Got out Friday at the power plant lake. It was too nice to be out there but the fishing was too good last week not to go back. Lots of fish this week, but the bigger bite dried up. Still caught a couple little bit bigger ones up to 4.5lbs. The same squarebill was getting hammered again.

 

Saturday I went out for a couple hours at the local lake to see if any of the hybrids would bite before the sun got up high. First cast, 1 and done.

 

After working the spot over for a hour with only 1 more bite from a big white bass, I tried for some largemouth. Water temps had dropped over 10 degrees since last week but I still caught a few. A custom painted wiggle wart KO was getting most of the attention.

 

My first good fish of Sunday had the 6th Sense Quake 70 sideways in the jaws.  She was just skin hooked, but the Daiwa Tatula XT 7' MHR loaded smoothly and I kayak flipped this one right in the boat.

 

The best fish of Sunday came off the YUM Killshot in Green Pumpkin.  6# fluorocarbon on a ML was one heck of a good time and made the day worthwhile.  The Lunkerhunt Dropshot hook is probably the cheapest good dropshot hook around and it pinned her perfectly in the roof of the mouth.

Caught a bunch of Bass and Perch hanging around a weed/grass bed. Nothing spectacular, but it was 29 degrees outside and that's cold for me personally

 

Got 1 on a frog just now. He just sipped it in. Didnt know he was on until I lifted the rod to pop it.

One of the nice ones from yesterday. It ate a Big Dawg Baits 7" Wagger swim worm. 

Water temp. dropped to 74 degrees.  Bass moved to the shore line.  Landed a 8.1 pound 24 1/2 inch  on a buzz bait first thing in the morning.  Lost a giant in the afternoon on a DT 10.  Lots of small ones in-between.  I still haven't found a good way to take a picture while fishing in my kayak. 

1 hour ago, king fisher said:

  Landed a 8.1 pound 24 1/2 inch  on a buzz bait first thing in the morning.  Lost a giant in the afternoon on a DT 10.  Lots of small ones in-between.

 

  I still haven't found a good way to take a picture while fishing in my kayak. 

Nice Bass ~ 

Congrats !

btw - since you have that pole in the yak,

a phone mount like the ones in the links below might at least 

enable you to take a pic/video holding your catch.

https://www.amazon.com/ChargerCity-Microphone-iPhone-Galaxy-Smartphones/dp/B01N97JSTH/ref=sr_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=phone+mount+for+pole&qid=1604795753&sr=8-4

 

https://www.amazon.com/Action-Mount-Mounting-Bracket-Operable/dp/B01D3EE85W/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&keywords=phone+mount+for+pole&qid=1604795753&sr=8-5

 

A-Jay

Fish were hungry on Friday. Fed a whole bunch of them a 6th Sense Quake and Provoke, along with a bladed jig and few other baits. Didn't find any big ones, but my wrist and ribs were sore by the end of the day.

When I got home, my new ride had FINALLY made it to the house. An Old Town Sportsman 120PDL. Took it to the local lake Saturday morning just wanting to test it out, but I got on a hot pattern with a Ned rig too. Ended up catching 34 up to 4.56lbs on it and smoked my buddies that were out there fishing also. I do feel like I did way too many squats after peddling around the lake for 5 hours though

Went river bassing in the kayak, my brother and buddies got skunked having to paddle in the current.  I managed to land 3 from a landing I've never hit, caught some pickerel and an 8" warmouth.

 

 

6th Sense Crush 50x fish.  Was bouncing it through the large roots of a fallen tree, this dude smoked it and immediately helped himself to some afterburner with the current behind him.

@Bluebasser86,

Congrats on your success.

What color is that 6th Sense Quake?  Is it the Thud version?

 

  

 

1 hour ago, BASS302 said:

@Bluebasser86,

Congrats on your success.

What color is that 6th Sense Quake?  Is it the Thud version?

 

  

 

I believe thats the color he designed called claytons something or other 

It has been over a month since I’ve had the boat in the water.  In mid-Michigan this time of year any fishing this late in the year is considered a bonus.  Little slow but, what I did catch made up for it.

 A 3.6 lbs smallie and a smaller smallie.  Started at green point on the Shiawassee side and ended up past the HESr ( first rail road bridge) in down town Saginaw.  The bigger one came up by the confluence.  Caught the smaller one and lost another nice fish in down town.  Both came on my jigs that I make with black/blue chigger craw as a trailer.  Bigger fish came in a 3/8 oz Arkie jig, smaller one on a black blue 3/4 oz brush jig.  Lost a really nice fish down town.

I havnt fished a lot this late in the fall but, river is full of Shad.  Up by the confluence I was snagging them while casting.  Even down town the graph is full of Shad top to bottomzDidn’t see or hear a lot of walleye being caught.  River had a lot of people on it fishing walleye. 

5 hours ago, BASS302 said:

@Bluebasser86,

Congrats on your success.

What color is that 6th Sense Quake?  Is it the Thud version?

 

  

 

It's a regular Quake 70 in the Clayton's Shiner color.

9 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

That's a cool pic. Iaconelli style urban angling.

Got off work early today and was on the water by 3 .  Very windy ( gusts over 30)  

I caught several on some kind of havoc craw. Most of these were under docks. Also got some on a 10 1/2 inch ribbon tail worm. Also got a few on a bama craw yum dinger. Lost another big fish reeling the yum dinger across a grass bed. He clobbered it and somehow came off. Ended up with 11 .

On 11/8/2020 at 6:08 PM, Mbirdsley said:

It has been over a month since I’ve had the boat in the water.  In mid-Michigan this time of year any fishing this late in the year is considered a bonus.  Little slow but, what I did catch made up for it.

 A 3.6 lbs smallie and a smaller smallie.  Started at green point on the Shiawassee side and ended up past the HESr ( first rail road bridge) in down town Saginaw.  The bigger one came up by the confluence.  Caught the smaller one and lost another nice fish in down town.  Both came on my jigs that I make with black/blue chigger craw as a trailer.  Bigger fish came in a 3/8 oz Arkie jig, smaller one on a black blue 3/4 oz brush jig.  Lost a really nice fish down town.

I havnt fished a lot this late in the fall but, river is full of Shad.  Up by the confluence I was snagging them while casting.  Even down town the graph is full of Shad top to bottomzDidn’t see or hear a lot of walleye being caught.  River had a lot of people on it fishing walleye. 

My gosh that first one is gorgeous!  I'd love to have that in a tank in my living room and just watch her swim...

15 minutes ago, BigAngus752 said:

My gosh that first one is gorgeous!  I'd love to have that in a tank in my living room and just watch her swim...

According to my buddy that tried that when we were kids, they splash water all over the floor haha

22 minutes ago, BigAngus752 said:

My gosh that first one is gorgeous!  I'd love to have that in a tank in my living room and just watch her swim...

Since the big flood in the spring draining 2 resivours  farther up on the Tittabawassee (Tittabawassee and Shiawassee form the Saginaw river about a mile from where I caught these) the smallies have dulled up a bit and turned more brown which, I guess to match the water.  In past years they are greener and more viberant. However, yes she is a pretty fish 

Work is slowing down so now I have time to fish ponds again in between stops .

Got several on a watermelon seed super fluke...

This could very well be my last bass of 2020 . Caught him minutes before a storm blew through and dropped the air temps by 20 degrees .   Caught from a roadside culvert on a Beetle Spin . I was on my way to do a job  , saw the storm coming  , decided to stop at a place I know and try it .

Got out to chase one of my favorite fall bites after work this morning, and I was super pumped to do it in my new kayak. I was afraid the bite was going to be over before it got here, thankfully that wasn't the case. First cast just like last time, no way I could get a selfie with this sucker. Glad I went and picked a net up yesterday.

After several more cast, thought I might have been struck by the first cast curse again, before I got slammed right under the boat again. I wish the first one would have been as fat as this one.

The not so fun thing about these guys, or this spot rather, is I have to cast as close as possible to a big snag or they won't bite. Of course, it's just a matter of time before I get stuck. I was prepared with a back up bait, so I thought, so when I snagged an broke off I would just tie on the new bait. Well, that works in theory but my execution was poor, because my spare bait was still in the truck when exactly that scenario happened a couple cast after I hit the second fish. On my way back to the truck, it was less than a hour since I'd launched and the sun was getting over the trees and the wipers likely would be done by the time I got back to my spot, so I decided to hop over a few miles to the lake I took my maiden voyage on and see if my bass bite was still going there.

It wasn't looking good at first, fished several docks with noting and not a swipe at a jerkbait, but finally connected on a dink on the Ned. Then I skipping under a dock that I'd caught one of my better fish last week and my line started swimming and I got set into a hard puller. Not quite as big as my big one last time, but a real solid fish for this lake.

Seemed to figure them out pretty good after that. They were still under the docks, just more like halfway out instead of under the walkways and front of the docks.

Picked this one off on a roostertail before work during the tropical storm .

 

This year hasn't been that good of a year fishing wise for me. Some friends of mine have said the same. Fishing has been tough in my area. Not just rivers but lakes also. All the close places are heavily pressured so I will take what I can get sometimes. We had a big rain here 2 weeks ago and slightly flooded the rivers. They needed it to wash away the green slime built up in the slack pools where I have had some luck. Well the water is back down and I had an hour and a half to fish this past Sunday morning and it was the best trip I have had this year. I had a furious 40 minutes where I caught 9 smallies from 10-18 inches. What a day.