So I’ve been camping on Lake Bomoseen, VT all week, but the devil controls the weather up here, we got two cold days where it rained from noon until 9am the next morning and one afternoon of heavy thunderstorms. To make it worse my tent started leaking a ton of water and our sleeping gear all got soaked.

We made it out on the kayaks three days. On Tuesday, I got two decent smallies and two rock bass. The first smallie was in around 16-20ft of water off the shore on a jig and the other three fish were in about a foot of water on a crankbait. We decided to continue to the north side of the lake and check out Rabbit Island and the surrounding areas - some docks and milfoil up there but we didn’t get anything.

On Wednesday, we decided to flip the milfoil and lily pads in the more northern part of the lake but didn’t get anything

Today, we made our same trek to the point but then went to Neshobe Island. I got a small largemouth on a drop shot and a small rockbass on the crankbait. I got nothing near the island but we tried the shoreline south of the state park launch.

Here‘s where we went wrong: it would have obviously been smarter to fish offshore on Tuesday instead of head up north, but it was our first day there and we expected 5 days on the water, so we wanted to explore a bit of a lake that we only ever fished from shore so I can’t really complain. But Wednesday, the surface water temperature was 69-70, just like on Tuesday. We should have did our trek today on Wednesday and today where the temp was 74-75, tried the far northern or southern weedy portions of the lake for largemouth, I bet we’d have fared much better on both days. Oh well.

I also broke my Tatula Elite ML/F rod that I was using for a tube. I hit it with a crankbait on the back cast and immediately stopped casting because I knew what I did but it was too late to save the last two guides.

Despite all the bad stuff, tent leaking, not sleeping as a result, breaking a rod and not catching as many fish as we got from shore here in 2019, overall I’m in a far better mood now than I was the past few months.

More trips to come… I live for this

I think we all have lots of trips where in hindsight we know what we could have done better. You got out there and caught some fish and it sounds like you had a good time. That's the most important part.

Sorry to hear about your rod :(

I love my Tatuala elite rods, I am going to go down in the garage and give them a hug right now

12 hours ago, pdxfisher said:

I think we all have lots of trips where in hindsight we know what we could have done better. You got out there and caught some fish and it sounds like you had a good time. That's the most important part.

Perfect reply. You're the best.

15 hours ago, pdxfisher said:

I think we all have lots of trips where in hindsight we know what we could have done better. You got out there and caught some fish and it sounds like you had a good time. That's the most important part.

Sorry to hear about your rod :(

I love my Tatuala elite rods, I am going to go down in the garage and give them a hug right now

Good news is I do have another spinning rod which I often leave at home but it will throw the same things fine, maybe even better to be honest. The Tatula Elite ML/F runs on the lighter side - I got it to throw 1/16 ned rigs further. There is a shore spot I fish a lot and my Acid X ML/XF couldn’t quite cast to where the bass usually hang out.

And I’m pretty sure it’s still under warranty too