Bass Fishing

mazatlan mexico ara is amazing, we fish for billfish, rooster, snook and just one hour away for bass in lake el salto, i believe it is the only place in the world where you can do this type of combination.

Friday, July 4: Using fresh anchovies for bait, we spent most of the day on our dock fishing. We'd heard there are plentiful catfish near the shore rocks and under the docks and piers, but we never caught any. On the other hand, we did catch 12 striped ...

... little fighters.  I had a lunker on, but he got away... he was THISS BIG!!  I may return on my trip out... bass fishing... I miss you. So I head to Port Alberni where I plan on looking for a fishing guide tomorrow, and stay at Sprout Lake ...

... water and immediate action ending mostly in the fish getting fed and us having to re-thread a worm. MJ tried his luck at bass fishing which involved sending a fake orange thing with a hook on the bottom out into the lake and then reeling it back in ...

... river is small by most people's standards (just 10 to 15 meters), so one consideration was overhanging tree branches.  Fly fishing requires different methods of casting, and here we often relied on "roll casts", a technique that allows the caster to ...

... out too great. We decided to try Dick's Bay as we heard you could catch crappie there. After about 2 hours of fishing we had one keeper (a rock bass). The wind was kicking up so we went in between the Potato islands again to find some shelter. In the ...

... in search of viewing my first live moose and then camping out for a few days on a lake for some serious fishing! After that I have absolutley no idea where I'm going or what I'm doing and that's just fine with me.   Thats ...

Wednesday, July 15th: It was another cool and windy day, but no rain, so we headed out for some fishing. We headed for Dick's Bay where Leah caught a nice crappie, and we got a couple of rock bass. We were fighting the wind all morning/afternoon, and ...

Up with the roosters....literally!  I still have sea legs from our fishing trip this afternoon.  The entire family went offshore.  I am shocked that the girls liked it so much they happily agreed to do it again Friday morning.  We ...

... it's before 10am on Sunday morning.  What a great start to a beautiful day. After our meal, we proceeded on the the secret fishing hole, a sizable pond on a farm close by.  Notice the fishing pole that I am holding.  It's got to be at least ...

... back.  Jared had some better luck and also caught three perch and a catfish, we threw all of them back.  We ended up fishing for about 2 hours until it got dark.  Then we headed back to the RV to filet our fish, bread and fry them up for ...

... recent years Capt. Mike has been closely following the nesting habits of local bald eagles and osprey and will take interested fishing parties to see nests from the river vantage point.  It doesn't disturb the birds and delights children and adults ...

... their fishy smelling clothes.    We did manage to get in a couple games of dice before bed but it was an early evening for all of us. Even though Joette and I weren't out fishing, we were still up early so were ready for bed earlier than ...

... of A.S.Adventures. Waaaaw, huge, big, well, as expected in the US!! I saw large fish, little water turtles,  hundreds of fishing rods, and all the outdoor clothing and equipment one can imagine! It took me a little less than an hour walk to go ...

Monday, July 13th: We headed out for our 1st morning of fishing with Seth and Luke in the boat. We thought we'd try our luck in the Potato islands area. We caught 16 total fish (6 for Luke, 10 for us), all rock bass save one perch. We ate ours for dinner ...

This morning was another good morning of fishing.  Tom & I took Seth & Leah back to the Potato Islands spot for another round.  This time, although we had a little wind to contend with, we were able to come away with 17 fish total (11 ...

... people on the beach but those there, particularly the dogs, seemed to be having a good time. At Land's End there were people fishing for flounder and Warren got pictures of a seal in the water.   We walked back to the camper and Warren and I ...

... two fish with all the rest catching except Ross who must be given full marks for effort. The largest fish was a 1kg big mouth bass hooked by Mike and landed by Cassidy. The ideal conditions were topped by the timely delivery of some ice cold beers by ...

... and spend the day with us. Can't wait to see them and the kids. Finished off the day with a trip up the river. The Bass fishing was incredible. Bass on every blowdown tree. They were killing the senkos and spinnerbaits. This should be a great ...