Trolling

Pike Fishing

I gave an old friend a shout and he was down. I woke to his text message and I was straight out the door as I geared up the night before. An hour drive in some on and off light rain and we were at the lake.

We got right to it and decided to target bass seeing it was still morning and seemed like a good idea. We headed for the weedy bay where I have known them to hang. We set up shop there. When a new guy comes out fishing, you want to produce fish and make sure he has a good time. Unfortunately, it wasn’t happening. Well over an hour had past casting frogs and my friend Marten throwing everything in his tackle box at them.

We gave up and switched our target species to the pike, they also lurk in these waters. Ten minutes out of the unproductive bass territory I was into a small pike it was a relief to finally have a fish on my line. Spirits were up and the rain holding off left us with pretty sweet weather conditions. We were now on the troll after some fish. My friend gets his first one on and look who it is…? A decent largemouth bass. Yeah, the same fish we were after in the bay showed himself after hitting a big spinner bait on the troll.

We were on a roll and hooking up fairly often. Lots of pike all around the same size and a few more bucket mouths. We spent every second after the first fish trolling the small lake for a pike that would eat the ones we were catching but he was no where to be found.

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