Had the day off work. Went to a new lake. I didn’t care for it at all. It’s a nature park in the downtown area. Really nice place. But choked out in weeds and very steep drop off banks. Just made it hard to fish the way I like to fish. Got a few bites and one that wanted to be 3 pounds but just wasn’t on a buzzbait. Killed time and rode around running the motor since I don’t run it often. Fished the pond by the house caught a ton of 1 pounders on caffeine shads.

Final had a chance to make the 1:30 drive down to the Conowingo (PA/MD border) for smallmouths. Caught this LMB on a tube with blood on its belly.

Caught my first Klash 9 fish and it was one of those heart stopping blowups.

Also had to throw some BFS...

And the underspin continues to produce,,,

Had a great week of camping and fishing up in the Adirondacks.

We arrived and set up camp, had something to eat and a few adult beverages.

1^st day we fished one of the lakes where we fished last year and had some of the best freshwater fishing we ever had, big fish and a lot of them.

Well this year the numbers were good but mostly small fish, we did have a few good ones, all smallmouths. My buddy and I  both had over 25 fish that day and lost just as many.

Next day we tried a different lake we’ve never fished, this lake was a no motor lake, not even electric.

I went one way and my buddy the other, I did really well on numbers and they were all good sized largemouths. My buddy absolutely blistered them in numbers and size.

Saturday we fishing a river, we launched and went upstream for about 3 hrs and drifted back to the launch fishing along the way.

The fishing was slow, I got a nice smallmouth then not too much lost a few along the way.

My friend was ahead and saw some fish wakes where a creek came into the river.

This was the spot, we each hooked up with a couple of good smallies, a largemouth and my friend got a nice Pike. A lot of action in just a small part of the river.

It was getting late and we had to get moving to get back to the launch.

We also got into black flies, my buddy knew to put on the bug juice, me no, not a good decision.

The next day was a rain and wind day so we went exploring and wound up in Lake

Placid where we went to the Olympic Center and museum which was really cool.

Then we had to find a drug store as I had a bad reaction to the black fly bites.

My hands and fingers blew up like a balloon.

Not to be deterred we went to the River Trail Brew House where we had a couple of great beers and an equally great lunch.

Next day weather wasn’t that great so it was another day of rest.

So our last day to fish, weather looked great with a 10% chance of rain. We went back to the no motor lake and this time we both headed to where my friend was the previous day. It took a little while to really get on them, but when we did it was a fish on just about every cast, and they were all pretty much good fish, again it was all largemouths which surprised us as the water looked like classic smallmouth water with rock all over from boulders to gravel.

We lost count of the number as we would get one and release it as fast as possible and cast again and get another one.

We had a little rain shower but not much. We then heard thunder and dark clouds in the distance but the radar showed it had missed us. A little while later the wind got cold and dark clouds were coming in. We both said we better get back to the launch. We were about a 1 ½ to 2 miles from the launch. My friend headed right to the opposite shore and I headed right toward the launch. Well before we knew it the wind picked up and it started raining, and it soon was a torrential rain, the water was boiling. We were in the middle of the lake, thunder cracking, soaked and cold, then to top it off it was now hailing. It was the wildest weather we’ve been in on the kayaks. Pelted by hard rain, wind and hail we both made it to a shore line and waited it out. We finally made it back to the launch. We walked up to get our wheels and bring the kayaks back. We get back and changing clothes when to top it off we got into the biggest mosquito swarm I’ve ever saw. They were all over us.

We finally were able to load up the kayaks, get in our vehicles and put the heat on.

We agreed we weren’t scared, but we were concerned.

Back at camp we did say it was a great day of fishing.

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