On 2/24/2020 at 1:00 PM, BassNJake said:

Some very nice fishing in this area.

I never caught anything larger than a 7.

I did catch a 5 fish limit for over 30 lbs though, I had them weighed at the bait shop next to LaDue reservoir

 

I have also caught several 6's from Mogadore, Portage Lakes, Nimisilla, LaDue, Lake Rockwell and Deer Creek

 

The Kent Bass team now runs the electric motor only league out of LaDue.

Rory Franks jr is on the KSU team and his dad used to be the tourney director at Ladue.

 

http://www.dobass.com/

Do you focus on the east finger when it comes to mogadore?

I threw cranks or flipped something at cover

I fished a DT 7 a bunch, I think they stopped making it but any crank will do as long as its bouncing off the bottom

I flipped a lot of creature baits and crawfish type trailers at that time

 

As it moved toward summer I tossed a carolina rig with a lizard on it

(a couple guys that used to always win at LaDue always tossed the carolina rig and they would slowly reel it in, so i mimicked them with success. The typical drag and wait was not as successful)

2 hours ago, BassNJake said:

I threw cranks or flipped something at cover

I fished a DT 7 a bunch, I think they stopped making it but any crank will do as long as its bouncing off the bottom

I flipped a lot of creature baits and crawfish type trailers at that time

 

As it moved toward summer I tossed a carolina rig with a lizard on it

(a couple guys that used to always win at LaDue always tossed the carolina rig and they would slowly reel it in, so i mimicked them with success. The typical drag and wait was not as successful)

Why don’t you fish ladue anymore?

On 2/24/2020 at 11:36 AM, kayaking_kev said:

Oh ok, maybe some States have different laws or something cuz I'm pretty sure I seen a youtube video from 1rod1reel where they came knocking on his door because he took some fish from public water and put in a private pond, but maybe I am just mistaken.

I wouldn't rely much on what you see in the tube. 

1 hour ago, Hower08 said:

I wouldn't rely much on what you see in the tube. 

Obviously 

I watched the video against my better judgement. You could tell the cops had no clue what they were talking about. If I had to guess, some one seen him taking big bluegills from a public body of water and knew where he was going to put them. They got butt hurt then called and made a complaint against him. 

 

 

Now back on topic 

14 hours ago, Johnpenguin said:

Why don’t you fish ladue anymore?

I moved to TN around 2008

I love that I dont have to put the boat away in the winter

Although I fish Chickamauga half a dozen times a year, LaDue is still my favorite lake

 

Up by the dam you can fish deep and target smallmouth

West of 44 fills in with weeds and lily pads and you can flip/punch to get to the largemouth buried deep in the cover

In the middle section you can fish the channel swings and the flats directly adjacent to them. There is a mix of weeds and wood. Fishing the causeway or the 422 bridge was almost always productive.

 

The lake had what seemed like millions of white perch in it

Bass chomped on those things and got big

every panfisherman would complain to no end about them also my dad because he always threw finesse type baits

3 hours ago, BassNJake said:

I moved to TN around 2008

I love that I dont have to put the boat away in the winter

Although I fish Chickamauga half a dozen times a year, LaDue is still my favorite lake

 

Up by the dam you can fish deep and target smallmouth

West of 44 fills in with weeds and lily pads and you can flip/punch to get to the largemouth buried deep in the cover

In the middle section you can fish the channel swings and the flats directly adjacent to them. There is a mix of weeds and wood. Fishing the causeway or the 422 bridge was almost always productive.

 

The lake had what seemed like millions of white perch in it

Bass chomped on those things and got big

every panfisherman would complain to no end about them also my dad because he always threw finesse type baits

I didn’t know ladue was so great. I’m really excited for spring now.

On February 23, 2020 at 6:02 PM, iabass8 said:

https://lakerecord.net/2019/05/17/ohio-man-catches-one-of-the-states-largest-bass-ever/

To the OP, did you read this?

Tom

29 minutes ago, WRB said:

To the OP, did you read this?

Tom

I just did. That’s a cool story. On a 6’ rod too...must have been a crazy fight

1 hour ago, Johnpenguin said:

I just did. That’s a cool story. On a 6’ rod too...must have been a crazy fight

My point is 2 LMB over 10 lbs in the last 40 years means the odds are very small another DD bas will be caught in the foreseeable future.

If your goal is a DD bass plan a trip to where your odds are good.

Tom

8 minutes ago, WRB said:

My point is 2 LMB over 10 lbs in the last 40 years means the odds are very small another DD bas will be caught in the foreseeable future.

If your goal is a DD bass plan a trip to where your odds are good.

Tom

I take guided trips every March on lake Okeechobee. I have four full days starting the 22nd

I read an article a year or so ago that listed the odds of catching a bass 10lbs or more by state.  Ohio was at the bottom... less than 1%.  I have lived in Ohio all my life and have never seen a bass (in a picture or real life) over 5-6 lbs.  The record is 13lbs but was caught in 1976 in a farm pond.

 

https://outdoorwritersofohio.org/current-ohio-record-fish/

 

https://www.lunkerlore.com/single-post/2018/04/13/Lifetime-Odds-of-a-10lb-Largemouth

4 hours ago, GabeErwin said:

I read an article a year or so ago that listed the odds of catching a bass 10lbs or more by state.  Ohio was at the bottom... less than 1%.  I have lived in Ohio all my life and have never seen a bass (in a picture or real life) over 5-6 lbs.  The record is 13lbs but was caught in 1976 in a farm pond.

 

https://outdoorwritersofohio.org/current-ohio-record-fish/

 

https://www.lunkerlore.com/single-post/2018/04/13/Lifetime-Odds-of-a-10lb-Largemouth

My biggest last year was 5.42(but I wasn’t targeting big bass). A lot of 7-8’s came out of portage lakes. 

5 hours ago, GabeErwin said:

I read an article a year or so ago that listed the odds of catching a bass 10lbs or more by state.  Ohio was at the bottom... less than 1%.  I have lived in Ohio all my life and have never seen a bass (in a picture or real life) over 5-6 lbs.  The record is 13lbs but was caught in 1976 in a farm pond.

 

https://outdoorwritersofohio.org/current-ohio-record-fish/

 

https://www.lunkerlore.com/single-post/2018/04/13/Lifetime-Odds-of-a-10lb-Largemouth

I catch multiple 5 pound fish every year in Ohio.  Portage gives up 7s every year. AEP has 9 #+ bass documented