They again call me the Fishin’ Magician – because it seems I can sure make them disappear.
For several years friends teased me about my abilities to just show up and stop a hot bite. Some teased I deserved an award from an animal rights group. Others joked that when I showed up the great blue herons all headed to another lake.
Fisheries biologist Craig Johnson fishes for white bass with no luck Monday evening. Was it just tough fishing or was their a jinx in the boat?
For awhile it looked like the curse was over. I had some great crappie fishing last winter and spring. Some local bass trips were memorable. I was mean to the northern pike on a fly-fishing trip to Canada.
But two recent trips to El Dorado Lake with two of the areas top anglers and we totalled four fish on what was thought to be a “can’t-miss” pattern.
You can read more about it on Sunday’s outdoors page. Who knows, maybe I wasn’t the problem? Maybe it’s just been an unusually tough year at the lake.