Fishing: Back to Basics

As an urban angler with a busy schedule, I have set out to try to fish frequently this summer by utilizing short amounts of time available to me. This morning I was fishing from shore in a fairly deep pool I located when walking. I had fished here yesterday morning, having only one worm that I lost while removing some discarded fishing line that some unethical fartknocker left behind. While I was busy doing good, my bobber went down and when I pulled in my line, the worm was gone. Subsequent casts with the same lure I caught a northern on last week, were fruitless.

So this morning I found three worms and attached a hook to each one so it wouldn't crawl away. I then casted into the pool on the edge of the lake—and immediately caught the sunfish in the photo. I caught and released about eight more in the twenty minutes I was there. I used all three worms and none of the sunfish were very large—but it was fun anyway. In fact, it reminded me of a time when I was a young child at my aunt and uncle's cabin on Mitchell Lake where I would stand on the dock and catch sunfish, perch and bullheads all day.

Now, as an urban angler, I remembered fondly how much fun that was; and I look forward to fishing with my son when he gets just a little older.