Catch All Fishing Thread

[MNElkNut]

I am thinking nobody has had this happen before. In Canada fishing walleyes, smallmouth and pike. Throwing jigs on a rocky shoreline. My son hooks a pike and gets it halfway to the boat when it breaks his line. We barely see the jighead visible in its mouth as most of the jig is inside its mouth. I had casted after him and so I was reeling my jig in near where it broke his line. I saw it go toward my jig and thought, damn, it is going to grab my jig too and cut my line. So I was a little quick on the hookset. Somehow, I hooked my son's jig in the pike's mouth and pulled it out of his mouth...without catching the fish, I recovered his jig. The only thing I reeled in was his jig, with his Gulp impaled on my jig. How many times could you try and do that without it happening? Millions for sure. Recovered the jig without catching the fish.

 

[Beignet]

My number of quality fishing days sure has diminished since we had a kid nearly two years ago. Makes it slightly harder to get up and say, “conditions look perfect today, see you tomorrow.” Early summer low flows and warm water temps haven’t helped much either. Whatever, it’ll come back and kiddo is a pretty cool adventure in its own.

Did manage to squeeze in a few hours yesterday with my one true fishing buddy, a Montana native that I met on a fairly remote stream in the Catskills about a decade ago (he still lives thataway). Sure miss fishing with that dude on the regular. Got a few troots to take a salmonfly off the surface even though that hatch has long since moved upstream. Not a banner day of catching, but a great time on the water.