Hey! New guy here from the Naperville area. I've been hitting Blackwell on week nights. Catching Pike there on a Cleo spoon from 12" to 24" so far, but haven't found the bass. I'm shore fishing only.

I also get to enjoy a private lake in Plainfield along 135th street for bass and crappie. I'll get some pics up soon from there.  

The Lakelands?  You are that close to the DuPage River and not fishing it?

Ned rig. Gasp, a snap!

 

 

 

i was checking out these kicker fish texas weedless wacky worms on sale at TW, and i figured hey, i have a bag of busted plastics -- let's sniff some super glue and see what we can come up with! wacky just got a whole lot wackier.

 

Yea, The Lakelands. Dad is also a member at Pure Rod and Gun Club. I guess with those two options I default to them before the river. I love catching smallies so I should get out there. 

 

 

Spent some time yesterday afternoon dragging a 10in worm.

Only had about 2-3 hours but caught a couple nice ones in the mix.

Nice chunky bass right there. Nicely done!

Wow nice fish

What strategies are you guys using during this long stretch of consistent, warm, sunny weather? Slower or fast? Deeper during the days? 

Get to the lake before dawn and fish top water.

 

Consistent weather is the best weather!

I fish deep and slow...but I do for most of the year aside for a couple weeks in the spring and a few more in the fall.  Have not really seen thermocline set up yet 100% but I would be it should be in full affect (effect?) any day now.

I got this 3# today I got a couple nice jumps out of it as well. The second jump was a good 2+ feet out of the water and put a big smile on my face. A passerby took notice and even said "wow that flew out of the water".

In the past month, I've caught all my big largemouth on slow presentations in water less than 8ft. I gave caught more fish using swimjigs

omg Mark, that rat looks literally unreal!

I know there are those that don't put much stock in the moon's affects on fish behavior.   

I, on the other hand, always included 'moon notes' in my fishing logs. Although I no longer keep a log, I still take note of both the moon phase and it's position. 

This year, the major feeding seems to be taking place when the moon is in the last third of the sky. The flip side is around 2.5hrs. prior to its appearance.  Either of those two times, I'm using reaction baits and covering water. As the bite dies down, I'm slowing down and fishing tighter to cover in any shade I can find. 

A nice solid bass on the 316 Baby wake last night. Crushed it running it through some emergent vegetation in about 2 FOW. 

Well done!

This was the best of 4 from the 4th. I got in some casts between celebration festivities. She isn't super large, but I wish I had a tape on me. Caught on a watermelon Senko. Literally everytime I put a new senko on, I caught a fish first or second cast and didn't catch another until I switched senkos.

have not made it out recently- severe weather seems to be coming in at the times/days I am able to fish.

Put in a day prefishing on the Des Plaines/Kankakee for an upcoming club tournament.  Bleck- what an ugly waterway!  I'm still thinking about all that clear, clean water I was fishing in northern Michigan last month.  Could only muster 2 lousy keepers and a half dozen shorts.  LOL- I am already in for the tournament but I can see it being the last time I ever fish out there.  I don't even care that it's close.  

 

On June 30, 2016 at 1:19 PM, Bballkking1 said:

What strategies are you guys using during this long stretch of consistent, warm, sunny weather? Slower or fast? Deeper during the days? 

I've recently discovered that fishing at night after a hot sunny day is my best summer strategy.You've  just gotta give up up a little sleep. Been doing the best from 11:00pm-1:00am. Black/blue spinner bait with big Colorado blade 

On 7/4/2016 at 9:27 AM, MarkH024 said:

A nice solid bass on the 316 Baby wake last night. Crushed it running it through some emergent vegetation in about 2 FOW. 

 

Good stuff!   Biospawn- huh?  My club has a relationship with them- not sure if it is a sponsorship or what.  Are you the owner?

Just now, Junk Fisherman said:

Good stuff!   Biospawn- huh?  My club has a relationship with them- not sure if it is a sponsorship or what.  Are you the owner?

No, not the owner. But I do business with them and a few other fishing related companies.

Went out for a bit to check the morning bite. I'm more of an afternoon/dusk/evening angler.  I got this guy who absolutely crushed my Melosh Gulping Gill.  Had a lot of follows after and lost one really good fish.  Can't seem to tag anything of real good size as of late.

Fished 4 hours this morning 1st skunk of the year today. I just wasn't in the zone. My casts were off, My main lake spots on the Chain that were producing 4 weeks ago were so choked with weeds, it was impossible to move the boat around. Fish were striking short on swimjigs but couldn't get so much as a bite on anything slower. Came home and washed the boat for the first time since April of last year. Sure looks pretty when it's clean