It's back!

My goal each and every time I go fishing has been to out fish the other people in the boat. Fun always came with knowing that I was the better fisherman for that day. I didn’t care about anything else, just put the trolling motor down and lets fish. Turn the cell phone off, don’t waste time with conversation, keep the senkos at your feet and get as many casts as you could out there. Chances are if you out cast the rest of the guys in the boat, percentages say you should have a greater chance of having more opportunities to catch fish. That’s not the attitude for me anymore. I want the big fish. I want the challenge of finding the one that hasn’t been caught yet. This is what I am after now. I want records: personal, state, world it doesn’t matter.

Welcome back to the blog that tells it all. I have taken a year off the blog circuit in hopes of finding myself and saving some money, at least I accomplished one out of the two. I have done some pretty heavy duty research on fishing both through articles and through actually fishing. Pretty much I have discovered a lot of what I already knew. I still feel pretty confident in my abilities catching whatever fish I want besides catfish. Some might think that is a pretty pampas thought or comment, but really it’s my hobby and something I do a lot so I would hope that I would be learning something over the years from what everyone has taught me.

Ice fishing went well this year. Cory Conrad and I both purchased Aqua-Vu cameras and it really increased our fishing production. I hear you all sigh right now and say to yourself, “no kidding, you can see the fish”. What you don’t realize is that it’s more than that. We used it at first for this reason, with mixed results. When we experienced the most success is when we concentrated on the factors that were a precursor to the end result of catching fish. We looked at structure, depth, and zoo plankton. Yes, zoo plankton. We mimicked the actions and tried to match jigs and weights that would best mimic the plankton. We did pretty well after that.

Spring fishing is going as it usually goes; I try and catch whatever is biting. I would give the spring season a B so far. I have had some serious opportunities to catch some nicer fish, but not a whole lot of luck after that. My crappie fishing prowess is getting a lot better. Nagle always told me to stop setting the hook like a bass, and I think my ice fishing practice helped a lot. The bass fishing has been slow, but it is starting to pick up a bit this last weekend. We had a cold snap a couple of weeks ago, you can tell by the layers in the walleye picture, so I am sure that hurt the water temperature a bit.

So far nothing big………….