Toad Hunter Spinnerbaits

Mission accomplished. Despite all the setbacks I had this year, today I met my yearly goal. Everything I catch the rest of this month is all icing on the cake. Not sure what's in store for me next season but I'll probably just fish my way through it, and smile while I do it.

Went out yesterday with the Mailman and we caught a pile on crankbaits. Today the temperature was 28* at first cast, first time since March that my guides were icing up. Only thing they would bite was a suspending jerkbait.

I'm pretty sure the fish didn't like the cold front and the 30 degrees this morning. Super slow day only needed one hand to count the fish, but I got one to pose with.

Went out this morning but the first spot had way too much current, so I switched to a spot I haven't fished in about 12 years.
I caught a few fish at each spot and normally wouldn't post fish of this size, but at the second spot they were just little meatballs.

The Mailman and I had us a day. Fall fishing has kicked into gear, we caught over 2 dozen. This was the luckiest catch; my spinnerbait snapped in half right when Joe netted the fish. Back at it tomorrow.

Sometimes you plan all week about wear to fish and realize you picked the wrong lake and have a crappy day. Well today was not that day, caught quality fish at two different spots but Karma did get me though. I busted Jon Ouellette about losing a nice smallmouth on Friday and I lost a quality fish in a tree today. Lol

Took a mental health day today, only caught about half the amount that I thought I would, but I got one of the right ones. Inching closer to the goal.

To say this year has been a test would be putting it lightly. Health issue, surgery and a less than normal recovery have put me a month down on my fishing so I have been getting out whenever I can to try and meet my yearly goal. Shore fished again today because "fish don't care if they get wet". Was fun watching this little guy come up from an 18 inch channel to hit my frog in 6 inches of water.

I was supposed to be in Maine this weekend but cancelled because of the weather. If I hadn't seen footage of the coast I would have said the news was just selling groceries. After a few hours of hanging around a watching drizzle and a slight breeze I decided to go cast around from shore. Caught two small ones i an hour.

Well, I've spent almost 5 weeks shore fishing and being a passenger with others.
This weekend was the first time I was able to get out fishing solo in my canoe. Caught a ton of small fish yesterday and put up some decent numbers today while landing a few respectable fish, wish this one ate breakfast before I caught her, she was a little thin.