Father & Daughter Trip To Chestnut Hill Res
Last Saturday I took my daughter fishing at Chestnut hill reservoir. It was a cold overcast morning but the fish where out. She is getting more interested and mature about fishing...she asked me to check the reel and put some WD-40 on it to keep it casting smoothly. I had her start out throwing the Vibrax minnow spin but she felt that it wasn't fishing deep enough so she tied (herself) a size 8 crappie hook with Berkeley honey on it. She had me set the depth on the bobber and started casting at the bluegills.
She got frustrated because she kept missing strikes, I took her rig and demonstrated how to set the hook again and reeled in my first Bluegill of the season. I gave the rig back to her so that she could try again. Two casts later she hooked up with her first Bluegill of the 2011.
Then the bite shut off. So we move to the spot with the tree over hanging the shore, where she caught her first carp. Then she caught another 'gill but he took the bait and hook.
I tied on a Bomber A that a pickerel struck but did not hook up. So I downed sized to a 3' silver rebel value minnow and hooked up with 7" inch pickerel.
We got cold so we left before lunch time.