Backwater Casting show six
This year I am fishing out of a Mercury powered Triton 21 TRX so it seemed fitting to invite our Triton rep, Jim Lacey, to be a guest on the show. Jim graciously agreed and flew in from Ontario to spend some time with us.
We headed up the Benton which is, I believe, a Ducks Unlimited impoundment that was created with a low dam on the upper reaches of Eel River. It has created quite a wetland area which has got to be great for the migrating waterfowl.
Most of the flats are too shallow to be fishable for anything but Chain Pickerel with the Smallmouth most sticking in or near the original river channel.
The bite was a little slower than I would have liked but by the end of the day we had boated a decent amount of Smallies along with a ton of Pickerel. Jim was a great guest and as you can imagine he can handle a boat quite well and actually has a Triton 21TRX back home. Just to be nice, I let him run the trolling motor so he got first shot at some of the cover and besides it was a little windy and it was nice to get off the pedal for a while.
This was pretty basic fishing with both of us switching back and forth between Trigger X Flutter Worms, Senkos and Tubes. We were using 6’6″ Crucial Rods, 2500 Stradic FJ’s and 8lb Seige Green mono. The fish tended to hold close to pads and grass points that touched on the channel edges. The odd one came in the small coves if there was any depth to them.
As expected, the Triton performed flawlessly.
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