Fishing Korea

Breaking tradition mainly because Saturday was such a good day and knowing that our bass fishing days are numbered with the heat of summer quickly approaching, we went back out Sunday afternoon to see what we could do.  To our delight, the road to our cove was no longer blocked off to vehicle traffic and we drove right down to the water.  I have no idea how the word got out so quickly that the road was clear again, but a lot of other people were there ahead of us, already enjoying the beautiful weather.

You can see a group of people having a picnic on the other side of what’s left of the cove.  The water is so shallow now that you could wade across most of it but there are still some good holes that are attracting the bass, as we found out shortly.

There’s my neighbor and often fishing partner Khalil, out with his family, having a combination barbecue/fishing trip.  I’m not sure what they were cooking (I’m guessing chicken) but the odor drifting across the cove reminded me that I hadn’t eaten yet the whole day.  Even though I called Khalil on his cell phone and mentioned several times how good whatever he was cooking smelled, he never did offer to share.  I’ll have to remember that for future reference

One of the two boats that takes people water skiing.  This was a bad shot on my part, as I’d intended to get both the boat AND the skier behind it.

There, that’s better.  Boat and skier, in one shot.  “But where are the fish?” you’re asking yourself. Patience, my young grasshopper, patience!

Yeah, baby!  Here’s yours truly holding up two of the four I caught today.  The bass on the left is one of the larger ones I’ve caught all year.

And here’s Ty with two of his trophies.

I’m glad we went out because usually I wouldn’t think the fishing would be any good in the early afternoon on a hot, sunny day but that just shows you how little I know about bass fishing because they were biting at 3:30 when we got to the water.  As a matter of fact, we caught all but one of the 9 keeper sized bass before 6, all on 5 inch black Senkos again.  Just to test a theory I had, I was also fishing with different color and type plastic worms which had worked well for me last year but aside from a few bites which I missed (I think they were large bluegill hitting the tail of the worm), I didn’t land a single bass on any of them.

One thing that part cracks me up, part annoys me is how other people who are out fishing react to fish being caught.  This has happened to us several times now and happened again yesterday - one of us catches a bass, and a group of people come over and start throwing their lures into the same area we’re fishing.  Since this is only asking for tangled lines, we move away from them (usually to the area they just left) and then when one of us catches another fish in the area they just vacated, they rush back over there and start the process again.  I guess it never enters their mind that maybe the reason they’re not catching fish is due to something they’re doing or not doing, not because there aren’t any fish in the water in front of them.

All in all, a great way to end what was an excellent weekend all the way around.