tossing the frogs into some pretty heavy vegetation and the Power Pro was a big help in getting the fish out of the grass.
We caught some really decent fish during the day with a mix of smallish Pickerel and the odd Perch thrown in and it was a great day on the water. There was only one other boat fishing here all day so no traffic.
This is probably Richard’s last trip for a while as he is getting packed up to head for Dalhousie University for the fall semester. It was great to be able to spend the day with him as he gets ready to start the next phase of his life in Halifax.
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