Michael82929
07-16-2012, 09:17 AM
Same routine as last weekend..
Outta work and up to the lake.. had dinner.. got on the water for a 730/evening bite for an hour before the little guy had to go bed...
Fishing the bottom with a shaky head / gig - ended up with a nice largemouth / pickeral - and capped my evening with a 7lb striper...
Fri Night - feed is off - fish arent breaking and blowing up the water like last week. interesting part of the evening was walking out my side door is complete pitch black only to hear the breathing and grunting of a black bear. Didnt see him but he had to be in the driveway.. way to close for comfort.. went around the front door with the flash light but when i banged the door as hard and as fast as I could, i must have spooked em.
Ended up with two stripers and missed a few before calling it a night.. Didnt fish Sat - but my brother did - had to work hard for em - windy as hell on the lake - blowing 15 - 20 all day...
Sat night - was calm enough to go for a little bit at night - same thing as the night before - no blowsup no feed - ended up with one striper and one LMB - figured go back and fish the AM - since I had a buddy coming up..
Sunday AM - buddy gets in at 730 - have breakfast and told him about the fishing - I told him i wanted to switch it up.. wanted to fish the pads and see since structure hasnt been panning out..
Well glad I did.. went up to the top of my lake - I call this spot the rainbow since you fish about 500 yds of lilipads in a rainbow - takes about 40m to fish one drift
We never left - fished for 2hrs = 10LMB all 15 - 18 inches / missed 5 - 6 some really nice - 2 pickeral. Action was constant.. He ended up bailing and went crappie fishing with my son and ended up with 40 black crappies throughout the day (all 1 / 2 pds)
Outta work and up to the lake.. had dinner.. got on the water for a 730/evening bite for an hour before the little guy had to go bed...
Fishing the bottom with a shaky head / gig - ended up with a nice largemouth / pickeral - and capped my evening with a 7lb striper...
Fri Night - feed is off - fish arent breaking and blowing up the water like last week. interesting part of the evening was walking out my side door is complete pitch black only to hear the breathing and grunting of a black bear. Didnt see him but he had to be in the driveway.. way to close for comfort.. went around the front door with the flash light but when i banged the door as hard and as fast as I could, i must have spooked em.
Ended up with two stripers and missed a few before calling it a night.. Didnt fish Sat - but my brother did - had to work hard for em - windy as hell on the lake - blowing 15 - 20 all day...
Sat night - was calm enough to go for a little bit at night - same thing as the night before - no blowsup no feed - ended up with one striper and one LMB - figured go back and fish the AM - since I had a buddy coming up..
Sunday AM - buddy gets in at 730 - have breakfast and told him about the fishing - I told him i wanted to switch it up.. wanted to fish the pads and see since structure hasnt been panning out..
Well glad I did.. went up to the top of my lake - I call this spot the rainbow since you fish about 500 yds of lilipads in a rainbow - takes about 40m to fish one drift
We never left - fished for 2hrs = 10LMB all 15 - 18 inches / missed 5 - 6 some really nice - 2 pickeral. Action was constant.. He ended up bailing and went crappie fishing with my son and ended up with 40 black crappies throughout the day (all 1 / 2 pds)