Fishing Korea

Yesterday, I had the privilege of accompanying John and Gochu, the wiener dog, in their boat out on the Anseong River for a morning of fishing.  The bass, for the most part, had lockjaw, but we did manage to catch either 12 or 13, with most of them in the 1-pound and under range.  Most of our catches came on wacky-rigged worms; I was using Senkos and I believe John was using cut-tails.  We did try just about everything else in our arsenal; spinnerbaits, chatterbaits, topwater lures, crankbaits and jigs.

The above fish made my day and as you can see, it was caught on a white/red spinerbait and in a spot I would have never thought would hold fish (which once again goes to show how much I know).  There were a lot of baitfish on the surface in the area I caught that fish, and we stuck around and tried for more but that was the only one caught there.  Heh, check out Gochu in the second pic; he’s making sure that bass won’t be giving us any more trouble.  We had a slight technical malfunction with the scale so we never found out how much it weighed and on top of that, the fish fell off the scale and was flopping around in the boat so I didn’t want to waste any time measuring it either – back into the river it went for another day.  In hindsight, I’m not sure why we didn’t take more pics…but we were pretty intent on the fishing and also checking out John’s new fish finder which is a pretty neat unit.  I also spent time watching John pitch jigs – he’s obviously had a lot of practice and was able to put that jig exactly where he wanted it every time, with almost no splash at all, which was pretty amazing.