Well boys I just got back from a trip up into the islands and I fished for three days. Needless to say the bite wasn’t in my favor this year. Its always a bonus to get on a nice bite when we drive 14 hours to fish, but that is definatly not what it is all about. The first day we fished it was -38 degrees. The second day there were high skys, sunny and very cold. The third day consisted of low skys and lots of snow. Well, long story short, inconsistant weather = a tough situation. Never in the ten years that I have been going has the weather took a turn like that in three different days. Yes, it was tough and numbers were down, but I generally don’t care for numbers. I, like the rest of us, want that one big hog to bite and if that is the only fish in three days, that is what we came for!! We did manage to pull a couple of nice fish. My dad managed one that was 26 inches and hit the scale at 7 lbs. What a beauty!! We also managed the pull out a slime dart the was 38 inchs and hit the scale at 18 lbs. So all in all, that is why we go in the first place. This is why we call it fishing and not catching and what keeps us doing what we do as anglers. 
PS Please give me some warm weather!
January 27, 2011 at 4:58 pm
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