As you may have guessed since there have been almost no new posts this weekend, I spent most my time fishing and with my family, enjoying the weather (Saturday was great, wasn’t it? I don’t think I even turned on the computer).
Even though it was pretty windy and hazy with the yellow dust blowing, I went fishing this afternoon with my friends Ty, Jim and Scott out near Asan Bay and here’s a pic of the bass that were caught:
Spring and early summer, my favorite part of the year.
My buddy Rob took the day off today to do some fishing so the second my workday was over, I sped off to meet him out at the river for a bit of catching up and some bass fishing. What a beautiful, beautiful day it was and I really hated to be at work all day, knowing Rob was out on the river catching bass but that’s just the way it is sometime. Hopefully one of these days soon I’ll be out fishing while he’s at work, staring out of the window 
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First, a little Nomad tradition history: Back when I was younger, and my liver and the rest of my body could handle the abuse, I used to take a day or two vacation on my birthday and I spent those evenings celebrating with my good buddy Jack Daniels. Now that I’m quite a bit older and who knows, maybe, just maybe, a little wiser, I still take some time off but instead of getting stupid drunk, I go and do me some fishing.
That being said, I took Friday off and headed out to near Asan Bay with Jim and Ty. We thought for sure we were going to get skunked because the water was muddy from the hard rains we had earlier in the week but to our suprise, we caught a few bass. I forgot my camera, so you’ll have to take my word on that. We headed out again today and did pretty good, although we could and should have done much better than we did (more on that in a second).
Who turned down the heat today? Jim and Ty went fishing yesterday while I was up in Seoul and they cleaned up so we all decided to head out again today right after church, even though the weather wasn’t that good. Considering the wind and the temperature, we didn’t do too bad, but with the way the wind was blowing our line around, it was hard to tell when we were getting bites and we ended up missing at least twice as many fish as we caught. Here are a couple of pics of Jim and Ty holding up today’s catches:
Today was absolutely the worst day I’ve ever had fishing. First of all, it was cold and windy all day, contrary to the ‘sunny and high of 58′ Yahoo weather was predicting – it may have been sunny somewhere, but it sure wasn’t where we were, which was out on the lake in a boat. Which is a bad place to be when the wind is kicking like it was today. It was so cold out there this morning that after an hour and a half, we came back in to shore so we could sit in the car to thaw out for a while. We kept waiting for the sun to break through the haze only to find out it wasn’t haze at all, but yellow dust, and quite a lot of it. By the time I got home, my eyes were burning and I started developing a sinus headache which has since gotten worse, probably due to having the yellow dust blowing in my face all day. And no, the fish weren’t biting today because they were smarter than we were and stayed home.
We did see something interesting on the way home though when we stopped by an inlet we found last week – today, there were around 25 Koreans sitting on the bank, fishing, so we walked over to have a look and as we were walking along the shore, we noticed tons of carp in the water, splashing around in the shallows and weeds. Now the interesting part is how the Koreans were fishing for the carp, which was basically snagging them but in a way I’ve never seen done before. They were using a long rod like a cane pole, and on the end of their line, they had a quill bobber and right under that, about three inches down, was a large treble hook. They would throw the treble hook and bobber out into the water and then wait till a carp swam by their hook, which caused the bobber to move a little bit, and then they’d jerk up on the rod to try to snag the carp. We watched one guy snag three large carp in less than 15 minutes that way.
Edit: I didn’t mention that one of us (Ron) did catch a nice bass while trolling with a spinner bait but I’ll chalk that one up to luck since he wasn’t technically fishing, he was trolling 
. Just kidding, Ron – because I know it was your superior trolling technique that caught that bass, not luck. After I saw the fish you caught, I trolled all over that lake and all I came home with was a headache.
Even though the weather forecast said it was going to rain, we decided to head out early this morning to see if the fish are getting active yet and the answer is yes, they are. We caught several small bass and Jim caught quite a few really nice bluegill but unfortunately the cold rain which started right around noon cut our fishing day short. I only hope that this isn’t an omen: Two years ago, I caught almost every single bass on Zoom blackberry U-tail worms. Last year, the bass were hot on black 5″ Senkos…there were days when we were able to catch fish all day long, even if other people weren’t getting a bite. Today, we couldn’t get a bite on a black Senko in any of the places we tried and all the bites we got were on Blue Pearl-colored 5″ Senkos. Since I still have plenty of black Senkos left, I hope that Pearl Blue isn’t the new choice this year.