Went up to Lake George with the family the week before 4th of July after some inspiration from Mikey D'Avila's Lunkerville episode about the fishin chef. I had a great time in my Bell canoe, fishing for smallmouth and occasional largemouth. Water temp was 70-72 and air temp was 70 on up to 85. I caught my record size for largemouth, 23 inches and she had to be 8 to 10 lbs, a real hawg, so big she couldn't even jump she bulldogged and ran my line down I fought her for a couple of minutes, in 15 feet of water on the drop shot. Some fish including my biggest smallmouth (around 3 lbs) were caught shallow on DD20 crankbait but most were in average 18 feet of water. I'll try to post a pic, that's a size 13 foot next to that fish. All fish except for one unfortunate gill hooked fish were released.

Nice bass. 6  or 7 lbs. would be more like it.

Nice bass. 6 or 7 lbs. would be more like it.

X-2 8-)

Nice bass dude!

Hoss material.

I love Lake George. And a 5-6 pound fish like that is a trophy for that place. It is loaded with those 1-2 pound rats.

Some folks would call that a bass, but where I come from we call that a pig! Nice!

that bass has an underbite!

awesome bass there culprit!... isn't lake george the most beautiful lake anywhere? i just love the place.

Yeah man,

I took as much time as I could to paddle out there and found myself putting the rod down and just taking in the scenery.

There must be smallies all over that lake I have to get back soon.

I love  Lunkerville and  you get to fish with some real characters and knowledgable guys.......

keep "listening to the fish" heh heh  ;D