Pete Collin

I think I saw you guys and heard your glad shouts. I was the only other guy out there.

I jig vertically while drifting. I got a long anchor line for windy days that I haven't gotten to try yet. Lake Ontario fish really don't chase hase very far at all, and a fast crank is useless.

Glad you're still getting out there Isaac! Does that mean you bought a boat?

Thanks Mike! It's so hard to make plans, my trips are always last minute!

1 1/2 oz round heads with plastic bodies. I give a rundown of equipment on a youtube video tht I posted here once.

Hello All, I had been away from doing much boating or fishing for a couple of years. I bought the neighboring house, tore it down, and built a garage. That left me with little time on the water. Now that that project is done, I can get back to a normal life that includes fishing! It was an interesting day. The boating conditions were perfect for my little 16 footer. The plan was to troll for browns in the early morning, then search for lakers later. No browns wanted to play, so when I saw some marks in 80-90 feet, I set up to start jigging. And caught a nice laker right away. The funny thing was that I always depend on a big concentration of fish for jigging to work, but I didn't find that. There was just the odd fish here and there, but when I found fish, they often bit right away! Bites would come on a blank screen, and each fish was bigger than the one before it. Ended the day with 6 fish, the last one being a whopping 38 incher that must have weighed more than 20 pounds! I had a movie camera with me. When it was running, they wouldn't bite. I turned it on to show that last big one, but was so excited I forgot to hit record! Fishing by yourself just seems to make eerything more difficult. Especially since I lost my landing net. Don't know if it fell out of my boat somewhere or if somebody helped themselves to it when my boat was unattended. But at least I ddint' lose any fish because of it. I also got smart and added a stinger hook to my jig. Can't imagine how better my numbers would have been over my previous trips had I been doing so! Hope work and weather allows me to get out much more this summer. I missed that electric tug!

Placeboat.

Hello All, This winter I have seen something in the woods that I have never noticed before. In a couple of locations, there was deer urine-soaked snow that was tinted blue. I mean real, windex-shaded blue. Made me wonder if deer get porphyria like King George III. What might cause this? Do they sell salt licks with dye so you can track them somehow? Pete Collin