Fletcher Fishing

posted by John on Jun 12

JR and Rich joined us for our Sunday outing. JR had fished with us last year and extended his stay a day to come out fishing with us. Are they lucky they did. We came upon a massive surface feed that must have been acres. There were birds and fish everywhere.

All of our rods are small light duty with 4000 series shimano saragossas and saharas. When a 20 lb bass hits it, it is like an explosion and the rod goes over.

I don’t think the lure mattered, but we took the fish on Ronzis and various plugs. The fish were chowing down and took everything we threw. What a difference a day makes.

We easily caught 30 fish in 3 hours, and 1 hour of that was travel time. We would have kept fishing, but the boat threw the power steering belt, I got it back on and the starter did not want to kick the engine, but after multiple tries, the engine started. We came back in immediately, since the fish were heading south and we need to go north to get back to dock.

Here are the pics:

Jr’s big fish

Rich’s big fish

Stephen’s big fish

JR with his stylish release.

20 lb bass bent rod

massive surface feed that went on and on for hours.