Friday, July 20
EverStart Practice – 1000 Islands, New York
Dan writes:
The campground we’re at is down at Chaumont Bay. My plan is to spend one day practicing in Chaumont, another day out in the big lake – Ontario, and the rest of the time in the St. Lawrence River, nearer the tournament site. Chaumont is about an hour away from the launch site on a good day, and it’s usually loaded with fish, but on a bad day it is a place you just cannot get to, so you have to have a backup plan.
I fished a few hours in the morning with the boys, dragging tubes around mostly, but didn’t do too well. After I took them in around lunch-time, I went back out for the afternoon and figured out how to catch ’em. These fish didn’t want a slow bait – they wanted to chase something. I caught about twenty keeper smallmouth by throwing a 3/4 ounce TERMINATOR spinnerbait in the afternoon, and had a five fish limit that would have weighed about thirteen pounds.
Annie writes:
I went driving around town, lost most of the time, looking for a new campsite that would be closer to the weigh-in. I finally managed to get us in at French Creek Marina, right were the weigh-in is going out of. It is pretty much just a piece of grass, but they will run electricity out to us, though we will have no water. What a difference from motorhome camping.
I must say that people sure treat you differently when you come in with a tent, rather than a luxurious motorhome, and you know what? We are the same people, motorhome or no motorhome, but for some reason people do not seem to realize that. I’m not saying that people are treating us badly, or are rude, it is just different. When we arrive someplace in our motorhome, everyone thinks we are famous and wants to be our friend. When we arrive with the tent, we are just the average Joe. You know what, I kind of like that.