Over a Hundred Fish in High water!

Yesterday I took out Greg and Moody. I haven't fished Moody since last spring, but Greg fishes with me all the time. They wanted to catch a hundred fish. We had about a unit of generation. The sun was high and the fish were HOT! At first they had a little competition going on, but after a while it turned into a team effort. They where smoking the fish. It was out of control. By 2:12pm they had reached the goal of 100 fish. We decided then it was time to bust out the streamer rods and catch some hogs. Doc was on fire! He was catching a 18" plus fish every drift. It took Moody just a few minutes longer to get in the groove, but he ended up catching a few nice ones as well. The total tally for the day was 115 fish! We had several fish over 20 inches. It was dynamite. What a fun day it was and a great way to break in a new boat!

22/11/09 - Lands End - Johns Lake

Weight – 54lb 15oz
Catch – 13 Crucian, 9 Carp, 9 Roach, 4 Bream, 3 Tench
Weather – Windy & showery
Water Temp– 11.0c > 11.0c

No match today, instead I took Richard Higgs fishing, who recently brought a load of 2nd hand kit. Rich has fished before, but now wanted to go more regularily and he has been pumping me for information, so I suggested a trip to Lands End

Tony had a match on Match & Speci, so I settled on fishing Johns lake, but with a windy day forecast I set up on peg 55 at the far end of the lake, with Rich on peg 54. At least these pegs are a bit more sheltered and the wind usually comes from behind, so I could fish the pole.

I kept things simple fishing pellet or corn at 13-14m, feeding 3mm pellet & corn. Initially potted pellet & corn every 3rd fish, but it became obvious the fish wanted feeding and a toss pot of feed every put in kept the fishing coming.

Most of the silvers came early in the session, on soft pellet, but as more feed went in the carp arrived and most where caught on corn. I also caught a couple carp on the lead, cast into the swim on peg 57 opposite, when ever the pole swim went quiet or the wind really picked up.

Overall a nice stress free day. As for Rich he caught his 1 and only a carp 1st cast on his carp rod, but I set him up with a waggler so at least he caught a few silvers close in.

Sunday Deer Processing and Trout Fishing

Weather was perfect today, so I got the kids outside! They had a blast watching us cut up the deer and when we were done we had about a half an hour left to catch a few fish. Trout were biting like crazy! I will let the pictures tell the rest of the story of this picture perfect day in then middle of November:

Can Your Mom Do This?

Mom will kill me when she finds these pictures online, but I just thought they were pretty good! She skipped church today to help me skin and process 4 deer and then when we finished cleaning and packaging em we did a little trout fishing. Not too bad for a 50 year old lady!!!

'Living the Dream Works' New Fly Fishing techniques

Dave Wood and Myself have started to do video footage of our fly fishing techniques to improve all anglers methods on catching more fish..

Please click on the link below to watch our first video, 'Still water techniques'

http://whiskyfish.blogspot.com/2009/11/glen-pointons-living-dreamworks-episode.html


Enjoys

Glen

Video fish porn for your viewing pleasure.

My Illinois Shotgun Opener Buck

I got to my stand about 5 am on Friday morning and had to wait an hour and a half in the pitch black before legal shooting light. Time slowed down to an eternal crawl during that span of waiting, but thats not all bad these days. Anyhow, I was hunting this stand for the first time, and was pretty excited to check out the new surroundings as the light began to arrive. Pretty much everything looks like a deer early in the morning before the sun rises.

Chad walked me to the stand, and even placed a nice doe decoy and apparently dumped some deer urine on it out in the opening 20 yards in front of my stand. Here was my view from the stand:

It didnt take long for the action to warm me right up! At 6:56 am two bucks came trotting along the trail together and came to a complete hault when they came across the stinky decoy. The first buck was a nice tall 8 pointer with fairly thick beam, but abnormally narrow spread. He was definitely the smarter to the two bucks, after sniffing the decoy he looked right at me and quickly jumped on ahead about 10 yards but then stopped. It was like he knew exactly how to get his 'friend' killed! His friend sniffed the decoy as well and I think that urine got the best of him. He too looked over to the right and stared right at me as well, for actually about 30 seconds we stared right at each other, but after our glaring contest he just couldnt get his mind off of the pretty little lady just standing for him.

The moment he turned his head, I lifted my H and R slug gun, placed the crosshairs on his heart and without hesitating fired the slug! The buck spun around 180 degrees and ran full speed about 25 yards directly head first into a very small pond. His head went completely underwater and his back legs kicked furiously for about 30 seconds before he finally drown.



Last year I shot my first buck in the first 10 minutes of the season, and this year I had him down within the first half hour of legal light! I can't actually take any credit for either buck, because my cousin and brothers are the ones who do all the scouting. I just do what they say and sit where they put me and pull the trigger. This is my 2nd buck and 13th deer harvested overall, and I can thank them for every single one of them.