jhoffman Posted May 19, 2014 Posted May 19, 2014 Left central PA Friday at 10am and drove to the lake. We stay in a cabin at Camp Prendergast which is just off a public launch on the lake. We get there friday and head out and it once again looks like the ocean. We fished mid lake and caught one or two but the water was just borderline insane. It was also a front moving in so that didnt help the cause at all. Saturday morning up and launched bright and early. We wanted to fish the southern end but couldnt get there due to the weather the day before, we headed there first thing with glass like water. Upon arrival, it looked like boat city, to my surprise they all appeared to be fishing for crappies. I hooked into a nice smallmouth on a jerkbait and then we started to fish the opposite side of a hump when WHAMO... musky number one. Im the guy with the winter hat, if you cant tell it was COLD. No sooner did I release my fish and my buddy creamed one too! After that I started to recall what happened last year and we decided to head to the north end. Im not gonna bore you with an hour of details. From Saturday mid day until we left this morning we caught over 50 fish combined. Some nice smallies and largemouths with the majority of fish being LM. We had to fish super slow to do anything worth while. My buddy likely has most of my pics but we didnt take a ton, too busy catching fish. I didnt see anyone lay into them like we did. At times we had doubles, other times we caught ten back to back. Once you got that school activated it was on like donkey kong. We just flat out laid it too them. Had we been in a tournament, we couldve probably won it. Heres one good bass I had on my phone he caught. Every year we get slammed by a cold front, I think next year we might go even later. Im talking brutal cold fronts, it was 31 degrees last night, friday night it was 37. Friday the water was 63 today a whopping 54! I tell ya what we caught em on, but then Id have to kill ya. Quote
S_Miketa6 Posted May 19, 2014 Posted May 19, 2014 I was actually there today with my dad and we also caught a few small muskies on jerk baits. But these smallies we caught bed fishing... His weighed 4.83lbs and mine weighed in at 6.52lbs, a new PB for me. Couldn't hook into to many largemouth but we stayed mostly on the south end and couldn't find the right water temp. Overall though pretty fun day!! Quote
jhoffman Posted May 19, 2014 Author Posted May 19, 2014 SWEET! I caught a smallie today that looked like a football. We only caught one fish on a visible bed, a lot of fish today were out deeper. The largemouths we caught them mostly in 4ft or less. Quote
S_Miketa6 Posted May 19, 2014 Posted May 19, 2014 I know those smallies were very solid!! Hope to get out there in a couple weeks to hopefully finds some more on beds if the weather stays good for a while. Quote
shimmy Posted May 19, 2014 Posted May 19, 2014 I was actually there today with my dad and we also caught a few small muskies on jerk baits. But these smallies we caught bed fishing...8aYBl4mn.jpeg 2014-05-19 00.28.37.png His weighed 4.83lbs and mine weighed in at 6.52lbs, a new PB for me. Couldn't hook into to many largemouth but we stayed mostly on the south end and couldn't find the right water temp. Overall though pretty fun day!! Looks fun, always the best to fish with family. What scale did you all weigh those puppies on? Nice smallies nevertheless. Quote
Super User Bankbeater Posted May 19, 2014 Super User Posted May 19, 2014 Good going! Sounds like you had a blast! Quote
S_Miketa6 Posted May 19, 2014 Posted May 19, 2014 Looks fun, always the best to fish with family. What scale did you all weigh those puppies on? Nice smallies nevertheless. The scale I used was the Accu Cull scale. Tested it multiple times and it was actually an oz heavier. Believe me I had to keep weighing that fish just to be sure. The picture doesn't do it justice!! Quote
Bassaddiction Posted May 20, 2014 Posted May 20, 2014 So north end is better?? Any lures or colors? I'm going there tomorrow for the first time!!! Quote
S_Miketa6 Posted May 20, 2014 Posted May 20, 2014 So north end is better?? Any lures or colors? I'm going there tomorrow for the first time!!! Hard to say North end is better, but depending on how you like fishing the lake flows north to south and the north end is clearer. South is a little more stained and when I was there the South had a little more vegetation. There are a lot of rocky areas on the lake, North end may have a little more with the mix of rock/sand/grass. As of lures I was bed fishing with a white Rage Craw, for any other baits I try to keep it to natural colors up North and some flashier colors on the South end. Didn't find many on docks, I don't think that there is much to hold them there this early unless there is a bed under it. So as of right now Id stay more on the North end, don't be surprised if you hook into a few muskies!! Hope that helps and good luck!! Quote
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