Another PB Smallie and fishing with my dad...

[WatterBoy]

I was lucky enough to be able to spend a bunch of vacation time up at our lake place for the past 9 days, the first 4 days with just my dad and me there fishing. Here are a few highlights.

I was fishing from our dock last Tuesday night with a Bone-colored Heddon Feather Dressed Super Spook Jr. and caught a PB smallie for the 4th time this season. This one weighed in at 4lb. 3oz. with an 18.5" length and a 13.5" girth. I thought for sure it was my first-ever 5+ lb bass when I got my first glimpse of him out of the water, but I guess that will still have to wait for another time.


The best part of the trip was when my dad, who is 74 years old, caught the biggest fish of his life -- a 6lb 5oz, 30" Northern Pike. He caught it early Saturday morning while fishing from our dock with a buzz bait.


The next afternoon, while fishing for panfish from the dock, he caught another nice pike - 4lb 8oz and 27.5". He was using a 1/64 oz jig tipped with a crappie minnow.


He also landed this nice LM (2lb 14oz, 16.5") during one of the few times the weather allowed us out in the boat. He nailed it on a wacky-rigged 7" Watermelon-colored Yamasenko.


Finally, I think I caught the same LM (again while dock-fishing) on Friday night and again on Saturday morning. Fishing the same wacky-rigged Yamasenko as mentioned above, I caught this one that I am calling "Spottie", sort of a 1/10 scale version of the recently-deceased "Dottie" of Dixon Lake. (If you right click on each picture and choose "Open Link in New Window, you can see a bigger version of the pictures to compare.)