Not a moment in Wolfeboro, NH went by back in the day when my cousin Jon and I weren’t fishing Lake Winnipesaukee. We basically lived out of a 12 foot row boat with a Mercury 7.5. And when the motor was busted, which was often because two young teenage kids will run an engine hard, we fished from my Old Town Canoe. Last night and again this morning Jon and I had a lot of laughs and caught a few fish together from the very same canoe on the very same waters.
It’s amazing – its literally almost 50 years later and we are fishing together from this canoe. When you’re twelve you can’t imagine being in your 50’s. Unfortunately, our trip to Back Bay last night didn’t exactly produce like it did in the old days. We use to to average 25 pickerel a trip with some nice largemouth bass mixed in. Tonight it was a struggle to catch a bluegill. In fact the majority of the catch were invasive rock bass. We can blame this on the county’s continuous poisoning of the weeds in Back Bay for the last 20 years.
This morning however on the main lake not too far from our family cottage, Jon and I racked up several beautiful smallies on poppers. Jon rarely gets to fish these days let alone toss around a fly. He did well. This is one of the nice ones he caught. His big one slipped from his hands before I got a shot!
Quality Smallies and lots of fun! Make some more good Ol Days!