Sunday it was off to Long Sault for some carp fishing, now I at home loading my gear when my son anounces he wants to come Now geoff is not really a fisherman and I had brought him carp fishing last year hoping the pull of these carp would turn him onto fishing well the results of that trip were less than spectacular 6 am to 5 pm in the rain and only 1 run that I screwed up on and missed ......my first ever skunk carp fishing
Now I didn't think I would ever get him out again so was really pumped that he wanted to come out again . We arrived about 6 am and claimed a spot we had never fished before but we thought had promise, we quickly baited the area and set our lines I put one with a pinapple boily popped up and one with popped up corn , John set his with a strawberry boily , about 8 am Johns bite alarm screams and he lands this guy scale wasn't out yet so we just measured him and released him, 34 inches estimate 20 LB's
thye next fish also came in on Johns a 16.6 lb mirror
at this point John turned his rod over to geoff also he 's now got all three rods , my line finally fires I grab it as I'm the closest barly get to feel wieght when the 12 lb mono gets cut off on the zebbrasI'm now starting to panic . Johns rod fires and Geoff jumps on it but John doesn't use a bait runner ,just backs off his drag , lots of confusion and another fish gonewell when the next one hits on Johns rod again we defer to him niether of us want to try that again
he brings in this little guy
now I'm resigned to getting skunked again ,and even worse Geoff getting skunked at 2:30 one of my rods finally goes geoff is on it quickly , now both John and I want Geoff to get this fish and it's taking line , Geoff handled it well considering the two of us are shouting instructions, I think I would of told us to "shut the .... up " when we finally see the fish we both realise this is a big fish and I realise it's on the rod with 12 LB p-line .and the rocks in this area are full of zebrasI could see the rod tip jumping as he rolled on the rocks , well To geoffs credit he ignored the two old farts shouting at him and managed to land this monster 30.1 LBs an awsome first fish and well worth me getting skunked