Practice Day 2

I made it to the ramp in Orillia at 7am this morning to find an inch or so of snow on the ground. I got some really strange looks from people in the park as I was putting the boat in the water. I can't blame them because after the day I had, I don't really know why I was out there. It was a tough, long, cold day...on the bright side I was able to eliminate a lot more water.

I started out around an area I am very familiar with where I found some awesome looking deep water structure this summer that I was hoping would produce this fall. I didn't mark a single fish out there. I fished and drove around until noon before seeing the first fish of the day. After fishing deep all morning and not catching or marking a fish I moved up on top of a main lake shoal. I was using a Rapala X-Rap with a custom tied feather treble hook on the rear. On my fifth cast or so with it I got a solid hit about 15 feet from the boat. It came off as soon as I set the hook. I got a look at it and it was a bass around 4 lbs. I messed around up shallow for another hour or so with nothing so I decided to move to another area of the lake.

This picture sums up my day. A lot of looking an no catching. I couldn't believe how many fish I was marking in this area of the lake, but nothing would bite. I highly doubt they were even bass based on the way they looked on my Lowrance LCX-38c.

Tomorrow I plan to launch out of Barrie and fish Kempenfelt Bay and some of the western shoreline. Hopefully it will be more productive and warmer.

Lawren