12-19-2023, 06:38 PM
I feel bad because I didn't get into a lot of details about what and how we fished. I don't think we had any supersecret weapons. We used the lures we have for years and the ones that get mentioned all the time to use there. As anybody can tell you, the fish were on the bottom and they liked both jigging and dead-sticking. A funny and shocking thing happened to me. I was using a Paddle Bug which I've hardly ever tried before, so I dipped it a few inches down the hole and was wiggling it about trying to learn what it looked like down in the water when suddenly a trout viciously attacked it. I just reacted on instinct and hauled the cheeky little bugger high up in the air and down on the iice. "Everyone knows that the trout hug the bottom."
The older I get the more I would rather be considered a good man than a good fisherman.