Post by djkimmel on Apr 24, 2004 23:01:30 GMT -5
Talk about an off day!
Went out with another fishing friend Brian and cameraguy. We started at 8 AM on the upper part of Hardy. We ran into andy at the ramp.
Now Brian won a club catch-and-release last weekend while catching about 100 bass between him and his partner. He ended up with 18-5 to win and his partner had over 16 pounds.
Today, things where a lot different. Water temp was about the same, but the bass weren't. We fished deep main-lake points and flats from the deep edges on in to the shallows. We used blade baits a lot. We also used crankbaits, spots, jerkbaits, tubes, and hair jigs.
Brian caught one nice smallie about mid-morning up on a deeper flat on a blad. We saw a few come up and splash on the top, but got no more bites. We fished our way towards the main dam.
We fished a sand point and I caught a dinky walleye and a 15 inch walleye. On the top of another deeper flat near the drop, I caught another slightly bigger walleye on a firetiger Bassday deep-diving jerkbait.
We had some bites and a couple lost fish. Along a steep sand bank, cameraguy got a keeper smallie on a blade. Brian lost one.
We went back up the lake to lose-your-expensive-Japanese-jerkbait-to-a-pike-on-the-first-cast flat and caught, surprise, a pike (cameraguy). There were numerous pike including rumors of two hogs caught there earlier and while I was there.
We stopped off the Brower Park (our launch) campground and I caught another small keeper walleye on the blade bait (all of us used chrome). That was about the whole day.
We talked to old tournament warrior Merle Davis and he had caught 5 nice smallies on tubes fished slowed. We tried that too with just the pike to show for it.
Not sure what the bass where doing. Nobody was tearing them up real good that we saw.
We only landed 2 bass, 1 pike and 5 walleye total (Brian got one)- 4 keepers. Quite a change from last weekend when many in Brian's club had 15 pounds or better.
It was chilly with the breeze, but still a nice day to be out.
Went out with another fishing friend Brian and cameraguy. We started at 8 AM on the upper part of Hardy. We ran into andy at the ramp.
Now Brian won a club catch-and-release last weekend while catching about 100 bass between him and his partner. He ended up with 18-5 to win and his partner had over 16 pounds.
Today, things where a lot different. Water temp was about the same, but the bass weren't. We fished deep main-lake points and flats from the deep edges on in to the shallows. We used blade baits a lot. We also used crankbaits, spots, jerkbaits, tubes, and hair jigs.
Brian caught one nice smallie about mid-morning up on a deeper flat on a blad. We saw a few come up and splash on the top, but got no more bites. We fished our way towards the main dam.
We fished a sand point and I caught a dinky walleye and a 15 inch walleye. On the top of another deeper flat near the drop, I caught another slightly bigger walleye on a firetiger Bassday deep-diving jerkbait.
We had some bites and a couple lost fish. Along a steep sand bank, cameraguy got a keeper smallie on a blade. Brian lost one.
We went back up the lake to lose-your-expensive-Japanese-jerkbait-to-a-pike-on-the-first-cast flat and caught, surprise, a pike (cameraguy). There were numerous pike including rumors of two hogs caught there earlier and while I was there.
We stopped off the Brower Park (our launch) campground and I caught another small keeper walleye on the blade bait (all of us used chrome). That was about the whole day.
We talked to old tournament warrior Merle Davis and he had caught 5 nice smallies on tubes fished slowed. We tried that too with just the pike to show for it.
Not sure what the bass where doing. Nobody was tearing them up real good that we saw.
We only landed 2 bass, 1 pike and 5 walleye total (Brian got one)- 4 keepers. Quite a change from last weekend when many in Brian's club had 15 pounds or better.
It was chilly with the breeze, but still a nice day to be out.
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