10-20-2013 Fish Report

[Scott Kitchen]

 

I took off the afternoon on Friday with plans to fish with Carl Schenk from 12:30 PM till at least 8:00 PM.  Unfortunately, by the time we got to the water there was probably a foot or less of visibility.  We did try for a while including drifting the entire length of the river side mouth of the Black Rock Channel, but nothing.  I had also planned to fish most of Saturday and Sunday, but with the water like it was I did not fish at all on Saturday and canceled fishing with a friend from work on Sunday morning. 

By 1:30 PM on Sunday I could not take it anymore and decided to hit the river solo for at least a couple of hours.  The water was odd, it looked like the normal foot or less of visibility (hazy whitish-tan/green), but was actually about three or four feet of visibility on the Canadian side at 2:00 PM.  I decided that I would troll at slower speeds (3.7 to 4.0 mph) with one of the custom color Toothies Jim painted for me gridding the bottom.  They are black and white stripped with an orange belly.  On the second pass through the triangle I hooked up with a 47.5 that showed her age.  She had older lamprey scars on both sides and several splits in her tail and other fins. 

I spend another hour or so fishing until 4:00, at which point the water actually looked a little worse and I called it a day. 

So as much as I did not get to fish the hours that I wanted I shouldn't complain.