Monday, January 08, 2007

Sweetnose and Pinoccinose


One place we fished was right around Sweetnose Island and the islands around it. By the time we got there, it was kind of late, about 1 0'clock or so. We were drfting along, casting, and noticed a big, black animal at the water's edge. We shot down there thinking it was a bear, but it turned out to be a big, hairy dog. There is a campsite on one of the little islands, and there were 2 guys and a few kids camping there. As we drifted by, we waved, said Hi, and asked about the fishing. This one guy's daughter (about 8-9) yells out, " My dad caught a 24" walleye there last night". I thought this guy was going to die right there. Right away he starts saying he didn't catch it there, it was in a bay about a mile away. We said "Ya, Right".
Just our luck we didn't bring a map, or we would've seen the hole right in front of the island. But we drifted around the islands and up through the bay anyway. We caught a couple of northerns in the bay, and six 1 1/2 -2 pound smallies off Cemetary Island. There are some ledges that go out into the bay just north of Cemetary. They don't show on the map, we happened on them while drifting along. You could see the bait-fish down there and the rocks.
I always throw the northerns back, but I caught them on a #2 black mepps. They seem to love that color and size lure. The smallmouths we got with jigs tipped with crawlers or leeches. It didn't seem to make any difference to them. Even the little ones were biting them up.
We stayed about 4 hours and marked some spots that we wanted to try later. It's an hour and one half back to the cabin, so I was glad to get going. As you can see the water was pretty calm so we made good time. Next time I made sure that we brought more to munch on. We had plenty to drink though. Later.

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