At launch it was beautiful the sun was coming out the waters were quite calm and it all fell apart after that.

We made a run about 20 minutes to and area that we had caught some 4&5 lb largies and thought we could finish a respectable finish with 20+ bags but old mother nature had things already in place like this cold front moving in as we were pulling up. The winds changed the sky darkened and the temperatures drop very quickly. We held on to our plan for the largies until the trolling motor had had enough of fighting 3ft swells. We didn’t pull in any bass at this spot but i did manage my personal best Northern Pike that probably would have weighed 15+ and you wouldn’t believe if i told you. Dropshot leech on 8lbs fireline. Who would have guessed that one, we thought we had the smallie of the tournament on the line. There were some 7+ smallies pulled off this area in past years so our hearts were pumping until she finally showed her toothy grin. I can’t put into words the disappointment all we wanted to do was get her back in the lake to make some other bass angler think they’ve got the Simcoe record on their line.

We realized plan A was not working and went to plan B another point were we had some smaller smallies in practice so off we went. The winds were really howling at this time of the morning and it only continued the rest of the day saving the best for last. We did the best we could without a trolling motor and fished our hearts out. We managed two smallies off this point but that was it and the winds were really making there presents so we decided not to risk getting stuck out here and made a slow drive back. We were lucky enough to ride a few 6ft waves to make the ride back a little more smooth.

At one point we high fived each other for narrowly stuffing ourselves into one of those beasts. Although we were plenty ready with our survival suits on to take one of those for the team. We made it back safe and sound, dry and warm and even managed a smile or two.

It was not the 25lbs+ fishing day i had hoped for but i had a great day with Dianna and it’s another story in the book of life.

There’s a new girl in town and her name is Madison Peloza. She’s my niece from Thunder Bay,On and every summer my sister and her family come down to Keswick, Ontario for the annual summer vacation.

But this year was different with new job obligations and children getting older the time together is getting shorter and shorter. The only two to make it this year was my sister and Madison. There is one thing Madison looks forward to every summer is coming down to go bass fishing. We would always struggle to get her and other children to wear their life vests but this year was different. I lent her my PFD and away we went. We were out there for 7 hrs and there was not one moment that i had to remind her to keep it on. It was so comfortable to wear for her she forgot she even had it on. A day on the water when you aren’t arguing with children to keep the PDF’s on is priceless.

When she was younger we started her off with the small fish perch, sun fish and the occasional large mouth. But as she grew so did her fish, she no longer would settle for the baitfish she wanted to go get the big girls. She said she was ready and at the ripe old age of 11 she was. We took out on to the soon to be famous Lake Simcoe where 7lbs small mouth are now residing. Although we didn’t go for small mouth that day we went for old reliable largies.

I can’t tell you how many she caught that day but here’s a sample of two of them. As you can tell by her pose and fish handling, she’s done this a few time.