{"id":9480,"date":"2012-01-30T15:09:20","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T20:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.adirondack.net\/dacks\/2012\/01\/catch-anything-this-weekend.html"},"modified":"2017-11-08T11:17:42","modified_gmt":"2017-11-08T16:17:42","slug":"catch-anything-this-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.adirondack.net\/dacks\/2012\/01\/catch-anything-this-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Catch Anything This Weekend?"},"content":{"rendered":"
\nMy father and most of his friends always have the same answer when somebody asks them, “how’s the fishing?”<\/b> They all reply, “the fishing is great, the catching isn’t so good”<\/b>.<\/p>\n
And they’re right, fishing is great whether you catch anything or not<\/b>. Catching fish definitely adds something to the experience, you feel like you’ve accomplished something, made some progress. However, catching nothing accomplishes something too<\/b>. You learn what works and what doesn’t.<\/i> You learn who to fish with and who not to fish with<\/i>. You learn where to fish and where not to fish<\/i>.<\/p>\n
I went fishing on both Saturday and Sunday mornings, at the same place, with different people.
\nSaturday morning I went fishing with father, one of his friends, and a few other guys\/girls that we all know pretty well. We stopped at the Crossroads in Chestertown<\/b> on the way up there for some bait, and I grabbed a delicious egg sandwich. We picked up two dozen icicles <\/b>for bait.<\/p>\n
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My father and I stepped onto the ice at a little after 7:30am, and had 10 tip-ups and two jigging lines in the water by 8:00am. Almost immediately after setting up, we got a flag<\/b>. It was my father’s tip-up, so I brought the bait pail over and watched patiently as he set the hook and pulled a Large Mouth Bass<\/b> up through the ice. A Large Mouth in January. Yay.<\/p>\n
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