No, that's not a typo, I renamed it "Spud" - us bay for all the spuds my friend Roger and I caught today.....

I was trying to figure out a way to prefish Kueka Lake today for our team TX tomorrow, but everything I heard was it sucks, fish are really deep....

So, I called Roger up to see what he was up to, and we chatted a while, and finally decided to hit Sodus.  Sodus was hot and cold early in the year, but I was usually able to come up with fish.  I think Roger mentioned he hadn't fished it yet this year.

We got to the water shortly after daybreak.  I started with a spinnerbait, and I think Roger threw a buzzbait.  We had a couple small fish in the boat about ten casts in.  I was getting a ton of short strikes, and finally settled on bait with downsized blades - a sure fire summer bait for me.

We found small fish mostly shallow, so we decided to hit deeper weeds with ribbon worms, jigs, and creatures.  I caught nothing on jigs, and a few on worms and creatures.  Roger humped away with that buzzbait,picking up fish here and there.

Later, we hit another cove, off a main lake point, and found fish VERY shallow.  Aimless, long casts over and past the weeds and reeds into 6" of water with a t-rig worm produced.  Pretty dramatic way to fish.  We moved along this way,mixing up what worked with the cover present, for a few more fish,but nothing big.

We decided to make a run up to the rocky flat by the outlet,and rip some tubes through there.  Its a hit or miss game, and with only one largemouth to show, we ran around, looking for decent weeds to fish that were out of the wind, that was blowing pretty hard out of the south.

We saw Fred (Once Bitten) running around by then, and waved.  Not sure he recognized us or not, but he waved back at us.  Wonder how he did.

The day went on like this, and we added skipping docks to our repertoire for more numbers type fishing.  We had a cool moment, boating the largest fish of the day which was a true team effort.  A miss, and a heads up to toss in that spot, and BAM!  Best fish of the day.  Teamwork fishing is cool like that we both get credit for the catch.  It counts +1 for each of us.

So, no pics (nothing truly noteworthy, unless a tree growing out of a buoy is noteworthy, LOL) but a great day, and some great fishing.  Water temps were up (good news!) into the mid to high 70°s and there were some areas with nice, new coontail growth.  A couple of stable, warm days, and I reallythink things will pick up.  Wind was out of the S to SSE ranging from 10 to 20 mph.  Only moderate boat traffic, but still quite a few wakes by mid morning.  Wellover 30 fish in the boat, and Angry Whoppers for dinner.

Thanks for a great trip, Roger.

Spuds? Little chubby things?

I think I might know why they were really shallow. Been happening here too.

Nice report!

And mmmm! I had an Angry Whopper yesterday! That bad boy will fill you up!

Spuds? Little chubby things?

I think I might know why they were really shallow. Been happening here too.

Yep, little chubby guys.  The fish still look thin, in that post spawn way, but their bellies are full to the brim.  There has been an alewife EXPLOSION up here.  I've seen what seems to be mile long bait balls, well trains really, moving through the points and flats.  Its incredible.  I'd like to hear your theory, Paul.

BTW, did well at Keuka yesterday.  Made the run from Penn Yan to Branchport for a solid bag of largemouth for 3rd place.

We've had an unusually cool wet year and water levels are up. Seems it's been cool all across the north. You??

This resulted in higher than usual water this spring and a simply enormous hatch year for bass. There are hordes of bass fry around -and most of them are in shorelines cover very tight to shore. There's a chain of predators behind them.

Just a thought.

I concur, based on what I've seen in the smaller ponds.  Bigger bodies, not sure.  The situation in Lake O. is a little different, but really the same.  Cool water, and abundance of food, and the fish are stacked DEEEP.  The weekend before last, I found fish suspended at about 20-30' in 75 FOW.  I caught one smallie.  Not the way I'd like to fish.  We need a heat wave.

Yesterday, found multitudes of LMB in 2-5 FOW.