Soft water fishing - Feb 1, 2012

[superdad]

Holy Cow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! There it was soft water and an open ramp.......

Laker John and I hit the really open water on Wednesday, the 1st of February for two reasons.

1. Never fished from a boat in February

2. Wouldn't have to ice fish in February to maintain our fishing in every month of the year.

Got the boat in the water after by-passing a truck and boat trailer left in the middle of the ramp - some people are not considerate of anyone else.

Had the rods out by 0900 and saw a couple of other boats doing what we were doing - fighting the wind and the waves.

Trolling in John's tinny was getting tricky and we made a pass down wind and one up wind, then thought there might be a lee on the south side and headed over there to discover it was same. Trolled down to Keith Shoal, pulled the lines and headed back to the north side, The waves were gettting larger and we were bouncing pretty good, so we decided that discretion was the better part of valour and headed for the ramp. Took the boat out at 1230.

Our results were a skunk, but we saw the net a couple times on one of the other boats.

So that's our fishing in Quinte for February, the state of the ice makes me concerned and have decided to pass on the rest of the ice season and get our hooks sharpened for the browns in March.

Stay Tuned

David aka Superdad