5 hours ago, thediscochef said:

I shouldn't bother but ?‍♂️?‍♂️?‍♂️ can't help myself sometimes 

I'm sometimes glad I bothered. A rebound day is nice, especially with an audience. Got on a boiling school of Sandies and hybrids, pulled in about 10 of those on a red eye shad. Then moved to the z craw Texas rig for a couple of very skinny LM, a 4lb and a 5lb. The 4 was missing an eye.

6 hours ago, MN Fisher said:

I think this one is busy too.

I may, or may not, have had some shorts like that in the 80's. ?

3 hours ago, T-Billy said:

I may, or may not, have had some shorts like that in the 80's. ?

What a wild time that was. I wasn't around, but like. The stories.

23 minutes ago, thediscochef said:

What a wild time that was. I wasn't around, but like. The stories.

I don't remember. ?

1 hour ago, T-Billy said:

I don't remember. ?

 

So funny!

It’s been crazy hot here lately, and with it being the long weekend I didn’t want to travel far and deal with the busy ramps, so I just hit my backyard lake this morning for a few hours before it got too hot. Caught about 40 smallies, half on a popper and the other half on a ned rig. They were all in little wolf packs of about a dozen or so, I’d catch one and the rest would follow up to the boat. Quickly unhook it and drop back down and immediately hook another one. Nothing over 3lbs today, but it was fun. Also watched this guy slide up out of deep water and inhale my ned at the boat like a dainty stream trout. Was a fun fight on 6lb line. 

12 minutes ago, Way north bass guy said:

It’s been crazy hot here lately, and with it being the long weekend I didn’t want to travel far and deal with the busy ramps, so I just hit my backyard lake this morning for a few hours before it got too hot. Caught about 40 smallies, half on a popper and the other half on a ned rig. They were all in little wolf packs of about a dozen or so, I’d catch one and the rest would follow up to the boat. Quickly unhook it and drop back down and immediately hook another one. Nothing over 3lbs today, but it was fun. Also watched this guy slide up out of deep water and inhale my ned at the boat like a dainty stream trout. Was a fun fight on 6lb line. 

 

Please keep posting. I love your tales of fishing Ontario. 

Caught this long green crappie while fishing docks with a 1 inch Gulp Minnow and a feather jig on the ultralight.

It's funny.  Lately when I've thought I wasn't going to catch many I've done OK.  When I think I'm going to slay them....things turn out differently.   Yesterday I caught 10 (a good day for me).  Most were topwater bites, which have been rare this year.  I went earlier today, just knowing I was going to catch a BUNCH on top.   I had the boat launched by 5AM.  I caught my first (of 5) at 6:57am on a T-rig in 20 feet of water.   I ended up catching 5(all pictured) before the lake got crowded with wake boats and jet skis.   I'm going to do something out of character.  I've either fished, or worked every day this year.  I'm off Tuesday.  I'm going to rest.   I'll be back at the lake Saturday.   

On a side note, I'm going to start a long hair thread for the hair police.   

 

Ok, here’s another one then?. 
After lunch it was supposed to cloud up so I thought I’d take the canoe out on the river that runs through our property. It did not get cloudy, and was hot as blazes, but I did manage to get another 30 or so on a frog and texas rigged Berkley Maxscent jerk Shad. About a 50/50 mix of green and brown bass, no giants, but in the gin clear water it was a hoot watching them blast out from under pads and undercut banks to hammer my baits. I probably saw 90% of the hits clear as day!

Wow, @Way north bass guy, your stories and pics get better and better. I wish I'd been in your canoe with you!

First post and first fishing report on the site. Got out today and hit my favorite lake from 11am-2pm. I’ve been doing well with the chatterbait for the last week here and today was no different. First fish was a 5.69, the other 3-4 fish were dinks. Lost another around 3lbs. Tried grinding out the same area with plastics when the chatterbait bite slowed up but it was a no go. Hit a few more spots on the way out for nada. As the sun creeped out so did the boaters, kayakers and the bobber crew.

P.S. don’t tell the bass I was using an original chatterbait because apparently they don’t work, only the jackhammers do ?

Bait monkey is going to be upset about this

 

Welcome to the site and nice report!

Passing storms here today - rain, wind and heavy clouds interrupted by calm and a hot sun. The airport reported nearly 3/4 of an inch of rain this afternoon, but we escaped with somewhat less than that. That’s now 2” of rain in the past 3 days, and today was the first day the ponds showed a noticeable increase in volume, though still low.

 

I started out with wacky on a spot that had cleared quite a bit with all this extra rainfall, and was able to land 8 before a round of storms drove me off. A couple hours later, I was back at another location and throwing a swimbait, initially under some cloud cover, but that eventually went away. Still, I was able to add another 16 bass to the day’s tally bringing my total to 24. 
 

 

@Team9nine:

 

Yes, you chose this as your screen name: Team9nine

 

But I wonder if Mr.Consistency was taken. 

Well, could only get a few casts in before the lightning struck about 2 miles and right in my line of sight...going to go back out...but caught a bass.....a coughpeakcockcough bass, its still a bass......well, sorta.....close enough....STREAK DOES GO ON, come on thunder storm, go AWAY!

 

Pardon the pic, when the light struck, it scared both me and the fish. I wanted to get the hell out of dodge so I didn't want to snap another and be that guy that dies snapping a pic with a 2lbs peacock. Btw, on a Booyah One knocker. 

 

This here dink is special because I was on the clock haha. I work weekends at a kayak rental place and sometimes we take folks upriver and run a shuttle for them. I usually have to wait 2-3 hours and the downstream takeout, my boss says you better take a fishing pole or book to read. I don’t like reading books 

New personal best Smallmouth Bass today! I got em on a Megabass Dark Sleeper, and it is nice to be back on the site after a hiatus.

Took the family out a few days ago. Windiest I've ever been out on our home lake, which made the conditions pretty brutal. Can't remember the 60" TM shaft ever struggling to stay in the water.

 

Found a semi-sheltered cove and of course my oldest caught the biggest of the evening. ?

 

My only semi-pic worthy bass of the trip.

Welcome back!!

Ah... Now I understand. ? 

 

Well, storm lasted until 1230, but got out right after to play with the carolina rig again. Got 2, one being 2lbs 13oz. I am having some fun with this rig and zoom lizard. Streak continues....these are for Monday 7/3.

 

The full moon was hanging directly over the lake when I got there, and it seemed to stubbornly stay put over the next few hours. Fortunately, the soft filter of wildfire smoke mixed with occasional passing clouds would blunt its shine just enough to where they were willing to bite during certain moments. Even then, nothing was interested in breaking the water's glassy flat surface while the electric-white brightness was periodically muted, and definitely not when it wasn't. Wakes and topwater baits were ignored, so I ended up either dragging or swimming plastics slow and low to get my bites. Missed a few but got some too.

I got out yesterday between the storms that came through. I caught 3 all on a stick bait. The pond I fished is definitely tougher than normal, although I have not been there in a minute. I only took pics of two of them because one was a lot smaller than the other 2 dinks. I also caught 2 on Friday at a lake, one on a stick bait and one on a frog. I also blew my reel up on a cast when my worm flew off my straight shank hook mid cast lol. I was like why is my worm in the air over there and then I felt the spool still spinning and knew that it was going to be ugly when I looked down. Yep had to walk back to the car and throw a different reel on. I also caught a rock bass on the frog also, no pictures from Friday because I was waist deep in water.

8 hours ago, TheBasslayer said:

New personal best Smallmouth Bass today! I got em on a Megabass Dark Sleeper, and it is nice to be back on the site after a hiatus.

 

That's a beautiful bass and like Glenn said, it's great to have you back. How were you fishing your Megabass Dark Sleeper?

 

@Dominat0r, your top bass has a sweet shape.

 

@PhishLI, as you know, I once focused on muskies. Muskies are so dang hard to catch that you must leverage every possible advantage, which means noting all minutiae. A good musky fisher sees more, hears more, and remembers more. You're like that on your pounded lakes.  

 

I observed and deduced like PhishLI once and was rewarded beyond my wildest dreams. We'd been fishing a wilderness lake for muskies for five days. I'd caught nine in those five days, but two of the four in our party hadn't caught a single one because the wind was a cool northwester. One day, we were fixing lunch on our island when the wind swung 180 degrees. It was suddenly coming warm out of the southeast.

 

Well, at the far end of the lake was a strait that ran from the southeast to the northwest. I guessed that the change in temperature and pressure would trigger the muskies and that they'd cluster and feed at that strait, with water pushing through it. 

 

"Let's go fishing!" I yelled to my partner.

 

"Lunch?" he said.

 

"Later!" I said.

 

We paddled as fast as we could to that strait. I caught five muskies in an hour, which is, given the length of time it takes to play, land, and release a musky, close to Constant Musky (TM). I lost a sixth just as the wind died. The fishing conditions were really tough as we each had about one cast before we were blown out of position. 

 

My point, PhishLI, is that you're always trying and often succeeding to crack the code at your Long Island ponds by paying attention to light, wind, temperature, and even smoke and deducing from the clues.