Pike season opener yesterday.
So there was a few out earlier this morning.
Raining here now, so the waters are quiet.
Fair weather folks those fishers are.
I'm going to wait till I don't have to pay for my license.
I /we didn't know it was a friends last Canadian fishing.
Had a warning one cold rainy day when I was running a boat with him in the bow.
I've recounted that before...
Anyways we were headed back to the river we had started from and trolling on the way back just because we were fishing after all , not that we were on a course expecting fish.
He had on a large Johnson silver minnow. The big single hook defended by it's metal weed guard.
And , he started getting some tunks on it.
He'd try to set the hook ., miss the fish and when progress continued and wobble started again he'd get more tunks.
I slowed just a little more and on another tunk he hooked up.
Jumbo perch!
How it got that hook in it's mouth , plus the weed guard depressed ...But he caught it.
(We were fishing pike , walleye at times too.)
I made sure I cleaned/filleted his perch for him and saw to it that he received it after cooking amidst our group.
Glad I did so more today since he's passed.
That cold rainy day was a great one for me in some ways.
Most were up there.