06-07-2024, 09:33 PM
(06-07-2024, 09:17 PM)Paddler Wrote: I admit it, I'm a confirmed no-bait troller at heart. Except for kokanee, for which I use grocery store peg corn or Berkely maggots. Although they're at opposite ends of the fight per pound scale, I fish for walleye the same way I fish for albacore. Artificial lures only. And I fish for kokanee the same as I do for ocean salmon, downriggers pulling flashers/dodgers ahead of squids or spoons.
As I get older, and I'm getting up there, how I hunt or fish is more important than how much I kill or catch. I'm happy just being out on the water or in the marsh.
The water temp went from 66.5F to over 72F yesterday, warm enough to troll 2.5+ MPH. It's just a matter of locating fish and putting the right lure, (action, size and color) at the right depth at the right time of day in front of their noses. Simple, right?
Yep. Simple. But not always easy. Kinda like trying to figure out what your wife REALLY means when she asks for something or tells you to do something.
Getting up there in years? I turn 81 in July. And I am with you on the purpose of the trip not just being to bring home the fish. As they say about other things in life..."The journey is its own reward."...or something like that. At least that's one excuse us old-timers have that doesn't work as well with the younger set when they have a poor catching trip.