Brendan - Fishing is in his DNA

Brendan, comes from a fishing family. Fishing is in his blood. Can't you tell?

Water Temperature: 18 degrees C.
Air Temperature: 5-10 degrees C.
Weather: Unpredictable

I got totally skunked in the morning as the weather was unpredictable. I went out with a spoon and caught absolutely nothing - 5.5 hours of fishing and I caught ziltch. I tried using a huge Williams Whitefish spoon and jigged it at 75 ft. I got a bite but didn't hook anything. I didn't see anything on the sonar either.

When Brendan arrived it was around 12:30pm - we went out after lunch around 2pm. I caught a really small baby trout on the spoon I used last week. Unfortunately it was hooked in the gills and was bleeding badly. But after a few minutes the bleeding stopped and the fish was anxious to get out of the net so we let it go. The markings on the top of the fish were different, more like a Brook Trout, likely because it was young. About a 1/2 hour later Brendan caught his first Laker (above). Nice fish.....




I cut one of the treble hooks off the spoon to make a double hook and went back to the old faithful lure to catch two more.....

Brendan had a lively one on trolling at full speed, unfortunately it got under the boat and he lost it..... mentally. We fished until sunset and didn't catch any more. The fishing was as unpredictable as the weather. It was hot, cold, cloudy, sunny, rainy, drizzly, all changing within 20 minute intervals.



Water Temperature: 17.5 degrees C.
Air Temperature: 2-5 degrees C.
Weather: Clear

We went out at 6:30am the next day. It was clear, but freezing.. Literally. The water temp fell another 1/2 a degree C. The ski-boat cover had ICE on it.

I caught one on the first troll. Brendan then followed up with one of his own shortly thereafter.

Last fish of the day:



Two more weeks to go.. Need to catch another monster 7 lb'er before the season ends....