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Although I do love to ice fish, there's something to be said about cruising along in the yak, sliding up to what you think may be a good lunker spot, throw your favorite lure, and prove that you were right!
I fished a local pond and managed to catch the largest largemouth I had ever seen in the northeast. I mean, imagine one of those monster bass you see being caught down south, leap out of the water and scare the bajeezis out of you until you realize that it's YOUR fish, on YOUR line, and you have witnesses to see that it is indeed a monster bass?
I didn't have a scale and I wasn't going to kill it just to prove I caught it, soI had a couple that were fishing from shore take a picture on my cell.
It was probably no less than 10 lbs. (fat but) and went around 23-25" in length.
It was released to breed and fight another day!
That was in late May last year.
The same day prior to this fish I was in a deeper pocket of water and had a HUGE snapping turtle rise up from the bottom right next to my yak, look at me (as I said "Buddy, are YOU barking up the wrong tree!") and turn and swim back down to the bottom. Since the water was crystal clear, the turtle was showing its full color. Man, I wish I had had time to dig out the cell for a pic of that beast!
That's just one day on one pond from one year. I can only imagine how many stories I could tell from all my trips out on the yak.
Let's see, there's the time I was fishing in XXXX pond where the fish would jump out of the water as I paddles by, almost hitting me in the head, and where a spooked carp rammed the yak as it took off, but that's a story for another day.....
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