Humbled on JPP
It was a rough few days on the Priest for this guy! lol.
Took friday off to get up super early to get a good island camping spot cause thats what the wife wanted to do....ok cool! first 2 spots were taken but i found a nice place, secluded in a little cove on the north side of bear island. There was an older, half delapitated tent in the woods, bags of trash around so i figured its all mine. Unloaded all the stuff, and set up camp to look livable to a passer-by. Did some fishing, cruising, lunch at elm hill then went and got the wife from the dock about 6. pulling into our little cove, i see a group of dudes unloading all thier stuff and im like WTF!!! Corps site says primitive camping is First Come First Serve. We told them we had more people coming and it would get kinda crowded in hopes they would take our polite hint and hit the bricks in search of thier own plot. Wasnt happening! so we proceeded to take over the entire place, rock fire pit and all to let them know we would not be encroached upon especially with me getting up at 4:00am to secure the friggin spot! so needless to say, that was the first of many kicks to the cherries for me!
Fishing was spotty, lost a small fortune in cranks, my front lowrance unit is on the fritz AGAIN. The unit just freezes every minute or so for 10-20 seconds. Found some scattered yellows chasing bait and got some respectable blue gills jigging a spoon in about 10ft of water. I then decided to try some trolling cause i was marking alot of bait and fish in 12-25'. So i attached my Alumatrac brackets on the rail and trolled. Had some hard smacks but never hooked up. Decided to call it a day. I had to take off my rod holder bracket to get the trolling motor stowed, so i started unscrewing the thumb screw....flip, splash, sink! $20 rod holder and im guessing at least $30 for the alumatrac rail bracket, i guess i will find out when i order another one. I swear, if i had a rod in my hand, i would have went all Mike Iaconnelli on it, cussing,breaking it and throwing it over board ! LOL. I laugh about it now, but it seemed EVERYTHING went wrong the past few days! lol.
I couldnt find any amount of bass anywhere either. 1-2 here, 1 there, ect. Not sure what my deal was but i was off my game or something. Still a good 2 nights camping though aside from the group of "bro's" that invited themselves to our camp site.
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