50 minutes ago, Mbirdsley said:

Saginaw Bay Smallies were feisty today.

Launched out of the mouth of the Saginaw River this morning and started looking for some bass. Headed out to an island near the mouth of the river.

Started the day by ripping a lil general ned in gobey through the weed lines on a 5-6 ft flat. Picked up one 2.5 lbs large mouth. Fished that and various weed lines for another hour and decided to go try and find some smallies.

Went around the island and went to the same spot where I pounded the smallies in the fall. I caught 5-6 smallies out of one spot. They were holding extremely tight to cover. I would literally have to bounce my maxx scent Gobie ned head right of the metal dock structure watch the Ned slide down the gridded and boom fish on. Most of these smallies came in 4-6ft of water. The big 3.5lber came off the same structure but a little deeper in 6-8ft. All of the smallies faught very well today.

I knew the M/V Sam Laude was in bound with stone for the upper Saginaw River. She ended up by me on her way up river around 11:30am. The photos that I took do not do justice to how close I was. She was still at full power doing 18 kts when she passed me. While on the trolling motor her suction literally turned the boat 360 like a toy top. The resulted silt she kicked up eventually blew into the area I was fishing and killed the action.

I caught a bunch of 1 lbs bass later in the kawkalin river.

I’m not going to lie those big boats used to freak me out when my FIL would have us out on the Illinois River and his boat was a 36’ cabin cruiser.

Bob and I fished for two hours this evening and we caught 29. Bob caught the biggest at 18 inches. He also caught a 17.75-incher, as did I. We fish well together, supporting each other, but with a light seasoning of teasing. Bob loves the beauty of my pond as much as I do and he knows more birds than me (and trees!) and I enjoy learning more names of nature. Bob really enjoys t-rigging, but he also caught bass on a Whopper Plopper and spinnerbait. Here are some of our bass, starting with the first one caught:

12 hours ago, GreenPig said:

Nice. Some days they only want the legs.😁

I cut the legs off.