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Wierd pose, like I'm trying to show off my hat...

Mixing Huk with Columbia - like putting a Shimano on a Daiwa rod ?

3 minutes ago, J Francho said:

Mixing Huk with Columbia - like putting a Shimano on a Daiwa rod ?

Or Lew's on a Kastking rod...

 

Those shorts are pretty comfortable.

 

Don't forget the Zekos...

3 hours ago, J Francho said:

Mixing Huk with Columbia - like putting a Shimano on a Daiwa rod ?

guilty

[ August 24, 2020 ]

 

 

[ 0.415 lb shy of a New Personal Best... ]

 

 

WolfyBrandon

 

Finally had a break from softball games and a couple hours to get out after work today. It is still hot and when I got on the water it was still 88 degrees. One bite in the couple hours, but if I can only catch one, I guess a 4-02 is better than nothing. First good one I have caught in a month. That time on the water sure makes a difference.

Hit the Tittabawassee up today. Made it as far up stream as state street in Saginaw before, I chickened out over the depth.  Kind of a slow day only caught 3 and this one was the best.  Caught on a LC 1.5 I forgot the name but it’s in picture.  Lost the fish of the day at the boat on a chigger craw. 

A stiff westerly wind had a few shallow water bass chewing today ~ 

A-Jay

Huh, you actually caught a Large Mouth?

I know ~ I think he was lost.

Seems like an invasive species round these parts

A-Jay

I had a small job to look at out on Georgian Bay today, so the kid came with me and after I checked out the job we headed for the big water and proceeded to hammer the smallmouth once again. 
Well over 50 bass between the two of us, and several nice sized ones as well. Largest was about two gobies shy of 5lbs on the scale. 

Had a great weekend with friends that were visiting our area. They stayed on my favorite lake and I was able to fish at their cabin’s dock. I caught this nice Largemouth on a T-rigged Rage Menace.

 

 

We also fished and kayaked at my local river. I was able to get some fish on the Whopper Plopper.

 

 

And the Blooper

 

5.8 lbs. New PB. Worth getting rained on.

Only one over 3 this afternoon. Storm rolled through about 2:00 and rained enough to rain out the softball game so I was able to get out for a couple hours. This one hammered a Siebert Grid Iron Jig in black/blue with a smallie beaver trailer. Just 3-10 but I have fished longer periods with nothing to show for it LOL

 As I was heading to the ramp at 0530 I noticed the outside temperature display on the trucks rear view mirror was 54 degrees. This was a drop in temperature from yesterday morning’s 63 degrees at the same time. I was hoping this might get the fish thinking fall was not too far off and start putting on the feed bag. 
 Dropping the boat in at the last half of an outgoing tide, water temp was at 75 degrees and change. What became a blue sky thanks to firefighters battling the regional fires for almost two weeks I wasn’t disappointed by the fishing. I was able to hookup with a drag pulling 5.2lb crankbait fish to start the morning off right.
 I then switched tactics and started to punch the mats. On one pitch, an area the size of a garbage can lid rose up and a good fish came out of the vegetation. I watched as the fish crashed down my bait and then my rod loaded up. I set the hook and felt the fish for a brief moment before reeling in a trashed bait covered in grass. My second best of the day, a 4.8lb punch fish, also that came from the same area a little while later. 

On 8/27/2020 at 1:05 PM, BurrStone said:

5.8 lbs. New PB. Worth getting rained on.

Yes it is ? 

Have a couple dozen crawlers left in the fridge still that the wife doesn't want in there anymore, so the boys and I did what we could to use some of them up. Since it was just the 3 of us, I decided to give Finn the chance to actually fish. Smashed the barb down on a little #6 octopus Gammy and put a split shot on. Found one of my favorite rock piles on point right on the edge of a grass line and put half a crawler on the bottom with his little dock demon and told him to pull if something pulled back. Didn't take too long before he had his first fish he'd hooked and reeled in by himself, a little redear sunfish ? We caught several more panfish a few small bass on the crawlers before we had to head for the house.

 

Thursday I drug my johnboat to a lake that I've never done well at. I was given an inside tip that I was missing out and what I needed to do differently and determined to figure it out. After the first 1.5-2 hours, I was really feeling like I'd made a mistake. I'd caught 1 8" bass and that was the only bass bite I'd had, but from what I was told, I needed to keep going. It was slow going because my gas motor is out of commission on this boat again, which is important for later, so I had my 40lb bow mount TM and a 30lb transom mount TM. Finally caught a 14" fish on a black and blue jig and shortly after that, another one. Built a little confidence, and really just picked up the jig rod and fished. Caught one of the better fish I'd been promised, but it was skinny.

Noticed there was some clouds building and it appeared to be raining a little to the southwest of me, which there had been no mention or sign of when I got there. I was about as far as I could get from the boat ramp at this point and had a never ending maze of trees between me and it. A little rain wasn't going to stop me though. I spun the boat and skipped a cast into a standing cedar and my line jumped on the fall. A super fat 19+ inch fish had inhaled my jig.

There had been a road grater tearing up the roads around the lake making all kinds of noise and I heard a boom, thought he'd hit something hard. Then I heard it again and a rumble, obviously distant thunder, but still lots of sun and blue sky and very little sign of even any rain. Made a few more flips before tossing into a laydown and another good fish inhaled my jig.

It started rumbling to the west then, and I knew I needed to get moving. Put the front motor on 5 and turned the back motor on 5 and just went as fast as I could. It started sprinkling, then raining, then sporadic lightning. I was stuck, nothing I could do but go as fast as I was going and hope for the best. I was hitting targets as I skated by and had another good one catch my jig as it was falling in a deep cedar.

I was still a half mile from the ramp when it really let loose. Dumping rain and constant thunder, although I never saw the lightning. I was hugging the south bank to stay out of the wind as much as possible. Still 100 yards up the lake and across it from the ramp, I had my best gap in the trees to make my way across and went for it. I was 50-70 yards off shore when the front really showed up, along with 50+mph wind gusts. Not sure how nothing blew out of the johnboat. It was pretty helpless knowing that was the fastest I could go and trying to get out of it. Checked my PFD to make sure it was still showing green on the cartridge in case I needed it or needed to put on a foam one instead. White caps started churning across the lake even though they were coming from the shortest direction, it was the fastest I've seen a storm build and hit that I can remember. The last 50 yards was a battle because the wind and waves were almost more than my dual trolling motors could fight against to get me through the last tree line, but I managed to bounce through them and slam into the bank finally. Got the reminder of how hot and sunny it was when I got there when I saw the wet inside of my truck from leaving my windows cracked. I was already soaked so I just walked into the water to push the boat onto the trailer instead of fighting the wind. Of course as soon as I did that and got everything put in the truck it started to let up.

 

So, not the biggest bass, but it kept me from getting skunked. 
 

We were basically unscathed by Laura until we caught the trailing rainband yesterday. Booming T-storms and huge downpours. When I got to the pond this morning the water level was high, but the turbidity of the water looked normal. But definitely put the bite off. A shame, as my daughter and her fiancé are here from MD and I was hoping to get him on at least one decent bass. But even my “never fail” WR did not get one strike. But this did:

 

 

I know the trailer is a 3.8 Keitech in sungill. The jig? Man, that’s probably 40-45 years old and I have no clue who made it or what it’s called. I didn’t even work it. It hit it as soon as it hit the water. 
 

Never caught a bass on a jig before. So far this year (since May) I’ve caught bass on plastic worms, a spinnerbait, a topwater (Whopper Plopper 75), a swimbait (the Keitech 3.8 on it’s own) and now a jig. All firsts. 
 

What’s next? 

Headed out for the first time in a few weeks due to terrible weather on the days I could go (100*+) or extremely hazardous air quality from the smoke of a couple of CA's largest ever fires drifting in. Fishing was pretty terrible, but it was still great getting some time out on the water with my dad. Best fish of the day was a 3-4 pounder on a Slammer before sunrise as I was waiting for him near the ramp, but of course it got off at the boat as I was grabbing the net so it doesn't really count. 

 

As they say, including a pic of the sunrise means it wasn't very good fishing...

 

Pops with a rare one pushing 12" for the day. Can't even call it a dinkfest when you catch less than 10. ?