I'm up in the adirondacks, got here yesterday afternoon. Went out for a few hours last night. Caught all dinks. Few smallies, one largie, and some rock bass. About 10 in all, I was happy for the first time on the lake.

 

I went out again this morning at 5am solo, checked a few promising areas, but didn't see any sign of life. I came back in at 7am to eat with the girlfriend and then we went back out around 8am. Sun was coming out by then, clouds were gone. Water was 76*. We tried shady areas with no luck, then we tried a sun beaten rocky area. Bingo 5 smallies, and a largie, all around a lb, better than the night before.

Then we ran out of rocks and started hitting trees... Not a ton of luck, couple smallies. I'm on vacation, and had some tackle with me I normally never take. Namely a large swimbait. I'd never thrown it, had a new rod ready to go for it... so why not. The lure was bigger than any of the fish we had caught previously... but I wanted to play.

 

Second cast to a sun soaked downed tree in about 15 fow.:

 

 

I saw a big shadow, my lure disappeared...the fight was on. My new personal best! I'm still jittery, decided to head back to camp for a bit and let the jeski's do their thing.

 

Hopefully I have more good news to report later this week.

Congrats on the new PB. They are sweet. 

Grats on the PB! That's a nice sized fish for this area.

40 minutes ago, NYWayfarer said:

Grats on the PB! That's a nice sized fish for this area.

Yeah Man!! never expected it! they told me there was hardly any largies here... this is a spring fed rocky lake, theres next to zero vegetation, just downed trees. I think she's a rare beast. 

Beautiful north country bass!

Great Bass ~ 
Congrats on the new Personal Best.

A-Jay

 

Thanks for sharing!

Nice tank!

Nice catch! If it wasn’t so &;$$/@ cold I would move north!

Thanks everyone! On my last day fishing this lake today. Was a great trip, lots of quality fish. Largest smallmouth for the week was just a hair over 3lbs(pictured). Rest were in the 2 lb range mostly. Awesome fighters. Dusk and dawn off rock piles in 12-18 FOW were key.

 

Tight lines everyone!