New PB Chub 23-8-14

After watching the levels of the river all week,friday looked spot on,unfortunatly i couldnt go.So i went saturday evening.The river had fallen quite a bit,i had an idea where i wanted to fish,i arrived at 6-45,set up and was fishing for 7pm.

My approach would be feeders on both rods ,casting every 25 minutes,boilie on one rod,pellet on the other.
I had to wait just over an hour,a good fight and a new pb chub was in the net,taken on the boilie rod.

5.2 NEW PB,Well chuffed.
It seemed ages till my next bite on the left hand rod,on pellet another chub.The fish seemed to have a stunted tail.

you can just see the wierd twist below its dorsal......................................................

My left hand rod went again,this time the fish bumped it self off,could of been a roach.It was just after midnight and my left hand rod was off again on pellet,no mistake this time,a barbel.

A rushed self take........................................

I packed up about 12-30,a difficult evening with a nice reward.Till the next time bloggers,Tight Lines.

First river session in ages 17 august 2014

Good evening bloggers,just a short blog about my session on a wet and windy river.I have not been out since holiday due to various reasons and worst of all my Mum had a stroke a week ago which has been a stress full time,shes home now and getting better.

I met ian early to a wet and windy day,we headed up river and chose our swims,mine feeder and bag approach, ian trotting for roach.

I was recasting every 30 mins and nothing was happening,then i cast  out and a chub took my boilie on the drop.Ian was into a few chub,but presentation was ruining his waggler work,also his keep net went missing,lucky a salmon angler returned it,lol.

I decided to move and after a few hours decided to call it a draw.Packed up and we got wet through walking back,Did we learn anything,yes dont fish this stretch when its windy.....................

Saved a blank,till the next time........................................................................

Lure fishing U.S.A Part 2

Before i start ill pinpoint where i have been,ishpeming is a city in marquette county,in the upper peninsula of US state of michigan,population 6,470......

The next part of the trip was to go out on the boat.We banked fished throughout the holiday at various times,but as the boat had been stored through the winter a few jobs neded to be done first............

Lucy ready for our first trip out to fish lake 13 mile trip for an evenings fishing....................

Fish lake as we were on the water.............................

Id had 2 pike before i hooked this bass on the same MW Wake bait,Jim and Andrew decided to fish for Blue gill on worm.................................

Jim with a blue gill.................................................

A mepps caught pike,i had 8 pike in total that evening..............................

Jim with his worm caught pike.............................................

A Calm Fish Lake................................................

We were kindly given the use of this cabin for the weekend.Cook lake a private lake that has various properties around the lake,either as a permanant or weekend getaway.

The boat belongs to the cabin and the home made boat launch.Fishing here proved difficult,it was too windy friday evening,saturday it was red hot,so went out saturday night and i had four pike before a storm kicked in........................

A good sized lake,seems the ruling any pike over 24 inches must be removed,classed as a nuisance fish,i put all mine back,as always.........................................

Boat launch at Deer Lake........................................................................................

The sign at Deer Lake,suits me as they are going back any way...................

A bright evening as we set off...............................

This way skipper...............................

Andrew was into the pike first on a spoon.................

Andrew caught 4 pike very quickly in this spot.....................................

I was getting into them now,this pike had black colours to it,shame the shot doesnt show it due to the sun.

Moved in closer to the island,this little fella had some nasty bite marks.............

Few battle scars...........................................

This pike hit the lure at the side of the boat i as i went to hand land it,it went beserk and wraped the trace around its gills,i tried to free one hook and as i did it shook the other hook.

Then the walleye turned up..............................................

And another on the Mark Houghton wake bait........................................

We turned around the back off the island and i had another walleye,Total for that session was 5 pike and 3 walleye.

Another walleye on a lucky 13.............................

Another pike for Andrew..................................

My last walleye of the evening,time to head back before it becomes dark...................

Just a few shots before we headed back to the launch................................

i visited another lake called switzer lake with jim,we spent the best part of the afternoon and early

evening and it was a struggle,jim caught a few pike and a bass and i had 4 pike.I have no pictures as the memory card crashed.lovely lake with loads of bays,you have to be careful as theres lots of tree stumps sticking up and beneath the water.A nice day out but bright conditions didnt help the fishing,i lost a couple

of fish under the boat and the lures varied,Big s,lucky 13 and mepps were the lures of the day.

Well remember in part 1 i said we would get the boat on the part off Deer lake close to the road.We carried andrews light ali boat 200 yards,passed it over the guard rail and we were fishing.
The only problem we had andrews boat wasnt registered,so we had to use oars,not what i wanted and as he,d been away we didnt get time and this was my last chance.

A small northern on a mepps.........................

My biggest pike off the trip 28 inches,on a Original Big s.we were struggling due to the wind and decided as we had forgot the anchor,to go and have a drink,we headed to an area that was easy to get the boat out.
As andrew went back to his truck to turn it round i got every thing out off the boat to the roadside.As andrew came down the bank he said ill get the pop bottles,he stood in the boat ,did the splits and was now 25 yards from the bank and drifting,i through him the oars he didnt catch any,i was laughing so much i decided to cast a lure over the boat,he tied it and i reeled him in.

If you look close you can see my braid,we retrieved the oars,went home and went out on the town and got drunk.
We had another session on the bank i lost 3 pike and caught one,we also fished at cedar beach for blue gill and sunfish and bass,i caught a few blue gill and sunfish on worm,very enjoable on light rods.I would like to thank Andrew for taking me fishing and also Jim,it was a blast,Tight lines

Total pike i caught was 27,lost quite a few too,and 7 walleye,really enjoyed it,cant wait to go again,so many lakes to fish ,its surrounded by them ,Lake Superior isnt far away,an awesome lake.