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[The Bassman]

3 hours ago, Team9nine said:

Lol on both counts. I think we should have fished the spring Classic Sunday. Only took 13 for first and 11 for second. Have to believe we could have easily matched that ? Bite should get real good real quick out there with warm weather finally arriving toward end of week.

Heard we're going right back in this cold pattern after Sat. storms.  I don't ever remember the cold being this persistent and I'm almost 64.

[Fairtax4me]

Sandy was... her usual on Sunday. Found a few fish, then they all disappeared. Actually that's a little better than usual, shes just a skunky smelling desert most times. 

 

The fish we did find seemed willing to chase down and inhale an underspin. But then some wind picked up and patchy clouds rolled in over us, the bite shut off and they wouldn't bite even a ned rig or senko. 

I missed a solid 3lber first fish of the day. Shook loose at the boat. Hooked up on a 2lber after that, then landed the biggest of the day, 5.2 lbs, about 20.5". Got another 2lber shortly after. 

Floated around another hour or so before getting another 2lber on the same underspin, then got a dink on a medium diving crankbait running along a grass line. Had a couple more misses on the underspin, crappie maybe. Quick multiple bites then they would tug hard and spit it.

Not enough fish for 10 hours on the water, but it did snow saturday. 

 

Water temp was just under 60F, mud murky maybe 3ft vis. up in the creek area where we were fishing. 5-6ft vis and much more clean out main lake. Saw some patches of bait suspended at various depths in 25FOW, but not much in the way of bass. 

[Fairtax4me]

On 4/7/2018 at 3:23 PM, everythingthatswims said:

Yeah a spro really isn't a cheap bait but I bought one to try, I am not a fan at all of the action and effort required to move it through the water. If a toothy were to take it I would not be bothered!

 

However, my buddy was throwing a BD 95 jerkbait and I was impressed, it caught several bass and that size appeared to be in between a 110 jr and a regular 110. The jr is too small for my liking but that bait definitely caught my attention.

I have a love/hate relationship with spro. 

 

I've had two of their frogs break hooks trying to pull fish up out of grass (using 15lb floro at the time) But others Ive had for years and used the hell out of them. Had one stuck solid on a tree and broke 40lb braid and it wouldn't let go. 

Had a brand new spro crankbait (dont remember the model) lose the bill running into a tree. 

But also have a spro lipless that catches everything and anything. I burn it through grass, I throw it in brush piles, I hop it on bottom 20+ feet deep. I've bounced it off bridge pilings, had it stuck multiple times and bounced 3oz sinkers off it to get it loose, and it looks like hell but it wont give in. 

[Cheetahsneverprosper]

Couldn't wait any longer and just had to spend a few minutes after work fishing at a nearby retention pond.

Water temp 40

Air temp 38

Caught three in 30 minutes on a drop shot/KVD Dream Shot.  One 13 inches and two 15 inches, including this one.

They're still deep, about 12 ft down with no interest yet in moving shallower until spring decides to show its face.  It's looking like that won't be until about August.

Hands were frozen after half an hour and couldn't stay out in the cold and wind any longer.  But at least it's a start!

 

[everythingthatswims]

Got on the lake at 3pm today after school was out of the way. 42 degree water temps and it snowed all day, but I found a couple! 4.8" Keitech on a 1/2oz head for the bigger ones, and a jerkbait for the smaller ones.

 

I think I am dealing with a ton of fish, but their behavior is extremely confusing. Today I had 3 bites in 3 casts on the 4.8, casting up into 12/14' bringing it down into 20'. I lost the first one, then caught my biggest two fish on the following casts.

 

Then 2 bites in 2 casts on a Spro McStick on a main lake hump that comes up to 6', I landed both of them, they are the smaller smallmouths pictured.

 

 Then 2 bites back to back long lining the damiki abyss 90 on the same spot that the swimbait bite happened, I caught the 12" spot, and on my next cast had a fish run off with the bait on a slack line but I never connected. They fire up really hard for a couple minutes, then it's like they aren't even there!

 

[senile1]

 

When they do fire up, you appear to be very effective and efficient at catching what is available.

[N Florida Mike]

Got done eating supper and went out back to cast a little. On about the 5th cast or so I got this 6.3 , 23 inch tank on a spinnerbait. She was full of eggs.

Shout out to @Fishing_FF for giving me that bait when he was up here in feb.

[deep]

Went to dink city and caught three dinks in about as many hours. Not sure why I keep going back there. I think the one pictured was the least smallest.

 

Also met a fairly aggressive Canadian goose.

 

 

 

 

 

 

[everythingthatswims]

9 hours ago, deep said:

Went to dink city and caught three dinks in about as many hours. Not sure why I keep going back there. I think the one pictured was the least smallest.

 

Also met a fairly aggressive Canadian goose.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Because wherever it is probably has a few tanks and you know it

[Fairtax4me]

9 hours ago, deep said:

Went to dink city and caught three dinks in about as many hours. Not sure why I keep going back there. I think the one pictured was the least smallest.

 

Also met a fairly aggressive Canadian goose.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Because Legend has it there's a 38"er in there. It's what I heard!!

[Dirtyeggroll]

I was hung up and then suddenly my lure started coming back to me. (Thanks fish for saving my crankbait. I did end up losing 3 due to the landscape matting they put under the gravel/rocks that is starting to come up. I will probably have to stop fishing trebles in this lake. I have lost a total of 5 crankbaits this year due to the matting crap.)

 

[deep]

Much better than the last couple trips. Half a dozen dinks, couple 16", and one right at 18".

 

[Fairtax4me]

On 4/11/2018 at 2:57 PM, Dirtyeggroll said:

I was hung up and then suddenly my lure started coming back to me. (Thanks fish for saving my crankbait. I did end up losing 3 due to the landscape matting they put under the gravel/rocks that is starting to come up. I will probably have to stop fishing trebles in this lake. I have lost a total of 5 crankbaits this year due to the matting crap.)

 

Need to get a lure knocker! I dunno how many crankbaits were lost until my fishing buddy found this one: http://www.tacklewarehouse.com/Daiwa_Lure_Retriever/descpage-DLR.html

 

worth every penny

Ill throw a crankbait or lipless into anything now. Brush, trees, rocks, anything. And yes it has rescued a few from that mystery tarp cloth they use under rip-rap and around bridge pilings.

[Dirtyeggroll]

I spent an hour with a lure knocker trying to get one of them back out of the matting. I felt the lure knocker get hold of the hooks and thought I was gonna get it back but I’m pretty sure it just bent out the hooks that were on the lure knocker and not the matting. Then on the next one I managed to hit the rope of the lure knocker with my trolling motor and get it wrapped up and snap off the line with the bait on it.

[Bluebasser86]

Get one of these instead of a knocker,

http://img.tacklewarehouse.com/watermark/rs.php?path=FRLR-1.jpg

 

If I can reach it, I can get it back 99.9% of the time. I've got them back from every place imaginable with mine. 

[Dirtyeggroll]

4 hours ago, Bluebasser86 said:

Get one of these instead of a knocker,

 

If I can reach it, I can get it back 99.9% of the time. I've got them back from every place imaginable with mine. 

Something like this did cross my mind after about a half hour of trying to free one bait that was in 4 feet of water. Although, I am not really confident it would help much with the matting. But, I do have access to all of th equipment and supplies to make one for next to nothing. Other than having one more thing in my 10-ft boat, what can it hurt (still not going to be throwing $9 crankbaits in places I know that matting exists).

[Bluebasser86]

13 minutes ago, Dirtyeggroll said:

Something like this did cross my mind after about a half hour of trying to free one bait that was in 4 feet of water. Although, I am not really confident it would help much with the matting. But, I do have access to all of th equipment and supplies to make one for next to nothing. Other than having one more thing in my 10-ft boat, what can it hurt (still not going to be throwing $9 crankbaits in places I know that matting exists).

I've lifted entire logs and cedar trees off the bottom with mine, they're surprisingly durable. Mine telescopes down to only 5', so they don't take up much room. 

[Dirtyeggroll]

13 minutes ago, Bluebasser86 said:

 Mine telescopes down to only 5', so they don't take up much room. 

Sold

[Oregon Native]

On 4/10/2018 at 8:29 PM, N Florida Mike said:

Got done eating supper and went out back to cast a little. On about the 5th cast or so I got this 6.3 , 23 inch tank on a spinnerbait. She was full of eggs.

Shout out to @Fishing_FF for giving me that bait when he was up here in feb.

Hmmmmm....over by the lawn chair or under that manicured bush???

[Gundog]

3 hours ago, Oregon Native said:

Hmmmmm....over by the lawn chair or under that manicured bush???

Next to the pool noodle, behind the giant inflatable swan. 

[frosty]

35 minutes ago, Gundog said:

Next to the pool noodle, behind the giant inflatable swan. 

They spawn in the kiddie pool!

[Gundog]

10 minutes ago, frosty said:

They spawn in the kiddie pool!

Shallow end.

[Choporoz]

@Dirtyeggroll, what's the matting like?  Plastic, I'd assume...like landscape fabric?  At any rate, I'm sure someone thought it was a good idea....geezz....probably with visions of weed control....gotta wonder about planners/engineers who'd lace a lake with plastic...or any other type of matting

[Dirtyeggroll]

Its more like a cloth/fabric. A tough, hook loving, unforgiving and overspreading cloth-like material from hell.

[Choporoz]

Yep....probably landscape fabric to limit weeds; no telling how many bad, unintended consequences....I can imagine a few...its probably made with some plastic or other petroleum product in the weave; it will PREVENT WEEDS, which is not necessarily a good thing; I have to believe it interrupts natural cycle of decaying matter on the bottom, as well as crayfish habitats