bass
First Day Fishing - 2008
Sun, 04/27/2008 - 11:20pm — Jon
Yesterday Chris and I hit Clyde Pond for our first day of fishing,
hopefully the first of many days this summer. It is still a
bit early in the season, since the ice just came off the water a week
or so ago. We didn't really expect to catch anything, but we
had the itch and wanted to get out there anyway.
We puttered around Clyde Pond (which is just the pond that was created by damming the Clyde river right before it gets into Lake Memphremagog) in the little duck boat that we borrowed from Larry at work. He lets us use it in the summer, since he only uses it for duck hunting the fall. We just have a little electric trolling motor on it, but Larry showed us that he has a little 2hp motor that he might let us use if he can get it working.
It was a bit windy, so we drifted around a bunch. Chris got the first bite, and didn't know it was a fish at first. He thought he had just snagged another log, but when the smallmouth jumped out of the water, we knew it wasn't a log. He landed it and it proved to be the largest fish of the day.
I got jealous, so I copied him and put on a rooster tail, and started casting out into an area near where he got that one. A little bit later, I hooked a nice one right off the front of the boat. We were tied, but he was still beating me on size by a couple of inches. We didn't get any more bites in that area and started moving to another area. I let out my line to troll a little while we were moving, and got another fish on a few minutes later. It was pretty much the same size as the first one.
So, for the day, we only got 3 bites, but they were 3 nice bass and we landed them all. We practice catch and release, so hopefully we can catch them again someday! We are probably going to go out again next Friday if it is nice out and take a vacation day. Here are some pics from the day:
We puttered around Clyde Pond (which is just the pond that was created by damming the Clyde river right before it gets into Lake Memphremagog) in the little duck boat that we borrowed from Larry at work. He lets us use it in the summer, since he only uses it for duck hunting the fall. We just have a little electric trolling motor on it, but Larry showed us that he has a little 2hp motor that he might let us use if he can get it working.
It was a bit windy, so we drifted around a bunch. Chris got the first bite, and didn't know it was a fish at first. He thought he had just snagged another log, but when the smallmouth jumped out of the water, we knew it wasn't a log. He landed it and it proved to be the largest fish of the day.
I got jealous, so I copied him and put on a rooster tail, and started casting out into an area near where he got that one. A little bit later, I hooked a nice one right off the front of the boat. We were tied, but he was still beating me on size by a couple of inches. We didn't get any more bites in that area and started moving to another area. I let out my line to troll a little while we were moving, and got another fish on a few minutes later. It was pretty much the same size as the first one.
So, for the day, we only got 3 bites, but they were 3 nice bass and we landed them all. We practice catch and release, so hopefully we can catch them again someday! We are probably going to go out again next Friday if it is nice out and take a vacation day. Here are some pics from the day:
 Chris got the first bass |
 Another shot with Chris and the biggest bass of the day |
 I landed my first bass of the season right off the front of the boat |
 Close-up of my first bass |
 I got a second bass a few minutes later |
 Another shot of me and my second bass |
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