7/14/08- Surveying Another Canal

Kous and I inflated the raft and we headed back to the canals off of the Woods Park. At first we were considering returning to the first canal we fished a few days ago, the canal that yielded us the most results. I decided in the last minute that I wanted to survey some more canals in the area. We paddled over to the entrance of the canal which was around a shallow point here we had a strange encounter. A goose that I assumed was a male kept squawking at us and flew over at us once. I thought this was a bad omen and it turned out it was for a while as the Sawn kept following us even into the canal. When we got a little out of sight of the sawn and we began fishing. I was throwing the usual wacky rigged Baby Brush Hog and Kous was throwing his Yum Dinger. Kous had no luck with this as he casted around. I kept throwing my Brush Hog right against these wood pilings that acted sort of as a break wall. I got some solid hits doing this but didn't set the hook on anything. They felt sort of dinky anyway.

We headed down the canal more and the water was getting more and more shallow, there were a few little inlays in the canal that housed a few lilly pads. I threw my new top water Scum Frog and got nothing. Kous threw his Pop-R and caught the first fish of the day a Largemouth that looked to be close to four inches long. As we paddled farther down the canal we got nothing. So we decided to leave. The wind was blowing with us out of the canal so I decided to let us just drift out and cast around while were leaving. We continued to get nothing as we drifted through the shallows. Kous got pissed so he put on a long minnow in perch color and just trolled while he was falling asleep. I had continued faith in my Brush Hog and I kept throwing it until we reached the wood pilings I originally had luck in and around. I threw the brush hog right on one and pulled the line tight and I got a big hit, set the hook and it turned out to be a pretty good Largemouth. It tailed danced two times that scared me, because I couldn't afford to lose yet another good Largemouth, fortunately I kept him on shifted over and lipped him. He measured up to be 16 inches and 2lbs 1oz the biggest fish caught in the Captain Kurtz my boat. It had a ton of leaches in its mouth which was a little odd I thought. I turned him loose and he whipped a good amount of water all over me. I threw it near a metal wall and got another solid hit I set the hook and started reeling in, I fell out of my seat when I was reeling in and he did a tail dance and threw the hook, straight up which was pretty cool to watch.

We left the canal and headed back to the Woods Park, we decided we'd try the top half of the first canal because its really close to the loading ramp. I paddled us in and we started casting again Kous with his Yum Dinger and me with my Baby Brush Hog. It wasn't too long before I hooked up with another Largemouth, I set the hook and reeled in another good Largemouth Kous lipped it for me and I had another solid Largemouth that weighed 1lb 7oz. Getting me out to a lead for the week of 3lbs 8oz. Those Baby Brush Hogs really do work. That's all for now.

Thanks for reading, Bass-Sniper