Oro-Medonte, Ontario

Quite a cold and windy day. Gave up early after there were white caps all over the lake and had enough of getting splashed. Had a lucky smallie pretty early on with the Ned, but not even a shadow through the rest of the trip.

Didn't have a scale but definitely biggest bullhead catty I've caught. Ontario record is 2.6 pounds

Caught a nice rock bass

Beautiful evening

Feeling discouraged and annoyed at my poor performance yesterday at Ken Whillans, I changed my trip from the blackwaters up north to the clearwaters in Orillia. I think this was an attempt at some sort of a mental redemption for screwing up in the crystal waters from the previous day... With a combination of arriving late, wind, other fishers, forcing myself to throw flies for the majority of the day and a psychological pressure to do better, I struggled hard. No fish would commit to the flies, even though 3 large ones followed up to the boat. Switching away from flies, eventually I managed to hook a big pumpkinseed and a little guy. Hours passed and frustration built up. A bass boat passed by and caught a fish near me, and I mentally crashed. I could no longer keep myself enthused. On my way back to the launch, I stopped a few times as I passed rock fields. As if giving me a consolation prize, a 2.5lber nibbled the dropshot worm and I let my 2 day's of frustration into a solid hookset. I think I need to take a break