Fishing Korea & Tennessee

Rob and I took the boat out on the Pyongtaek river today and although the fishing was tough once the sun rose, we did manage to catch some bass.  The weather couldn’t have been more perfect; there was little or no wind at all and for most of the day, the river was like glass.  Today, the bass were hugging any kind of cover they could find and that’s where we found them – mostly in downed trees.  We caught a few decent fish, but most of them were on the small side – until later in the afternoon.

The four above were the only ones worthy of having their pics taken.  We had one pretty cool episode (except for the way it ended); as we pulled up to a sunken tree, Rob saw a really nice bass in the water, slowly cruising along the side of the tree.  I didn’t see it, but once he told me which was it was heading, I threw my Senko about five feet in front of that area and immediately had a hit.  The fish, which was at least three pounds, grabbed my wacky-rigged Senko and I set the hook – and then the fish jumped out of the water and threw the hook.  Blah.

I had to take my daughter to base this afternoon to take care of some paperwork so Rob dropped me off by the cars around three o’clock, and then went to another area.  As my daughter and I were driving on base, I told her that with the increased cloud cover and cooler temperatures, I bet Rob was doing better in the late afternoon than we had done during the day – and wouldn’t you know it, a few minutes later, Rob sent me a text message that he was cleaning up at the spot he was at.  Here are a few of the pics he took:

Some of these fish are definitely in the post-spawn mode, check out the tail on this one:

All in all, it was another great day.  Hopefully, we’ll get another few like it in before the heat of summer arrives.