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I’ve decided I do not know any other sport where you stay up until midnight or later catching up with old friends, but still set the alarm for 0345hrs to be on the water before sunrise.  Only a few could understand this true passion.

Over the weekend I participated at the 4th annual Salmon Slammin’ Event in St. Catharines, Ontario.  Run by a group of buddies, we had 13 boats participate in the tournament.

This was my first outing this year on the big water and I was excited to get into some reel peel.  Not without a few fun games of poker beforehand catching up with some old friends.

Driving down to the launch early the next morning you wouldn’t even know we collectively had less then 8hrs of sleep as we were pumped to chase after some salmon.

Fishing by 0600hrs Our first fish came around 0900 hrs where I landed my personal best Chinook at 20lbs:

Our next fish came shortly after but then the next couple of hours were dead quiet.  Gavin was still feeling confident as he calls the hours of 1200-1300 POWER HOUR, as he finds a lot of spring salmon are caught during this time period.

He was right as down to the wire (we had quite the ride back and the weigh in was at 1400) we landed our limit and pulled the lines out for the long ride back.

Here is a shot of Tony’s last minute salmon next to mine from before:

We were feeling confident at the weigh in but considering the quality of anglers out there, we didn’t know how much of a chance we had.  Well except for Gavin, he had a good feeling….. and he was right as we finished first taking home the trophy and monetary prize!!

What an amazing day catching up with old friends and just experiencing some reel peel.  Can’t beat getting out on Lake Ontario when the water is flat and the sun is shining.

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