Today was a solo mission. I launched the boat while the stars were still out, and made the 20 mile run out to the open water of the bay. 
On my third cast I caught a 3lber on a spook, thought it was going to be a good topwater bite due to the flat calm water, but alas, that was the only hit on top. Might have been the east wind that had something to do with it. 
I headed further out, hitting a few spots I got them on a few weeks ago, and continuing further out into the abyss to checkout some more shoals. 
Today turned out to be all drop shot, all the time. They were loaded up on pretty much all the shoals I hit, most were topping off at 15-25’ deep surrounded by deep ( over 100’) water. 
Berkley Maxscent Flatworm and Flatnose Minnow did all the work, and in a lot of places it was a fish on every drop down, pretty much let it hit bottom, close the bail, tighten up and set the hook, and repeat ?. 
I also managed to find several nice pike as well, in a couple places I could see them following the boat in the gin clear water, almost looked like small sharks circling. 
I lost count after 50 bass, lots of small ones but got quite a few around 4lbs mixed in as well. And the best part, I didn’t see another boat the entire time I was out there. 

Awesome day, hard to believe nobody else was there. I can fish the dead of winter and there will be fishermen everywhere with nothing biting at all.  And someone will go by on a jet ski 

I can’t tell you how many times we had a good bite going on Erie & then the wind picked up out of the east. It shut the bite off like someone had hit a light switch. My buddy used to say let’s go in & drink some beer. I never believed the east wind had such a strong effect until l really started to pay attention. He was right. But he did love his beer & still does. 

 

Congratulations on a great day!

 

I have a soft spot in my heart for Georgian Bay (endless anecdotes)

The seclusion you mention is a contributing factor among others.

I'm curious to your jump-off point....we went out of Moon River & Parry Sound.

 

Roger

13 hours ago, RoLo said:

 

Congratulations on a great day!

 

I have a soft spot in my heart for Georgian Bay (endless anecdotes)

The seclusion you mention is a contributing factor among others.

I'm curious to your jump-off point....we went out of Moon River & Parry Sound.

 

Roger

I live about 5 min from the ramps in Parry Sound, so that’s pretty much always where I go from if I’m on the bay. Most of my time out there is between the moon and just north of Killbear Park. You could spend every day for the rest of your life out there, and never fish the same spot twice. 

On 8/15/2020 at 7:58 PM, Dwight Hottle said:

I can’t tell you how many times we had a good bite going on Erie & then the wind picked up out of the east. It shut the bite off like someone had hit a light switch. My buddy used to say let’s go in & drink some beer. I never believed the east wind had such a strong effect until l really started to pay attention. He was right. But he did love his beer & still does. 

Luckily, the wind almost never comes from the East where I live. But I will say everyone has always told me fishing is a futile effort when it does happen