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Finally got out and fished! Everybody in the house seemed relatively healthy (except for me). The wife even “gave me permission” to fish. Woo-hoo! Thought I’d go to Yorkville and fish from 4pm - 7pm. Called George to see if he could meet me there – no luck (had other plans). I consider George to be what y’all think of Ed “A walleye master.” He is a Yorkville local that has been fishing the river two to three times a week for a very long time. George gave me the following report…
I’ve been fishing twice a week for the past month, trying some different spots. The bite has been slow but I have managed to get a couple fish a week in the 16 to 18” range. When the big fish don’t bite I go and fish the trusted spots for the dink eyes. Same jig/twister combo we have been using since Fall.
George told me to go out later “you should fish from 6pm - 9pm – the bite is better.” I don’t care to wade the river alone at night, but I figured the boogieman doesn’t bother me when I wade in daylight and he is probably afraid of the dark too. So I got in the river at 6pm and tried the spots that George was catching the occasional bigger eye and came up empty. Off to the dink holes!
On the way to my favorite dink hole I met Derrick (I think, I am shamfully bad with names). He is a very nice guy. He too has been fishing the area for 15+ years. Kept me company and kept the boogieman away. Caught some dinks and exchanged e-mail addresses before he left. After that I fished from shore with another nice new contact “Bill.” Bill is another local. We fished till 9pm and caught another handful of dinks. I told Bill about CLF and he asked me if I would tell everyone about the importance of catch & release and I responded, “Bill, they’re the choir.”
I think the highlight of this night was meeting and getting to know a couple other humans. Nice folks out doing what I like to do – fish. The catching was slow but the fishing was good. The following picture is of me and what I think may be my smallest dink of the year. This was the first time I brought the new digital camera out fishing. I put it in my waterproof wading bag. The bag worked perfect. Put my cell phone in there too in case the boogieman was about to get me and I could scare him away by threatening to call my mother-in-law.
I closed my eyes like a big dork, but you can see the fish. WTF? Promised me some photography lessons (I think I need to take him up on that).
BTW: Ed, I didn’t see any minks :smile:
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Finally got out and fished! Everybody in the house seemed relatively healthy (except for me). The wife even “gave me permission” to fish. Woo-hoo! Thought I’d go to Yorkville and fish from 4pm - 7pm. Called George to see if he could meet me there – no luck (had other plans). I consider George to be what y’all think of Ed “A walleye master.” He is a Yorkville local that has been fishing the river two to three times a week for a very long time. George gave me the following report…
I’ve been fishing twice a week for the past month, trying some different spots. The bite has been slow but I have managed to get a couple fish a week in the 16 to 18” range. When the big fish don’t bite I go and fish the trusted spots for the dink eyes. Same jig/twister combo we have been using since Fall.
George told me to go out later “you should fish from 6pm - 9pm – the bite is better.” I don’t care to wade the river alone at night, but I figured the boogieman doesn’t bother me when I wade in daylight and he is probably afraid of the dark too. So I got in the river at 6pm and tried the spots that George was catching the occasional bigger eye and came up empty. Off to the dink holes!
On the way to my favorite dink hole I met Derrick (I think, I am shamfully bad with names). He is a very nice guy. He too has been fishing the area for 15+ years. Kept me company and kept the boogieman away. Caught some dinks and exchanged e-mail addresses before he left. After that I fished from shore with another nice new contact “Bill.” Bill is another local. We fished till 9pm and caught another handful of dinks. I told Bill about CLF and he asked me if I would tell everyone about the importance of catch & release and I responded, “Bill, they’re the choir.”
I think the highlight of this night was meeting and getting to know a couple other humans. Nice folks out doing what I like to do – fish. The catching was slow but the fishing was good. The following picture is of me and what I think may be my smallest dink of the year. This was the first time I brought the new digital camera out fishing. I put it in my waterproof wading bag. The bag worked perfect. Put my cell phone in there too in case the boogieman was about to get me and I could scare him away by threatening to call my mother-in-law.
I closed my eyes like a big dork, but you can see the fish. WTF? Promised me some photography lessons (I think I need to take him up on that).
BTW: Ed, I didn’t see any minks :smile:
