Fishing over the weekend.

[Darryl - swazies]

I was able to get away from Sunday until Wednesday this week. Went up north fishing, the season is early so some species still not ready to be fished.
I took the jumbo Joe up for the cooking. Did burgers, sausages, 2 picanha roasts at the same time with some smoke. It was a pretty big hit with the other guests....
The jumbo is a little unique, only cooked maybe 4 times total on it now. If you just have a medium fire on it and it will look like it's not hot at all, you can get it red hot in a matter of a few minutes, the same goes for cool down, works pretty good too. And the burn out when the food is done, cools off in record times.
I like it, just need to get used to it for sure. Limited room makes me use a temp probe a lot less for sure, so the guessing is my game now. The kettle that I love is what I am used to and know how it works very well, I don't want to start getting confused now....
Anyways the weather was perfect....no rain, cool nights and about 70 - 75 while I as there.
Caught a few nice fish and I have a few pics I wanted to share.
I'm not sure if these are native too far south so if you want to know what they are just ask.
Thanks for looking.

 

[Lynn Dollar]

Tiger Musky ? Or just Musky ? Makes that largemouth look puny.

That had to be a lot of fun on the end of a fishin rod.

 

[Bill F in Ontario]

Nice looking fish you caught there Darryl, where up north did you go fishing .

 

[M Craw]

Nice catch! Thanks for sharing.

 

[Rich Dahl]

Looks like it was worth the trip for sure.
When I first got my JJ It was a little bit of a challenge to get used to it vs. my performer. But when I did get it dialed in it was my go to grill for Barb and I.

 

[Darryl - swazies]

Tiger Musky ? Or just Musky ? Makes that largemouth look puny.

That had to be a lot of fun on the end of a fishin rod.

That Musky is the tiger type......
It was about 30 inches or so, the scale on the boat only measured up to 24. I also had no weight scale but it was between 15 and 20 pounds I believe.
That large mouth was tiny in comparison....but the best one I could get in the boat....about 1.5 pounds.
Normally I fish for northern pike......but it's been a while since I had a 30 inch fish on the end.
10 pound braid power pro and it felt like a nice fish, then it got close bent the rod right over and started pulling out my drag.....
It was a fun fight, might go back in a month to see if all his friends want to party on the boat too......

 

[Darryl - swazies]

Nice looking fish you caught there Darryl, where up north did you go fishing .

I was fishing on Pigeon lake. It is mid Ontario, a few hours south of Algonquin Park.
With less time on the water last year it really did feel good to get out and spend some relaxing time on the water.
I don't even know why I golf because this was 1000 times more relaxing than getting mad at everything I do on the course.

 

[Darryl - swazies]

Looks like it was worth the trip for sure.
When I first got my JJ It was a little bit of a challenge to get used to it vs. my performer. But when I did get it dialed in it was my go to grill for Barb and I.

Yeah that bbq reacts super fast to any changes...
I had some seriously darkening happening with burgers and within 5 minutes everything was under control.
Much faster than the performer......I miss that performer though, it's only been 5 days since I used it but I am going to use it tonight with the vortex and some tasty jumbo wings. It may sound silly but I use the E6 strictly for smoking ( so far anyways ) and the performer is like a wizard, it does everything and anything I want it to and I just need to use this JJ a bit more, I like it but hard to cook for a lot of people on it.

 

[Joan]

I was fishing on Pigeon lake. It is mid Ontario, a few hours south of Algonquin Park.
With less time on the water last year it really did fell good to get out and spend some relaxing time on the water.
I don't even know why I golf because this was 1000 times more relaxing than getting mad at everything I do on the course.

I am sooo jealous. I love fishing. Don't remember if I posted this story, but one year DH and I rented a house boat on this river. One day I wanted to watch TV, so I just opened a window, stuck out my fishing pole and laid back and watched my show Talk about relaxing LOL. That was a fun trip. My happiest days on week-ends/vacations have been ones where we go fishing.