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I met up with John (his boat) at 0615 to try for smallies out of Algonkian. Curly and Paul were also going out on Curly's boat.

While it was a bit chilly at the start....



....once the sun started to peek out, it was perfect!



We started all the way up at Lansdowne but could not buy a bite so John asked me to reach in his cooler for this!



OK...now I know what's going on. So we continued to fish and John starts looking for one of his rods. It seems that it was missing and I didn't steal it. Somehow, it went into the drink...way upriver.

We continued to fish but both of us knew we had to go back and look for it. We started down from where he last remembers using it and about 200-300 yards later, there it is in the water! We retrieved it and high fives were given. With all the excitement, I forgot to take a picture but it's burned in our minds.

Another thing that's burned in our minds was the birding today. Lots of them capped off by this guy!



We continued to strain water with our lures and with a 1/4 of the trip left, I get slammed (jerk bait) with this  channel cat.



Finally, the slunk is off.

Then we heard a hissing noise and couldn't figure out where it was coming from. Motor? Seat cushion? Bad gas?

Nope....this guy!



I then tied on a very technical lure, the Ned Rig and this 13 incher obliged!



With a few minutes left in the game, John's grub got slammed and he had a nice smallie at the end of the line. I was getting ready to take an action picture and the fish came by the boat, looked at us and spit then hook. Disappointment abounds!

At the ramp, we ran into John F getting ready to do some yak fishing and JR was launching his jet boat. I hope they caught all of the fish that ignored us!

Anyway, the fishing was slow, the company was great and the day was spectacular!