Our First Fishing Adventure of 2014

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I took my son fishing the other day and it was a nice sunny spring day.

He was disappointed since he didn’t catch anything. But he spent more time trying to figure out how to use his new spinning rod and reel combo than anything else. Lots of “bird’s nests” with the string and I had to help him many times to get the string untangled.  🙂

He was using bread and a bobber to try to catch some sunnies, but the fish just wouldn’t do anything more than nibble.

However, Dad was successful on our first outing of the year!

I managed to catch a small sun-fish, a large-mouth bass and a white perch. And I was using my trusted old “best spring fishing lure” – the Hildebrandt flicker spinner.

Its a size 1 and very small, but the flickering and spinning motion drives the fish wild. If you’re interested in picking one up, you can find them on Amazon – here. (Don’t pay attention to the picture on amazon, it doesn’t have a feather on the hook!) You can see the lure if you click on my picture above to see the full sized picture.

Our fishing was done after about 90 minutes and we determined to change the string in my son’s reel to get a more limp string that won’t tangle so much.

So for all you fishing “pros” out there, what fishing line do you prefer or use. I’m interested in trying something new!

Any suggestions?

Thanks for your input and I’ll catch you later!

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First Freshwater Fish Catch of 2013

Just wanted to do a quick update from yesterdays post.

We dug up some worms, took some bread, and lures and off we went fishing!

It was a beautiful day but it became cloudy while we were fishing – perfect conditions to catch some fish!

My son started out using bread and a bobber. His first cast and he caught a white perch!

Here’s a picture of it:

 first freshwater fish catch of 2013

We fished for over an hour and our final tally was 4 white perch and 1 sunny!

All in all it wasn’t a bad start to the new fishing year!

Catch you later!