Right after I smack you with this snow ball!!

Fish on!! I will get the net.....

family fish day!!!!

My favorite fishing buddy

It was a nice frosty November morning, then this happened!

A couple of weeks ago, I got out on Constant Lake, which is a smaller lake in zone 15 here in Ontario, to help my good friend Brett Miller prepare for an upcoming tournament. I also invited my friend Dennis Collette, the owner/operator of Big D's Dog House and Poutine Emporium. Located in Stittsville, Ont., it's one of my favourite places to eat. We started the day at 8 a.m. The weather was sunny and quite warm for being October. There wasn't a wisp of wind to be found and the lake looked like a sheet of glass. We came up with a game plan and headed off to start our day. Our first stop was a big weed flat in 12 feet of water. I started the day throwing a Mimix Jaws buzzbait on a seven foot six-inch Quantum rod. Dennis was using a spinnerbait while Brett started with a drop shot. We trolled around for about 20 minutes before Brett hooked into a 3.5-lb. largemouth bass. The day started off looking very promising. After about an hour without any other bigger bass, we decided to run down to the end where a creek feeds the lake. We trolled into the mouth, pitching and casting on both sides without any luck. The water in the creek was a lot shallower with sparse weed. We got further back into the creek when we could see rings in the water on either side of the boat just on the edge of the weed line. By this time I had switched to my seven-inch Bass Pro Shops Bionic Blade rod and Plueger President spinning reel. I threw my Wave Worm Tiki Bamboo stick right to the edge of the weeds and watched as my line took off to the right. I set the hook and reeled in a nice little 1.5-lb. largemouth. Two casts later, using the same set-up, I reeled in another largemouth about the same size. After a couple of hours and a lot of same-size fish, we decided to try another part of that end of the lake. We trolled out of the creek and across the bay that opens from the mouth of the creek. As I was flipping my stick bait to random patches of weed, I lifted up my rod tip and felt some weight. I reeled down and pulled back hard and brought in a nice 2.5-lb. largie. Brett had switched to a wacky rigged worm and Dennis had changed to a different colour spinnerbait. Without having any signs of any lunker bass in the area, we made a short run to a nice little drop-off and dropped the trolling motor, cruising up the shoreline, casting to the shoreline and adjacent bay mouth. We decided that since the big bass from the morning came from 12 feet of water, we'd find similar areas. I started throwing a Paradise Tackle Football Head Jig tipped with a Blackhawk Custom Baits Caw Trailer. I was determined to catch something as I had been throwing that set up all summer with not so much as a sniff. Dennis switched to a black and red spinnerbait from Ottawa Valley Custom Tackle. On his third cast, he caught a small pike that was twice the size of the spinnerbait. With all of us catching fish now, the pressure was off. We followed that shore line for the next half an hour without any more bites so we ran to a bay full of lay down logs and trees. We trolled through a stump field where we could see a lot of the same rings we could see earlier in the day in the creek. We took repeated casts at these circles and started catching fish after fish after fish. While none of them was really big, it was still nice to be able to catch a bunch of them. Just before we called it a day, Dennis cast his black and red spinnerbait into a hole in the weeds and was retrieving it when he pulled back hard. He ended the day with a beautiful pike. The colours and patterning on this pike were beautiful. Fall is a phenomenal time of year to get out fishing. While we didn't find a bunch of huge fish, we still managed between 30 and 40 fish between the three of us. Sometimes catching a number of fish is just about as much fun as catching some lunkers. I would say that's one of the best trips I've had all year while spending time with some good friends.