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AndyS · #1 10-30-2018, 02:33 PM

I'm calling a time out, roughing the Basser !!

Jigman13 · #2 10-30-2018, 03:05 PM

:d:d:d

NorthJerzyG · #3 10-30-2018, 03:12 PM

Always love catching the target species, but I never mind some by-catch!! Nice fish!! What were the temps like and how did they fight?

Lard Almighty · #4 10-30-2018, 08:23 PM

You just caught more largemouth bass by accident than I have in the past month. Guess I should take up salmon fishing if I want any more largies before ice-up.

bulletbob · #5 11-02-2018, 10:47 PM

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Originally Posted by Lard Almighty

You just caught more largemouth bass by accident than I have in the past month. Guess I should take up salmon fishing if I want any more largies before ice-up.

He was fishing in a lake loaded with landlocked Alewives,,, Whenever they are present in a lake almost all the resident "fish eating" species abandon their natural life styles.. In other words we know that LMB and Pickerel are ambush predators by design and are typically near weeds and cover.. Atlantic salmon are stream fish.. However put them in a lake with suspended clouds of fatty baitfish, and they go where the food is, following the bait fish in open water and keying on them, to the exclusion of everything else... Bass and Pike are caught in the Finger Lakes 60 feet down over 250 FOW.. Thats not where they were designed to be, but when they key on Alewives they act exactly as the trout and salmon do, and stay with the bait... bob

icebadger · #6 11-04-2018, 11:10 AM

nice bass chris. that is a nasty scar on that fish wonder if that fish got away from a cormorant or a really big slime dart?

Chrisper4694 · #7 11-06-2018, 02:05 PM

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Originally Posted by icebadger

nice bass chris. that is a nasty scar on that fish wonder if that fish got away from a cormorant or a really big slime dart?

one or the other, unless a rogue muskie or pike got in there...

Chrisper4694 · #8 10-31-2018, 02:12 PM

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Originally Posted by NorthJerzyG

Always love catching the target species, but I never mind some by-catch!! Nice fish!! What were the temps like and how did they fight?

surface was 53, they fought pretty well.

Lard, just throw some rapalas and spoons out over the herring schools in deep open water apparently that's the bassmaster secret haha