I’m getting a minor procedure on my elbow Friday so I needed to get out one more time in case it doesn’t go well.  Sunday night at my largemouth lake saw water around 69 which was 5 degrees higher than I expected.  So tonight I went to the biggest, coldest lake around…. And found 63 degrees.  Since it’s a smallie heavy lake I figured they would be on the beds and I wasn’t disappointed.  I had planned to fish moving baits since sight fishing the beds isn’t my preference, but the wind and clouds in the forecast didn’t materialize and it was bluebird flat.  So when in Rome, make lemonade.  Or something like that.  

 

I’ve never properly fished this lake.  I have been on it 4 times and two of those had water 40-46 degrees.  I had a plan of where I wanted to start but halfway there I said “this looks pretty good” and shut the motor down.  Two casts in, 3-05, about 19”.

 

 

I fished my way around and ended up with 12-15.  A pair of 3+# 19” fish and a couple more 17+”.  The smallest was still over 13”.  All in a pretty good night.  I caught my first fish on the Cara BFS rod and man is that rod sweet pitching tiny bugs to targets.  It was also the first real night of just go fishing and don’t worry about the boat which is nice. And to top it off, I nearly was able to get the boat into the garage with the truck which is no mean feat considering you have to bend the trailer back more than 90 degrees and the garage door is only 8’ wide.  I got the wheels up over the lip with the truck and that’s the hardest part to do by hand.  All in a solid night.

 

 

 

 

3# 19” SMB??? Yes please!!!! 
 

Good Job!

 

Best of luck with your surgery 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Mike

3 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

3# 19” SMB??? Yes please!!!! 
 

every day of the week and twice on sundays. 

I also saw a couple largemouth that were significantly bigger than that and would have topped 4# for sure, probably pushed 5.  Also, hence my other thread this week. 
 

 

2 hours ago, Mike L said:

Good Job!

 

Best of luck with your surgery 

 

 

Mike

thanks!  It’s just to clean up unhealed tendonitis but it’s still getting poked with some needles. 

Heckuva night. 19" smallies are rare in Maine. I've never caught one here and I watch Hank Parker's smallie videos, as he fishes Maine a lot, and I've never seen him land one in Maine. I'm guessing he has, but I just haven't seen it.