boostr Posted June 10, 2014 Posted June 10, 2014 Since I started Bass fishing in August of last year when I caught my first bass I was hooked. This year has been killing me, my confidence was shot until this past weekend, which was my best by to date. It also gave me confidence in plastics, fishing structure, and What to use in certain conditions. Thanks to Bass Resource.com. The fam planed a trip to Minerva, New York which is about 20 miles North of Lake George. We stayed at a cabin only "camp ground" called Morning Side Cabins on Lake Minerva. It was nice and quite because school is still in and no summer vacation crowd. You can have your choice of canoe, kayak or 12ft Jon. I opted for the Jon so I can stand without worryng about falling in. Visibilaty was about 4 to maybe 5 ft. This is How it went. Caught these guys the first day on the water. The day was tough going, because a front moved in the night before, and cooled the temperatures down. Plus to make it worse it was pretty windy. Good thing we had an anchor. I went out by myself at 6 am, stayed out till 2 pm, and got skunked. That all changed when me, and the wife went back out around 4pm. The wind died down a little and the sun was more frequent. Caught the pike when the sun was out on a White spinner bait with chrome blades. Caught the bass when it got cloudy about 15 minutes later on a sexy shad color spinner bait with a gold blade. First good bass of the year, and I was pumped. Took the wife back to shore had some dinner and just relaxed for the next day. Saturday got up around 8 am and went out on the lake at 10 am. Was nice and warm and the wind died down drasticaly. Took the Jon out by myself beat the shore l with spinners and some swim baits, and nothing. To note this lake is littered with lay downs every where. Took out the whacky rig put on a green pumpkin black flake Senko some JJs, a wrist roll cast into some timbers and the line takes off to the left, set the hook and a nice one like similar to the above. Like an idiot I forgot my camera (Phone), and couldn't record it. Rowed back to the dock, and retrieved said device. Then decided to do some top water in some grass and pads... No dice. Came back in around 2p fished with my 3 yr old son some, and had dinner. Went back out around 5p, and thats when the magic happened. Started hitting things like this towards the middle of the lake with a weighted, glass beaded Trigged Watermelon red flake Space Monkey. Just roll cast it let it sink lift it a little wait for the pressure, and BOOM! And somebody didn't want to be left out... After this I decided to go here... This cove was littered with lay downs along the shore. Rowed up it, fished all the lay downs with the Space Monkey... Nothing. When I got to the end of said cove I decided to switch to the whacky rig with a Pumpkin Black Flake Strike King Shimee Stick, and just drift back down, fishing the same lay downs.... Nothing to brag about, Drifted to the next lay down, and.... My inner Dave Mercer took over, and "Look at that dude right there" My PB. Man was I pumped. My cheap spring lip grip scale said 2lbs, but I think it might of been more. I couldn't measure it so I put it next to my foot for comparison, but it still is an awkward angle. I couldn't get it right even with my boot. I'm a 9 1/2 and add a 1/2 inch for the tip of the boot. It was way bigger than the first one at the begining of the post. So I'm happy now. To note I also missed a few fish between that small bass and my PB with the whacky rig. Definetly gained alot of experince fishing this past weekend, and hopefully it carries over with more success. Thanks to everybodies input and help. 2 Quote
Global Moderator Bluebasser86 Posted June 10, 2014 Global Moderator Posted June 10, 2014 Congrats on the great outing! 1 Quote
boostr Posted June 10, 2014 Author Posted June 10, 2014 Caught several more during the outing, but these were the more significant ones of the weekend, where a light went off, and I was like I think I'm starting to get this.. Quote
boostr Posted June 10, 2014 Author Posted June 10, 2014 But I wasn't the only one who had a good weekend. 4 Quote
jbw252 Posted June 10, 2014 Posted June 10, 2014 Congrats on a great fishing trip. Your son looks thrilled. Great pics. 1 Quote
Super User WIGuide Posted June 10, 2014 Super User Posted June 10, 2014 Congrats on your success and that never ending quest to keep getting better! 1 Quote
boostr Posted June 10, 2014 Author Posted June 10, 2014 Thanks WIGuide. I tell you what being on a boat doesn't hurt either, even if it was a 12' Jon with oars. Gets me to thinking, an 16' moded v Jon, a small 10 hp motor and a decent trolling motor... sounds like a good starting point. Quote
speed craw Posted June 10, 2014 Posted June 10, 2014 Glad you have a great time especially with the little one , those memories will last a lifetime. 1 Quote
Super User buzzed bait Posted June 10, 2014 Super User Posted June 10, 2014 that little dude has a solid chunker in his hands, looks he might have outfished his old man!! 1 Quote
boostr Posted June 10, 2014 Author Posted June 10, 2014 That solid chunker almost pulled him into the water. Luckily my wife was near him, and gave him a hand. Plus it was only about a foot and a half deep, so he would have survived. Quote
boostr Posted June 11, 2014 Author Posted June 11, 2014 I regret not taking a better picture of the PB because it was a nice fish. I kind of took the picture angled down, and made the fish look smaller. Oh well I'm just glad I had a chance to catch it, and tell you guys about it. Quote
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