I’m a little late reporting on a day of fishing chain pickerel with Casey Hayward. By the next morning I was again thinking about yard work and getting my vegetable garden ready for planting and our day of fishing went hiding in the back of my mind.
As we have learned in past years when the water is high the fishing can be tough as they have so much more area to swim in.
After trying a few of the normal locations we would usually get fish without any strikes we decided that we might do better in a back bay with shallow water which would be warmer.
So we headed through one of the culverts at Redbank and headed back into an area Casey would never get his boat on a normal year but with high water we had little trouble getting way back in where normally it would require a canoe or my trusty float tubes.
These are the same culverts where I smashed my camera a couple of years ago. Sucked to ruin my camera but what a great excuse to buy a bigger badder camera like the Canon Powershot I got.
I had my new Nikon camera strap around my neck so if I had to steady the boat as we went through I would be able to do it with free hands. My other camera had a wrist strap which I used all the time so as NOT to drop it in the drink. Didn’t think about smashing it into a steel wall.
We caught pickerel and had a great day on the water although we didn’t catch any monsters. I did catch a feisty 24” pickerel and was the only photo we took of fish all day. Still early in the season so this guy will put on some weight for the next one to catch it.
As usually I don’t remember how many we caught but I do remember that I caught the first fish which was the biggest fish as well as the most fish. So I guess actual numbers don’t really matter.
