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RonG
07-04-2006, 05:49 PM
'Hooked up with Hocky for some early morning action. I started off with a bang hooking and LOSING!! :angry: three nice smallies. I found the the smallies hitting aggressively on soft plastic crawfish imitators.

Soon we got into the largemouth.

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They say fish relate to structure. This lake lacks structure in most places, but when we found a bunch of downed timber, man were the fish relating! We saw 15-20 big bass all piled up in a school. I tried my crawfish, but the lazy bums were not interested at all. I quickly thought of what might get their attention and I guessed Paddlebugs. Good choice! I quickly caught 2 largemouth on the bugs. To my left, the Hockmeister was using Yum Dingers and was starting to annoy me with his repeated yelling of "Fish On!" :)

One of my bass got stuck in the timber and I had to go wading to get him free. As I was standing in the lake struggling with him one of the weirdest sights happenned. Five large bass came and circled around me like the numbers on the dial of a clock. They curiously sat five feet away from me checking out what was going on. It was cool!

My first-ever fish on a Senko

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Hocky with a dark, pretty smallmouth

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Mixed species bass doubles

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It was a good morning, but we still had to work for the fish that were caught.

I saw one of the coolest things ever. A bright blue dragonfly was flying past me about 6" above the water. A friskly little bass shot up out of nowhere and grabbed the dragonfly and took it back down with him.

We wanted to explore a little more, but the boat traffic kind of kept us limited to a couple spots. Spinners and crankbaits just were not working at all today. The crawfish imitators, Dingers, Paddlebugs and Senkos were the hot lures this time. :thumbs_up
almostevilboy
07-04-2006, 05:54 PM
so what kind of boats did you see in your way today?:no:

yo did'nt jump on dat damn crane did ya? lol
RonG
07-04-2006, 05:56 PM
so what kind of boats did you see in your way today?:no:

Two guys in something small (carried in) with a trolling motor.
Midnightrun
07-04-2006, 05:56 PM
BOATS YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING!!!!!!!!

In the middle of the day?:thumbs_do
almostevilboy
07-04-2006, 06:08 PM
nice, i have thought of doin that in that spot many times but never had the balls to try it....bet they did pretty good...:thumbs_up
Timmy
07-04-2006, 06:09 PM
Great Report!


Happy Independence Day!:thumbs_up
Bassbuster
07-05-2006, 11:32 AM
Great report guys, have to love those bass.
outdoorgirl
07-05-2006, 12:16 PM
Sweet! :thumbs_up I love that place!!:thumbs_up
Steve D
07-05-2006, 12:37 PM
Hi Ron,

Nice fish guys! You guys did the right thing, when the fish are not aggressive, it's best to slow down. The only exception is Darth. Darth can use a spinnerbait to catch even negative fish. He is just good at it.


Steve D
Hocky
07-05-2006, 01:30 PM
Hi Ron,

Nice fish guys! You guys did the right thing, when the fish are not aggressive, it's best to slow down. The only exception is Darth. Darth can use a spinnerbait to catch even negative fish. He is just good at it.


Steve D

Darth who?:D

I have some pics to post as well, but haven't had the time to do it yet. Maybe tonight if all goes well.
Hocky
07-05-2006, 05:12 PM
As promised, here are some more pictures from our outing on the fourth. We had a great time talking fishing and a few other things. :zip:

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RonG with one of the many very health fish we scored that day.

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And another. By this time the weather was starting to warm up a bit.

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One of the half dozen I caught fishing a line of brush on the quarry. They were all about the same size and all very healthy. They were caught on a YUM dinger using a St. Croix medium light rod with a Shimano 50mg bait caster. I have it spooled up with 10lb moss green Stealth. This combo makes for a very light setup.