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Post by Jmcfarland on Sept 8, 2005 17:47:33 GMT -5
I have a tournament coming up on 9/24 and 25 here. Just wondered if anyone had any comments on the fall bite. Thanks for any help.
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Post by blakstr1 on Sept 19, 2005 6:03:34 GMT -5
i talked to "savage" about giving you some spots, he has fished Black in the fall quite a bit, you should hear from him soon...
good luck hog huntin'
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Post by djkimmel on Sept 19, 2005 20:51:37 GMT -5
I've still never been there, but the other lakes up there are AWESOME in the fall!!! If all goes as planned, I'll be up on Mullett from 10/1 until 10/8 or 9 playing tug of war with some toads. If my friend stays healthy so we get the whole week, we are planning a side trip to Black.
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Post by blakstr1 on Sept 19, 2005 21:52:31 GMT -5
rattle traps are awesome on black in the fall, it is a great lake the lack of fishing pressure makes it that much better.
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Post by Jmcfarland on Sept 20, 2005 17:12:51 GMT -5
Thanks a lot blkstr1. It may sound like im asking for spots but really i was just looking for some general info. I wont get a chance to prefish and would like to eliminate as many things as possible before taking off. I have a couple traps and I will be sure to give them a try. Ill try and get a report out soon after the tournament. It will probably be my last tourney for this year, but ill still be fishing.
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Post by blakstr1 on Sept 30, 2005 9:54:12 GMT -5
how did the Black Lake tournament go for you?
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Post by Jmcfarland on Oct 1, 2005 23:47:42 GMT -5
Not good. At least not good for me. It was a 2 day event and I hadn't prefished at all but hoped that i could get on some fish during the 9 hour first day. I drew boat #1 and right after that my luck pretty much ran out for the weekend. I decided to try it right in the river (the one that black lake marina is on) since i didnt have any spots on the lake that i was in a hurry to get to, plus the wind was blowing pretty hard already. Well that didnt pan out to well. Missed a fish 10 mins. in on a spook. Thought i may be on to some more aggressive fish after that strike so i kicked up the trolling motor and cast at the edges of the weeds along the river for the first 2 hours without one more strike. Decided that wasn't the place to be so i braved the waves and headed out onto the lake. I knew there was a weed flat with a nice drop about 1/3 of the way down the lake on the western shore (right out in front of the river that flows into black lake). Seemed like it would be a good spot to try with the wind blowing and it was a little protected which was a bonus for me. Tryed the rattle trap like you said but on about my 8th cast i happend to catch the trolling motor on the back cast and busted it in to pieces. Tied on another and tryed it for a while with no luck. Stayed in the same area and switched to a thunderstick. Had a big smallie follow it right to the boat on one of the first few cast, but couldnt get him to hit. Well to make a long story short this happend to me all day and I couldnt find anything i could do to make them hit. I could actually see fish a few times and would throw a tube at them and they would just look at it and follow it back to the boat without taking it. TALK ABOUT FRUSTRATING. Well anyway i zeroed on the first day. A lot of other guys were having the same problems with fish following too. On top of that when i got back in someone had found my cell phone floating in the launch area. Seems it fell out of my pocket in the morning.
Day 2 Well in my early morning rush i some how forgot my tackle bag at home. I dont know how i managed that one. I just couldnt believe it. That morning was flat calm and over cast a exact change from the wind and sun of day #1. I thought that i could catch some of the fish I had seen the day before so out to the flat i went. When i got there minnows were poppin all over. I threw out a Zara spook(1 of 5 lures i had that day). Charlie Plourd was only about 100 yards or so away from me and nailed 3 solid keepers in the first 15mins. on topwater. He had gone fishless at this same place on day #1 also, but had a good 2nd day with 16lbs. I kept chuckin and missed a giant fish. Threw right back in the same spot and missed again. Well another long story short i only managed 1 fish all weekend. I caught it on a spinnerbait. About an hour later i lost that spinner to a big ole pike. With no tacklebox thats a big mistake. Pretty much somes up how my weekend went.
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