Jackpine and Browne Lake

The Greasy Chum, his better half, Richie Rich and I fished Jackpine Lake on Friday evening. What a beautiful, warm, calm evening. There were a half dozen anglers on the water. Richie and I caught 3 (two decent ones) on a Red Spratley on an intermediate sinking line in 3 hours of fishing. I had three other hits - one agressive on a tiny hot shot plug that looks like a frog and the other two on a small greenish 52 Buick. For Jackpine, the fishing was slow but you know what they say.....any day fishing is....better than.........(insert your choice of words here). Chum and his better half only managed two subtle takes but no fish to their boat which is odd. Chum usually out fishes everyone on that pond.

On Saturday I made an attempt to fish Browne but my five year old daughter got her line caught in my trolling motor prop and when I took it off to untangle the line, the pin that holds the prop to the shaft fell in the water. END of fishing. It was an interesting paddle back to the boat launch with my 66 year old mother at the bow and very strong winds. Aaarrgh. Would have been a great day too. The oldtimer who just got in when I launched was cleaning four very nice 18 plus inchers. For a long weekend, Browne Lake Rec site was not busy at all. Could have been the weather.