They said they missed me.

I said "Tell me about it ! "

 

A-Jay

Today was a lot of fun despite the heavy rain.  I caught this guy and a couple of weird ones..  

I caught a yellow striped bass and a silverish-gray walleye.  I wish I got a pic of the walleye though.  It was about 6-7lbs.  No brown or green at all.  I have never seen anything like it.  

 

It was perfect weather for fishing here today. Wind 5-10, temps around 80, partly cloudy. Biting great!
I fished from 430 or so to dark. Ended up with 35. Caught probably 2/3 of them on June bug speed worms, and the others on flukes. These were the best ones...caught on flukes. I’m hoping the bloody fish made it- he swam off.

On 4/24/2020 at 9:06 AM, long island basser said:

I moved to greene county last year....so I guess I’ll have to change my user name to upstate basser

Oh, how sad. One less hardcore bass slayer out there catching my fish. Heartbreaking...sniff. ?

The Tittabawassee River was packed with walleye fishermen.  Like as in so packed I’ve never seen the parking lot so full.  Usually I don’t hit the titt untill after the majority of the walleye leave. There will probably be over 300 boats launched out of center street today.  The river was literal race track.    However, it was 65 and sunny and we are supposed to get rain all week.  Being I wanted to use the boat and that was the closest launch. Away I went.
 

 Picked up an almost 16 inch smallie  on a 3/4 war eagle silver head with white,green, and blue skirt spinner bait.  Caught another smaller smallie and a sheep head on a zoom green pumpkin tube.  Felt good to get out again.  
 

I was throwing the spinner bait on my Walmart clearance  falcon rod with an slx reel.  First fish for each. the slx is so nice 

Got out for a few more hours today six bass total. 3 lm caught on 3/8 oz black/blue chatterbait and 3 sm caught on 1/2 oz white spinnerbait.

All caught on a pause in the  retrieve.

Best of the day 3 lb 6 oz.

 

First of the year last week -- 3 hours in the afternoon, WT was low 40s, but got one (14") to take a rage swimmer shallow:

 

 

Little bit better one (17") this afternoon, best of 7, on a red shad senko:

 

Got on a few decent ones today. Biggest about 3 pounds. Dragging an xzone craw on the bottom was the deal today.

Got out a couple hours after work this morning. Fish were hitting a jerkbait about as hard as they possibly could. Caught a couple dozen bass and just about as many crappie. None of them were big, but healthy and scrappy, it was a good time. My biggest bass had recently found itself a large golden shiner also.

What an evening! I will preface this story by saying barges on the TN river usually move at a snail’s pace....... usually.......

 

So we have been paddling around in the evenings just for the heck of it, but Some of us keep fishing rods ready and cast into some calm spots for white bass. I caught a skipjack herring on the way up the river and cut it into chunks. My buddies have never caught a striped bass and cut bait has been getting a lot of them lately. As we drifted back downriver toward our vehicles, the cut bait rod goes off! I hand it to my buddy and the fight is on! We are in a canoe being towed out into the middle of the river by the fish hooked near the shoreline, yee haw fun times. I just so happen to look back upstream and there’s a massive barge coming right toward us and it’s coming along pretty quick. Uhhhh. I Paddle backwards for all I Had while my buddy is dragging a 16 lb striper on the surface with 12 lb line. Now there’s a pontoon out in front of the barge with no lights on pushing a big wave. Somewhere along the way I bear hugged the fish and flopped it into the boat before we got into shallow water. Made it to the rocks just in time for the barge waves to hit, clangity clang. Somehow we stayed upright and took some pictures! You can see the barge on the right of the top picture. The tug went back by empty as we were taking out in the dark 

 

 

Slobs like that in a small craft are a blast!  Nice one!

wow ?

 

Even with the daytime temp hitting 60 on Tuesday the night time temps were still frigid as usual. NYWayfarer described what it's been like here in a recent post. "Feels like the wind is coming off the top of an iceberg right onto the Northeast."  By  1:00 am Wednesday morning that's exactly what it felt like. My buddy's waders sprung a small leak, and 45 degree water sloshing around in his left boot had him looking for the exit. I was ready too. Even with 6 mil gloves on my hands were frozen. Regardless of the gin clear cold water, which is unusual for this time of year, the plants and algae are growing and picking off weeds was the theme of this outing. Tight fitting Nitrile gloves only stop the cold a little bit once they're wet.

 

We decided to throw some topwater on the way out just to find some relief from the veg. He tied on a Livingstion wake crank and I tied on a WP75. It didn't take long before we were both on the fish. He beat his skunk with a few scrappers. I beat mine with yet another crazy Plopper eating crappie and a nice 5 lb 6 oz chunk. The next 3 days we'll have night time temps in the low 50s for the 1st time in a long time. Just in time for the LMB bass season to close on May 1st! What a crazy spring we've had. I'm not gonna miss it one bit!

 

 

Enjoyed some sun (and wind) on Lake Menderchuck today ~

Got on a few too.

Everything was 'fun size'.

 

The 41-ish degree water temps required a virtual slow-motion jerkbait approach to get bites.

I'll be glad when things pick up - on all accounts.

Not complaining though.

A-Jay

 

 

smallies were hungry today. Dragging a xzone finesse craw on an ewg ned head 

3 hours ago, A-Jay said:

Enjoyed some sun (and wind) on Lake Menderchuck today ~

Got on a few too.

Everything was 'fun size'.

 

The 41-ish degree water temps required a virtual slow-motion jerkbait approach to get bites.

I'll be glad when things pick up - on all accounts.

Not complaining though.

A-Jay

 

 

 

Weirdly, your water temps on those big cold lakes up there right now are the same as my small, shallow, fertile, dark-substrate waters...usually we're warmer by about 10 degrees or more at this point.  I was back on one of my little swampy holes today, and it was 42 degrees.

Was at a lake again Thursday not known for smallmouth, apparently somebody forgot to tell them. Got my 3rd one of the year over 4, 4.16. Not sure I've ever done that. Most of them were on a 6th Sense Provoke 106 in the Pink Smash color, except the big one that ate a Mood Ring TRD Tickler on a 1/16oz Chartreuse Ned Rig head.

 

Went out with the family for a few hours today and got the boys some fish reeling in.

Not a bass. To windy to launch the boat. First brookie ever.  Finally putting my premier UL st.croix to use.   Went and did some ground pounding today on a stream 45 minutes away, surrounded by state land.  Should have kept it but, put it back.  All of 13 inches 

Beautiful day today , air temps got to 70! Finally a decent day and water temps around 51-52. Caught a bunch today on all kinds of lures , ended up with 47 total. Here are a couple of the brown beauties.  Back at it again first thing tomorrow morning ! Of course mocha wanted in on some of the action. 

33 minutes ago, Ksam1234 said:

Beautiful day today , air temps got to 70! Finally a decent day and water temps around 51-52. Caught a bunch today on all kinds of lures , ended up with 47 total. Here are a couple of the brown beauties.  Back at it again first thing tomorrow morning ! Of course mocha wanted in on some of the action. 

Detroit area ? 

Bite's getting better by the day . . 

 

A-Jay

2 hours ago, Mbirdsley said:

Detroit area ? 

No this is from Lake Erie by buffalo 

Just now, A-Jay said:

Bite's getting better by the day . . 

 

A-Jay

Love those brown bass! Going after more tomorrow ! 7 am sharp. 

3 minutes ago, Ksam1234 said:

No this is from Lake Erie by buffalo 

Love those brown bass! Going after more tomorrow ! 7 am sharp. 

Thanks . . .

Me Too on both accounts ~ 

Good Luck.

A-Jay

9 minutes ago, Ksam1234 said:

No this is from Lake Erie by buffalo 

Love those brown bass! Going after more tomorrow ! 7 am sharp. 

Isn’t Basically the whole south shore of Lake Erie good for bass this time of year.  Somebody did a bass show from like the Erie area.  

Been a while... things have been crazy at work the past couple months and one of my girls asked me if I'd like to take a break out on the lake. Obviously couldn't turn that down and as luck would have it that day (4/3) was the last day any of our semi-local lakes were open.