Post by djkimmel on Jul 3, 2005 23:56:06 GMT -5
I enjoyed Lake Ovid a lot better today than I did Erie yesterday. Not saying the bass were biting like the last time out, but Derek and I landed over 2 dozen with about 60% being keepers - no big ones though.
We started out hoping for a good PopR/buzzbait bite, but saw very little surface activity and notice that water was chocolatey and the weeds had suffered a huge die-back, causing tons of slime to grow everywhere. We would spend a LOT of time picking slime off our lures.
It didn't take me much topwater/cranking to an empty bench before I grabbed up the green-pumpkin finesse worm. First cast, I hooked a chunky almost keeper. Never felt it bite.
A few casts later, a small keeper. Again, didn't feel it bite. It was just there.
That would become the norm for the day. After I lost another keeper at the boat on a small creature bait, Derek broke out a jig-and-pig.
A couple bass later (by me) and Derek was asking for one of my g-p finesse worms. The rest of the day, we stuck mostly to small worms with the occasional Carolina rig.
We hit weed points, humps and weedlines catching scattered bass in many places. We did notice a problem (Derek more than me) with muskies. We had a couple big muskies try to steel plastics as we reeled them in. I briefly had a small one on a crankbait (I kept testing the waters off and on) and Derek got bit off twice. We had one other small one chase our lures at the boat.
We could have had a pretty good day on the muskies... but we were after bass. So we would move along when a musky was located. We came across one weed patch that we thought had dinks on it and real aggressive panfish. We could not hook them even though our line would take off, or twitch, or the lure would get shaken.
Derek caught 2 or 3 dinks and I got one, so we knew some were bass, but we couldn't hardly hook them. Finally, Derek did something right and landed a nice one over 2 pounds. We still had problems, but by adjusting our hookset and timing, we ended catching several solid keepers there.
It was that kind of a day. We started shortly after 8 AM and fished until almost 3:30 PM. It got slower later in they day, but we still got some nice ones. Here's Derek holding one of our best ones from the day:
We never got any big ones today, but lots of solid keepers mostly from 6 to 9 feet deep where weeds petered out into sparse clumps. It was slow, but steady by sticking to the finesse approach. We know another angler threw a crankbait most of the day and only landed 3. Despite seeing a couple bass kill stuff up shallow, even out stick worms went fishless so I think we did the best thing for us for the day.
We started out hoping for a good PopR/buzzbait bite, but saw very little surface activity and notice that water was chocolatey and the weeds had suffered a huge die-back, causing tons of slime to grow everywhere. We would spend a LOT of time picking slime off our lures.
It didn't take me much topwater/cranking to an empty bench before I grabbed up the green-pumpkin finesse worm. First cast, I hooked a chunky almost keeper. Never felt it bite.
A few casts later, a small keeper. Again, didn't feel it bite. It was just there.
That would become the norm for the day. After I lost another keeper at the boat on a small creature bait, Derek broke out a jig-and-pig.
A couple bass later (by me) and Derek was asking for one of my g-p finesse worms. The rest of the day, we stuck mostly to small worms with the occasional Carolina rig.
We hit weed points, humps and weedlines catching scattered bass in many places. We did notice a problem (Derek more than me) with muskies. We had a couple big muskies try to steel plastics as we reeled them in. I briefly had a small one on a crankbait (I kept testing the waters off and on) and Derek got bit off twice. We had one other small one chase our lures at the boat.
We could have had a pretty good day on the muskies... but we were after bass. So we would move along when a musky was located. We came across one weed patch that we thought had dinks on it and real aggressive panfish. We could not hook them even though our line would take off, or twitch, or the lure would get shaken.
Derek caught 2 or 3 dinks and I got one, so we knew some were bass, but we couldn't hardly hook them. Finally, Derek did something right and landed a nice one over 2 pounds. We still had problems, but by adjusting our hookset and timing, we ended catching several solid keepers there.
It was that kind of a day. We started shortly after 8 AM and fished until almost 3:30 PM. It got slower later in they day, but we still got some nice ones. Here's Derek holding one of our best ones from the day:
We never got any big ones today, but lots of solid keepers mostly from 6 to 9 feet deep where weeds petered out into sparse clumps. It was slow, but steady by sticking to the finesse approach. We know another angler threw a crankbait most of the day and only landed 3. Despite seeing a couple bass kill stuff up shallow, even out stick worms went fishless so I think we did the best thing for us for the day.