Had an incredible morning out on the lake/river runoff and my best bass spot this morning. For those of you up in the midwest who hang up the poles when the temperature starts dropping, you are missing out. The largemouths get real aggressive up here this time of year and if you're not catching them at 14+ inches regularly you're doing something wrong.

 

A couple more weeks and i'll start targeting the smallies out of the Grand River, weeee!

 

 

Here are a few pics from this morning, got out there right before dawn and caught my biggest fish of the day on my 2nd cast. They were eating up my spinner's today on a quick, aggressive retrieve.

 

All four were over 14 inches and keepable, but i'm a catch and release fisherman as the bass population is dwindling up here along with the Salmon population. First fish was 16 1/4"

Are bass really dwindling around here (GR area)? If so, that's the first I've heard of it. But in a lot of waters, over 14" can be tough to catch with regularity.

 

I had to laugh at your catchphrase -- I teach college in the GR area, so I have no time to fish once fall semester gets underway, and don't get to start again until May.  I know of a few gravel pit locations off the grand river, and they can be productive, for sure. Smallies seem to be best upriver of downtown GR, and largemouths best downriver, especially in the various Ottawa county bayous.