It was a barrel of laughs fishing with Scott J. and Kapt. Here's our fishing report.

It was a great start to the day. No wind and it wasn't too cold at all.

We mainly fished the marinas with a variety of lures and big live bait.


Kapt. waiting for a strike.


Sunrise on the main river.

Kapt scored the lone pike for the day. A 25.5-incher on a large hard yellow jerk bait on the main river.


I got a pickerel on a spinner bait, and lost something small (not sure if it was a pickerel or pike) on dead bait I was twitching, but that was it. Not even one bass for the day. Normally we get a few bass.

Glad we at least got one pike, but of course we hoped for more. We'll get 'em next year.

There was frost on the bow this morning. Ice-fishing is on the horizon!