my brother and I went out this morning to try our luck at some cold water bass

we got to the lake at about 8:30 and both threw deep cranks

him with a deep diving bomber and me with a jointed shad rap

as were working our way down the shore line not even in the water a half hour and some shad bust the surface out towards the middle of the lake my brother throws out followed bye me

i dont even get 3 cranks on the handle when he starts yelling a got a good 1 get the net so i couldnt even get my line in was hoping for a double but no such luck

she went 19.5 and weighted 4.01

we went all the way down that side with out a neither bite and started coming back up the lake on the other side and he gets a dink probally 12 inches

we fish all the way up that bank and casting out towards the middle and nothing

when we get close to the gravel ramp he cathes a neither dink

i catch a dink right after him my first fish of the day and he follows that up with a neither dink so we stop at the ramp and i switch up i went with a deep diving xrap

we start back down the other shore line we get about 100 yards down and i hook this 1 out towards the middle of the lake

she went 18' and weighted 2.87

we then fish just about the whole way down that side and it was gettin late so we trolled across to the other side and i picked up my jig rod

first cast along shore and this brute hits

she went 20.5 and weighted 4.67

we fish further up the bank maybe 100 feet and this 1 takes the jig

she went 18.5' and weighted 3.44

we keep fishing up the bank i missed 2 or 3 more bites before we call it a day

i wonder how i would of did if i would of picked up the jig rod first instead of cranking with my brother

oh yeah air temp was around 35-39 degrees and water im sure wasnt much warmer

on the way there there was ice in shallow water and our eyelets on our rods were icing up

not bad for some mid november bassin

we plan on going next weekend

well be out there tell hard water ;D ;D

quality fish!

Nice trip and report  

You're a better man than I - my plan was to go bass fishing today, but it was a severe cold front with strong winds (not good in a canoe), so I wimped out and went trout fishing instead  :-[

Nice bass.

Great report. Love the details.

(Would love to know water temps though. With shad that water is probably not a pond. Probably still holding some heat. Water temp, at the bass, maybe upper 40s to low 50s??).

Anyway, look at how those fish have packed it on. Look at that first fish. It looks like a typical fall fish in my neck of the woods: Long and lean, (from summer) but with a belly full of food. She'll catch up to the others yet.

Great report.

Hey, did you catch any real dinks, like 7-10 inchers, on that day? Do you catch many little ones in the summer in this lake?

Excellent!

Nice fish, pics and story.

;D ;D ;D ;D

thats all we ever catch is dinks out of that lake

of the 20 or 30 times we fished there this last trip was the best for decent sized fish

last week of oct. my brother got a 5.5 out of there other then that its been dinks 1 after aneither with usally 1 3 pounder being caught each trip

the biggest problem with that lake is late spring though fall its plum full of weeds and grass

not many people fish it and nobody fishes it as hard as my brother and me

if ur a panfish guy u would love this lake my cousin went there with us 1 day and filled a 5 gallon bucket with 12-15 inch crappies and  10-12 inch bluegills and sunfish but its usally hit or miss u will catch a ton or none

oh yeah my brother swears he seen a 100+ pound spoonbill

id say it runs about 12 foot deep though most of the lake

awesome bass man!Congrats!

Matthew, did you catch any 7-10inchers the other day -on the day you caught the big ones?

i got 2 in that size and my brother got 3 just alittle bigger id say 10-13 inchers

i know the water is under 40 degrees we went sunday because that was the nicest day we had all week

lows in the teens at night and highs of barely 35

Thanks Matthew.