day 356 4-9-2010 Fri 9 to go

Day 356-9 to go
4-9-2010 Fri
6:00PM-7:45PM

Weather: SE8, clear, 61°, 29.97, rising

H2O: 643.27' falling, 69.6 kcfs, 52°, clear

Caught

Nothing

Location: Mississippi R. Pool 7 – upper end of Lake Onalaska

partners:

None

Comments

Tonight was one of those nights where not only was the fishing bad, but lots of other things went wrong. I did have about a thirty inch northern come un-buttoned at boat side. I also had another hit my spinner-bait immediately after it hit the water. I set the hook but missed and that same fish kept on nipping at my bait on that retrieve and after missing it six times I finally connected on it. The fight did not last long because the fish cut my line. About thirty seconds after cutting my line the fish jumped out of the water in an attempt to dislodge the strange meal it had engulfed.
When it was time to leave my trolling motor would not release from the deployed position and my front light was as dark as a starless night in the north woods. When I got back to the landing I had to take the trolling motor bracket apart in order to lift it out of the water and into the boat. This is the part that got painful. The dam thing smacked me in the head as I was trying to stow it. I am hoping tonight is as bad as it gets for the season.