Have I lost my touch?

[Ely Lake Expert]

Alright here is my story. One of my good buddies is a cityboy living in the northwoods. He has lived here his whole life but never did much for outdoor stuff. This summer after I have told him thousands of times how fun fishing is, he finally decided to take up fishing with me this summer. I like to do alot of rapala fishing.So the first time we go out I set us both up with rapalas, the first time I caught 10 fish to his 2 and I got some humor out of his attempts of setting the hook going though weeds. The next day I caught 11 to his 1. A few days later we go out again, finally he quits being stubborn and listens to some of my simple tips, That day he caught 9 to my 0 So the next day we go again and again he catches 8 to my 1. Those 4 days were all rapalas. So just a couple of nights ago we went out night fishing with crawlers and again he caught 4 to my 1. We are both using my rigs with similar setups and now he thinks it is hillarious that he keeps catching more than me. So did I lose my touch or is there an exteme case of beginers luck going on here? ( I better catch more tonight)

ELE

[marine_man]

I'd just chalk it up to being a outstanding guide, and not having time to fish since you're working so hard on getting him on the fish

marine_man

[mtreno]

its all about the guide service

[Wayne Ek]

Listen to them, the guide is not supposed to catch the fish. That's my story and I'm sticking with it...

[ocf]

I have to keep that one in mind with wanting to become a fishing guide in a couple years

[MidCoast]

I think you have... Getting out fished by a ROOKIE!

[Northlander]

Ya Ely you have lost it man. Quit fishing and bring me all your gear Sat.

[webdude]

Could be the 'ol proverbial beginner's luck?

Reminds me of a few years back...

We stayed at a cabin on a very small lake near Gull with a guy we worked with from England. He had never fished before. My buddy and I took him out fishing for bass and such. We all had a fairly good time. Around dinner, we decided to head for the cabin and grill up some steaks. The cabin had a small rowboat we could use and the guy from England decided he would row out and try his luck, solo, while we started the grill. It was a quiet, calm day with a lot of families playing on the beach and getting ready to sup.

This guy rowed out to the other side of the lake while we got the steaks on. No sooner had the steaks hit the grill when every one on the beach heard screaming from the rowboat... "I caught a bloody monster! I CAUGHT A BLOODY MONSTER!" (ya gotta imagine this being shouted by a guy with a very heavy British accent)( ya also gotta imagine every person on the lake hearing this)

You could here something big flopping in the bottom of the rowboat... you know the sound. Mr England made a bee-line to the shore with a big grin on his face. We ran over to the rowboat and sure enough, he had probably a 15 lb pike flopping around the bottom of the boat. Not sure how he got it in, but it was there - no net or nothin'.

All I gotta say is I think he got hooked. I hadn't seen this character for about 5 years when I ran into him at the local big warehouse hunting and fishing supply outlet type place. He was loading up on tackle. Seems that he bought a new Lund, fully loaded, had a wide variety of rods, tackleboxes, tackle the whole bit. Said he fished for just about everything... Sure got him bad. Also said he hadn't been back to the Island for quite a while. A regular Minnesota Fisherman now

[Ely Lake Expert]

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Ya Ely you have lost it man. Quit fishing and bring me all your gear Sat.

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HA HA, funny

Anyway, we went out fishing last night. Started about 11 pm. The bait of choice last night was crawlers on a spinner/crawler harness. So we start trolling the shallows of my favorite rocky shoreline. First pass, nothing. Second pass, he gets a fish on, I see it coming across the top of the water I laugh and say "nice rockbass, those are my favorite" being sarcastic of course. As he swings it towards me he says "it doesn't look like those other rockbass" I didn't want to believe my eyes, it was a 10 inch crappie. We keep trolling catch a few sunnies and toss them back. Then he gets a good bite, fights it, almost to the top it flashes its big white belly, dives and snaps the hook right off the line. My buddy needs practice tying knots too. It was about the 21-23 inch range. My battery on the trolling motor was getting low so we decided to make one last pass. For some reason he let out about 60 yards of line. All the sudden he starts reeling and says this is way heavier than that last one, as I watch the rod bend I am sitting here thinking to myself that I was about to watch him catch a bigger walleye than I have ever caught before. After about 7 minutes of reeling he has it straight down over the edge of the boat. It had all the charecteristics of a big walleye just trying to sit and not come off the bottom, so I say tighten you drag slightly so he did and it started coming up. As it got to the top I am ready with the net, I burst out laughing. He caught a dirtbike tire off the bottom of the lake. I must of laughed for 15 minutes. He fought it so hard his arms were getting sore. Though he caught 1 more fish than me I think I got a better laugh.

Ryan

[Dan Thiem]

Got a great laugh out of that myself. Thanks E.L.E.

[ocf]

i gotta 6 pund northern on and had my line way to far out(more than a hundred yard) im fighting and fighting and soon there were 5 or 6 boats around watching thinking it was a big eye. all of the sudden it stops fighting so i thought it was weeds and then i start reeling it in to get the weeds back on. meanwhile the boats are starting to leave. all of the sudden the fight was back on and it took quite a bit longer to get it back to the boat. i think that had to be the most fun i have ever had while fishing

[Northlander]

Thats like Musky Hunter catching a 10 speed bike in the river with his anchor. I pull up and say "How ya Doin" he says " I got 2 26"ers" Im like "wow show me" and he points to the front of the boat and I see this rusty old bike.

Had to be there.