Drove up here last night, 3.5 hour ride with my buddy Gary. Very cold night woke up to ice on the boat.

 

Hit the ramp at daylight and were discussing muskies. First ten mins into it he brings an almost 40" fish to the boat. We didnt bring the fish in the boat as we had no net big enough nor bogas and didnt feel like possibly ruining the trip with trebble in the hand. Caught it on a jerkbait on a spawning flat.

 

I lost a big one this morning, gary put 2-3 smallmouths and a largemouth or two in the boat. Nice fish but nothing to get too excited about. We also caught some rockbass and a few red ears when they could get rocked by a 3/0 offset. Amazing fishery, my first time here and I cant even imagine what it must be like when theres no wind and a cold front. It was 32 degrees this morning when we left.

 

Oh yeah, our cabin, a simple space heater in it to keep warm. I sure was glad I brought my 20 degree hunting bag.

 

The ride back was INSANITY. 26mph winds made for an interesting trip from the north end. Some of the roughest water I have ever seen.

 

Came back in around noon, gonna head back out here in 20 as the wind is supposed to quit. Put it like this, I would never even remotely consider putting my 17' tracker in this lake if there was wind over 10mph. At times we probably had 5ft of air coming off of waves and frankly I am not a fan of that.

 

Ill update this either tonight or tomorrow.

Well we went out and wrecked em. The wind really never left up. Both lost a 5lb+ smallmouth near the boat. My buddy even caught 5 whitebass on a jerkbait.

 

Other than the big smallie on the jerk that I lost I caught almost all of my fish on a perchy(chartruce, brown back, orange belly) bomber or bagly, I cant tell what it is its so old.

 

Not bad for a day where you probably couldve taken one look at the lake and said no way.

 

Locals told us last week was absolutely killer with the warm days and the cold pushed the fish back out. Most people we saw caught nothing so I feel we had a great day.

I love that lake. It is only the North Winds that pose a major problem. I have a 14ft. Crestliner that I take on that lake all the time and have been out in 20mph winds with it. It was not fun, but it handles the situation fine. Do you have any pictures?

Only this one, I was going to take my good canon, forgot it in my boat as my starter bracket was being fixed along with my kodak zx3 video cam.

 

Snapped this with his phone.

 

That is an awesome photo!!

We wanted to get the fish in the boat but it was massive, his bass net wouldnt even hold 1/3 of the fish lol. Only reason he was able to land it as you can see was the fish only had the jerkbait in its mouth, thats only 14lb mono.