Fishing Stories and Tall Tales

[MuskieBait]

You seriously want to hear all my stories? Each of my species has a story LOL.

But okay, here's one...

When I was studying in university in Waterloo, my buddy lives in Cambridge. We often fish 3-4 times a week...including some ungodly hours.

In the fall, we often head down to the St. Catherines area to target brown trout. Since there are usually crowds during the day, we usually get off school / work and start fishing at about 8pm. It's nice to fish the night session...very little crowds...and some days you can get into a really good bite.

So one of these late November night we were fishing down by a river mouth and bottom bouncing slinky rigs for browns. I had landed 2 fish that night but my buddy was still looking for a bite. It was already 3am and it was almost time to go. I yelled over to my buddy Matt "I want to hear a fish on."

And Matt replied with a tired and unimpressed tone "Fish onnnn..."

"No, I want you to say it like you mean it." I teased.

"FISH ON!!!" He screamed with a more animated tone.

"Now that's more like it" I chuckled.

"NO! I'm SERIOUS! FISH ON!"

And darn right it was! He had a 4lb brown trout careening through the rough current trying to return to the lake. Luckily, we had lots of experience on our side and a 4lb brown is really no match for us. We had that fish in the net, smacked a couple of high fives, took a quick picture and released the fish. After the release, we both laughed very hard how everything unfolded.

From then on, whenever the fishing is slow, I would ask Matt to say "Fish on" like he means it...it has yet to work a second time

True story...no word of a lie.