Thursday, September 22, 2016

Back in the Swamp Again

Fished with Captain Daryl and Mark. Temperature this morning was in the middle 60's and when we quit fishing it was in the lower 80's. The wind was mostly out of the southwest less than 10 knots with just a little ripple on the lake. The water temp is 75 degrees. We headed back to where we left off on the last trip and we were on the fish right out of the gate. Had to do a little more sorting today but the fish were about the same size as the last trip. Every so often on the starboard side of the boat the bite would just flat out quit but the port side stayed busy.  Tried the shiners that we froze from the last trip and they worked out just great. We just might have a new way to preserve our bait. It was a good thing that we had them today otherwise we would have ran out of bait. Kept 99 perch today.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

What method are you using to freeze your minnows Doug? Are you salting them?

Anonymous said...

I was told a Canadian trick. Put them in a little red pop(a.k.a. RV Antifreeze) in a zip lock bag and freeze them. They held up great and the fish did not know the difference.

Anonymous said...

Thanks! I'll have to try it.