Night fishing returns to the Loveland Fishing Club! Bring your flashlight

 

An invitation to fish! (With long explanation to follow) 

Where: Boyd Lake. Meet near the jet ski ramp

When: around 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, Aug. 28th

The following has been posted to the blog, http://lovelandfishingclub.blogspot.com

By Bill Prater

Loveland Fishing Clubbers tend to be a tradition-loving folk. But as we advance into our Golden Years, we also tend to forget what  some of those traditions were. 

So it’s with considerable satisfaction that Jim Roode remembered that it is past time to resurrect a club tradition informally known as the “Great Boyd Lake Annual Night Catfishing Expedition.” We haven’t been out there bobbing around in the dark since well before Covid, but remember it sure was fun.  I dimly recall we didn’t catch many fish, but hey, we caught fish. And I clearly remember the absence of the more annoying aspects of that lake right down the road:  

• The jet ski and paddle board crowds are home tweeting one another from their Mom’s basement.  
• August heat is a distant memory.  
• A delightful, rare silence settles upon the cool, clear water. Surely there’s got to be a gullible fish out there somewhere. 

So some of the club’s most distinguished anglers – right now that’s me, Jim Roode, and surely Darrell Knight and Wayne Baranczyk– will meet around dusk at the Jet Ski Ramp at the state park to decide the most likely spot to drop our lines. You are welcome to join us. 

We four will be fishing from our float tubes – including Jim’s new watercraft and Wayne’s new waders and new life preserver (ask that tight wad why he sprang for new gear). But a more productive way to cat fish is probably from the shore. Also, if you launch your motorboat before the stop ANS inspections, I believe you can fish in dry comfort all night long. We in the belly boats will listen to our spouses and/or bladders, and wrap up around 11 p.m.  

As a locally famous philosopher/angler (okay, me)  wrote: “It may be a dumb idea, but it’s an idea.”  

And who knows what might be lurking out there in the cool, deceptively clear water of our local fishing hole? If there is an expert night catfisherperson in the club, he or she stays pretty damned quiet. But if you have suggestions for a successful trip, send them to Lovelandfishing@gmailcom. And then get out your night gear.and come along.

I myself plan to bring a few worms, maybe some leftover shrimp, possibly some kind of stink bait, like the stuff we used on that ghastly night fishing trip to Lake Glen Elder in Kansas a decade or so ago. (Come to think of it, that was another brainchild of the late Norm Englebrecht, the club’s legendary planner of questionable field trips)  

Looking back at some of the more questionable things the club has done over the years, this one’s pretty mild,  and could even result in tasty catfish fillets or a memorable photograph. An even dumber idea – a night belly boat expedition next month to the wind- and rain-swept Delaney Lakes - is still in the planning stages. 

If you’re planning to get in the water with us, remember to bring a life preserver, whistle and light. Bank anglers just need mosquito repellant and a comfortable chair. Best way to catch a catfish? I dunno. As I kid I did pretty well with night crawlers or catalpa worms under a cork. But you kids these days don’t even know what a cork is. We’ll figure something out. 

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