Fish Pitched a Shutout

The good news is that I caught twice as many fish as Nathaniel did today. The bad news is that he also caught twice as many as I did. Yep. Only one thing that can mean.

We began by fishing vertically with ice lures tipped with worms in the deep part of the pond and really thought that would be the ticket. However, we never got as much a sniff. One limitation, contrasted to winter days when we've done well with the same approach, is that the wind was absolutely howling and the only way we could keep lines down and present lures effectively was to anchor. Normally we can drift slowly, so that might help us find fish. We don't have electronics on Nathaniel's johnboat, so we don't really know where the structure and cover are in the deep end of the pond. We just know the general area where we catch the most fish during the winter.

When the fish wouldn't bite in the middle, we decided to work the perimeter for a while. However, the wind made that even more of a losing cause, especially for Nathaniel, who had to keep a constant hand on the trolling motor. We worked down one bank and around a corner, but lacking any obvious interest from the fish, we didn't stick with shoreline casting terribly long.

So the bass and bream pitched a shutout today, but I'm still glad we got out there for a while.