Spruce and Farrington Weekend

[Andrushkin33]

Friday Night - Spruce Run

Fished from 8pm till 4am

Convinced couple of my friends to go out for some night time fishing and off we went to Spruce.

Idea was to hit the pike a thon early as soon as it was good to go. But no pike was waiting for me. I heard them laughing at me but none wanted to do anything with my bait.

I guess that kind a night that it will be. We caught pretty much everything else. Smallmouth, largemouth, brids, yellow perch, white perch and catfish. Everything but the damn pike.

Had my waders so covered a lot of shore ground. That is until I tripped over a damn log in a water and went for a swim. To my surprise both camera and phone survived my ordeal but was forced to keep on fishing while wet and pissed off.

Herring was spawning everywhere but the feeding time came at about 12am. Never saw anything like that. Fish was all over the spot where we were, literally inches away from us. Place looked like it was boiling. Came to the point when it started to freak me out a bit since it felt like we were being attacked by pirannias or something. Was a sight to behold.

Saturday was suppose to meet up at Dundee but was a bit burned from being up for 25 hours so took it easy.

Sunday went to my nemesis Farrington looking for that elusive pike. Crappies, smallmouth, yellow perch were all hooked on regular basis.

Finally something far more dangerous grabbed my line and I heard it scream. Now we are talking I thought to myself only to pull out my shiner with his head missing. Sweet I thought. Only pike or pickerel or snapper can do that kind of damage and I was willing to find out what it was.

Answer came shortly. My other rod started to sing to me as well and this time I would not be denied. It was something heavy and making a run for it. Was already thinking how finally my dream of catching a pike would finally happen. A bit later that dream came crushing to the ground. Damn snapper. damn you to hell.

Ended up catching two of them. Ended up giving the big one to another fisherman who was fishing next to me for his pond and called it a day.

Overall great fishing days, great catches but still not what I was hoping for.

Fish on everyone and tight lines.

Pics are coming.



Andre