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Be Ready for Winter With “Tiny” |
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For those of us who look forward to hard winter fishing, slow developing winters such as the one we’re presently “enjoying” are very frustrating. Summer during summer months and winter during winter months I say.
But “patience is a virtue”, is another saying, and so while waiting for ice to reform over your favorite fishing holes, there are some activities that could still prove useful. Things that I am just beginning to think about during a normal season but this year is not normal. I’m referring to switching to very light tackle to match their slow metabolism that often begins to occur in mid February to lighter and smaller.
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From the windows of the little restaurant where we stopped for breakfast, several specks of lantern light shown on the lake’s surface. Our enthusiasm for getting out on the ice for the first time had resulted in an early arrival, and only then was the gray show of dawn appearing in the east.
We finished our food and headed for the parking area next to where we’d chosen to go out and fish.
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Old Billy Took Us Fishing |
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The fall had been extremely wet and unusually warm, much like this one. We, Harry and I, had been planning a fishing trip to the river where Harry had been catching some big carp and I had been interested in accompanying him and learning about carp fishing. But every time we planned to go, it would rain again.
Finally, an early November Saturday came when a warm sun greeted us and so our often delayed plans were put into action and Harry came to the back door calling. He never knocked on the door but instead climbed into the first big crotch of our apple tree and just yelled “Richard!”
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I got a new fillet knife for Christmas, and while I didn’t ask for it this is one of my favorite gifts. Not just because my wife probably found the current edition of such knives and saw that it looked more like an ice pick than a functioning knife, but because whenever I see a fillet knife I think of steaming platters of winter caught pan fish.
When I was a kid looking over my dad’s shoulder at the fish cleaning process, I noted how much work went into it and how the little buggers were still bony and usually tasted “fishy”. Even then I thought there must be a better way, but filleting looked very difficult so I didn’t try it for many years.
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When Winter Doesn't Arrive |
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“Where in the world is there enough ice to need that thing?” my neighbor asked as he watched me unloading my auger and other ice fishing equipment from the back of my truck. I had just returned from an unsuccessful visit to some of the lakes near my cottage and was wondering the same thing myself.
“The refrigerator. My freezer,” I joked.
And then on a slightly more serious note I mentioned a lake or two a hundred fifty miles north that I thought “might” be iced over.
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