Monday, July 23
EverStart Practice – 1000 Islands, New York
Dan writes:
I was hoping to get out into the big lake today, but once again the wind kept me in the river. I took Jeff and Chris out with me in the morning, and we did some sightseeing, and also fished some of the areas I had learned on previous trips to the 1000 Islands area. At lunchtime I brought them back in, then returned to the river to do some serious flipping.
By mid-afternoon I was pretty excited. I had figured some of these largemouth out. I would be fishing a cove off the main river, flipping docks and boats, and I’d fish fifty docks without getting a bite until I got to the very back of the cove. There at the very end, never more than four docks from the end in fact, is where the fish were, and they were hungry. I stuck about six fish back in these places, some of them by accident because they wouldn’t let go, and I shook off eight or nine more. The last two hours of the day I spent running around just looking for the right coves, the right docks, and marking on my GPS the spots that I could run to if I had to fish for largemouth come tournament day. Though I’m confident I can catch a limit of largemouth like this, I still haven’t seen a big one, over three pounds. I’m still planning to go smallmouth fishing on Wednesday if the weather will permit.
Annie writes:
I spent my morning running errands while the boys were out fishing with Dan. I got our laundry done and did a few groceries. I had to empty out our cooler and reorganize it just so I could see what we have left in there. When the guys came back we had lunch together and then Dan went back out fishing. Jeff, Chris & I went to the town pool for a few hours. It is so hot and humid that we can do nothing except keep going back to the pool. When Dan came in we cooked dinner out on the grill, walked down to the ice-cream stand, then returned and had a nice campfire.