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[Ktho]

Vacationed to Lake George, NY with my GF and her parents. Bought a $30 combo up there and some ned rig gear and was able to sneak in a little fishing. Caught both smallies and largies, only LMB by the lakehouse docks, had to paddle 1mi across the lake to find some smallmouth. I especially liked that, I've only ever got into them a tiny bit at Castaic and Havasu so was really looking forward to getting a few NE bronzebacks. I'd love to go back and fish it for real the fish seemed quite eager to entertain me, certainly a lot more than the Texas and CA bass im used to. 

 

 

[TnRiver46]

6 hours ago, GreenPig said:

Fished Sinclair last night from 10p - 1a last and caught 5. 

Good ‘uns 

[Team9nine]

Interesting day - Got a quick trip in before a massive frontal line moved into the area. The trip started sunny and hot, with temps rising to 86 degrees and light breeze…then the clouds rolled in, the wind picked up, and things started looking bad. Then the wall cloud moved in, the downdraft winds kicked in with top gusts to 70 mph, and I got my butt out of there, just getting to the truck seconds before the wall of rain could be seen just down the street approaching fast. That first trip resulted in 13 bass on swimbaits.

 

The storm blew through; the rain lasted for 5 hours, and temps dropped to 68 degrees. After it cleared, I threw on a jacket, grabbed the swimbait rod again and hit another spot - lol. Picked up 7 this time bringing my total to 20 on the day. 
 

Temps rise back to the low 90s tomorrow with a 40% chance of storms, then a bunch of rain in the forecast starting tomorrow night through Monday, so trips might be limited for a while.

 

 

 

[Mbirdsley]

back after a self imposed almost month hiatus.  needed a break from fishing.  focused on doing some shooting and reloading instead.  

 

hit up the saginaw bay today.  went out of the Finn road launch which, is 2 miles east of the mouth of the saginaw river.  smokey haze was covering the bay.  visibility was only 1.5-2.0 miles.  

 

started out fishing spoils island which, is right next to the shipping channel.  hit a bass and a nice 7.5 lbs channel cat next to a piling in 12 foot of water.  both came on a t-rigged spine craw.  caught my first ned rig fish in a long time.

 

i just happened to look up and i saw a lower laker coming down the channel headed for bay city.  the wind was going away from me. i was out of the channel but, he kinda popped out of nowhere 2 miles ahead off my port bow.  it was the articulated tug Olive M. Moor pushing the  barge menominee.  

 

 

storms were forecasted and it was rather windy so i decided to head back.  on the way back i stopped at a underwater rock wall in 3.5 ft.  i found it last year with a buddy.  glad i stopped i pulled 20-25 large mouths off of and around it with a green pumkin party general rigged wacky style.  not the biggest bass but, i was literally setting the hook on each cast.  i’ve never seen fish so charged up.  at the end the last worm split in half. so i was like what the heck let’s try it. rigged up each half and caught 2 extra fish on each half.  

 

 

lost my costas in the drink.  hopefully the sacrifice will please the fish gods for the rest of the year. 

 

 

[IcatchDinks]

48 minutes ago, Mbirdsley said:

back after a self imposed almost month hiatus.  needed a break from fishing.  focused on doing some shooting and reloading instead.  

 

hit up the saginaw bay today.  went out of the Finn road launch which, is 2 miles east of the mouth of the saginaw river.  smokey haze was covering the bay.  visibility was only 1.5-2.0 miles.  

 

started out fishing spoils island which, is right next to the shipping channel.  hit a bass and a nice 7.5 lbs channel cat next to a piling in 12 foot of water.  both came on a t-rigged spine craw.  caught my first ned rig fish in a long time.

 

i just happened to look up and i saw a lower laker coming down the channel headed for bay city.  the wind was going away from me. i was out of the channel but, he kinda popped out of nowhere 2 miles ahead off my port bow.  it was the articulated tug Olive M. Moor pushing the  barge menominee.  

 

 

storms were forecasted and it was rather windy so i decided to head back.  on the way back i stopped at a underwater rock wall in 3.5 ft.  i found it last year with a buddy.  glad i stopped i pulled 20-25 large mouths off of and around it with a green pumkin party general rigged wacky style.  not the biggest bass but, i was literally setting the hook on each cast.  i’ve never seen fish so charged up.  at the end the last worm split in half. so i was like what the heck let’s try it. rigged up each half and caught 2 extra fish on each half.  

 

 

lost my costas in the drink.  hopefully the sacrifice will please the fish gods for the rest of the year. 

 

 

Hello from a fellow Michigander! Saw those pictures of the ship and immediately started humming The Wreck of The Edmund Fitzgerald. Lol. 

 

Beautiful fish. 

[thediscochef]

5 hours ago, thediscochef said:

Thanks! It was a grind to start the year but I learned a lot. I've prided myself on having a generally high hookup ratio, but my losses usually come in bunches. Personal record is 8 lost in one day, so many swear words. Last night wasn't so bad, it just makes me want to go back out there. I will be doing this until there is no more fish or no more tackle

Tonight got worse, lost a monster of some kind (no guarantee it was a bass), hardest pull I've felt this year. I'd wager it was 7+. I'd forgot to re tighten my drag after snapping off and I didn't get a good hookset. Tightened the drag down and fought it for a minute before it turned and the hook came out. Missed the next three bites and then an hour of no bites says its time for bed. This skunk hurts. Back at it again tomorrow...

[Swamp Girl]

@thediscochef: When you land as many monsters as you do, you have to lose a few.

 

@Mbirdsley: Cool photos! I like your 3.5' frenzy story.

 

@Team9nine:And I like your storm story.

 

Well, off to fish this morning. And tomorrow morning, I'm taking a kid fishing! I'm going to put him in the bow and I'm going to be the trolling motor in the stern. My mission is to get him hooked on fishing.

[Swamp Girl]

Went I launched around 4:30 this morning, it was in the upper fifties and foggy. I was actually cold this morning. I figured since it's July tomorrow, I wouldn't need fleece atop my thick, wicking top. Wrong.

 

I caught my first bass froggin' and par for me, I lost about six others on the frog. The one I caught has the shoulders and tail of a bigger fish. I'd love to catch her again in a couple years. 

 

Fishing was slow and I ended up with seven LMB and five pickerel. One pickerel was so strong that I thought I had a five-pound bass. It was about a five-pound pickerel. If they were all that strong, I'd love to catch them.

 

I've got a streak going of catching at least one 19" or larger bass. I'm not counting, but it's been weeks now. I thought the streak was going to end this morning, but minutes before I was leaving, I caught one.

 

I caught some butterballs too and took some pics of the bog.

 

The PHOTOS: Frog fish first, then two butterballs, then my 19.25-incher, and finally two pond pics:

 

 

[roadwarrior]

 

 

                                                        

[PhishLI]

It's been interesting since I got impaled by a treble hook last Tuesday. Seems I contacted poison ivy in our flower beds the day before after noticing big mushrooms growing in the mulch. My only thought was that my dog might find them irresistible, so I reached in and yanked them out, but didn't notice poison ivy mixed in with the shrubbery. Coincidentally, the first place the rash showed up as simply redness was on my right wrist connected to the hand that took the treble, so I thought infection had quickly settled in and began to travel up. It made sense at the time because the hook was wet with bass juice with weed garnish and I had no idea poison ivy was in play, plus my finger was still very swollen. Booked to the clinic where they recommended a tetanus shot and a dose of antibiotic. I hadn't had the shot since '85, so I wasn't about to argue even though I've been perf'd by metal objects hundreds of times since then without a problem. But I'm finding out lately that almost 60 isn't as resilient as 20, so I acquiesced to the shot without being held down by orderlies.

 

Hit a local spot on the dark side of yesterday morning and quickly caught a few dinklets and a nice crappie on the reliable Livingston Bullnose crank. Nabbed one clean looking post spawn male right after the lights came on and got a few nature shots on the way out. It was nice to finally be off the couch after seven quite uncomfortable days with a franken-finger on one hand and itching I could not scratch. It spread to several areas beyond my arms, but thank god the dangler and co went unaffected even though it made it to my waist. Yay!

Later in the afternoon I hit a nice eastern lake with my son-in-law. Pickerel were on the rampage and kept slicing our line but we got some too. Don't throw Hot Snakes TRDs around them if you want to keep them. The last one was huge, and it flopped out of the net taking my last one with him. I got a few small bass on the Zman Pro Crawz and we headed out just as the wildfire smoke got heavy. Just when we got the boat in the truck as darkness fell the topwater killshots started. I bombed one last blind cast from shore and got a heavy hit on the fall, but we really had to go. Wished we had another hour to play. Next time.

[Swamp Girl]

23 minutes ago, PhishLI said:

But I'm finding out lately that almost 60 isn't as resilient as 20

 

Sigh, you're right again. 

 

As always, I enjoyed reading your trip report. I contracted such a severe case of poison ivy that the ER doc said, "People come here all the time wanting treatment for poison ivy, but I tell them to buy Calamine Lotion. You, however, have the worst case of poison ivy I have ever seen." He gave me two shots and a prescription because I'd burned it two days prior and it was inside me. 

[TnRiver46]

Nice ones @PhishLI. Ironically I was walking one of our dogs this morning and it sniffed a mushroom and just kept walking, maybe they don’t like the smell but all dogs are different 

[galyonj]

8 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

...because I'd burned it two days prior and it was inside me. 

 

I was mowing earlier this year and yanked a bunch of vines off our fence and just mulched them up with my mower.

 

So I kind of turned poison ivy into an aerosol, and that worked out about like you'd expect.

 

I don't make smart decisions.

[PhishLI]

9 minutes ago, TnRiver46 said:

I was walking one of our dogs this morning and it sniffed a mushroom and just kept walking, maybe they don’t like the smell but all dogs are different 

I don't know that she would either, but those were some handsome mushrooms I tell ya, and I don't even like them myself. Bleh. I figured they had to go. Don't need my sweet girl tripping out, or worse. Look at this sweet face, but with massive bite-force.

[TnRiver46]

Now there’s a good girl 

[PhishLI]

14 minutes ago, ol'crickety said:

I'd burned it two days prior and it was inside me.

Happened to my dad when he was a kid. His neighbor burned a pile of it and he was down wind. Head to toe disaster.

[TnRiver46]

I have a symbiotic relationship with poison ivy. I always keep a few spots of it on my skin to please it, that way it doesn’t envelop me completely 

[Dominat0r]

Well, spooled up a new spinning reel to test out some lighter fishing. 2nd biggest in the pond so far, 3lbs 4oz. Biggest is 3lbs 12oz. Caught on a Carolina rig. 

 

Fish for today, Friday 6/30. STREAK IS ALIVE!!! Close to a month of a fish everyday!

 

Hitting Headwaters tomorrow for some fun, hopefully there will be more pics. 

 

[IcatchDinks]

4 hours ago, PhishLI said:

 

 

Wow. I thought that this was a BASS thread. With pictures of BASS.

 

 

 

 

jk. That's such a sweet looking dog.  no way can we allow that sweet thing to eat the shrooms. 

[Swamp Girl]

I mentioned that I'm taking a boy fishing tomorrow and I can't believe how excited I am. He's super excited too. I was a teacher for 40 years, so I know how to teach kids, but I've never taught fishing, so I've been thinking about ways to build skills while having fun. We've going to start at four in the morning with trolling. I'll put in the bow and have him troll off one side while I troll off the other. I'll paddle so he can focus on the fishing. When I hook a bass, I'll pass him my rod. This will give him double the opportunities to play fish.

 

Then we'll move to casting. Nothing is easier than a Whopper Plopper, so I'll start him on that and then move him to a Mepps, wacky worm, and paddletail.

 

Then we'll move to froggin', both for fun and because it's so hard...at least for me. I'll post pics of the lad with his bass tomorrow. I'm hoping for 30, which is doable because we're going to a numbers pond.

[T-Billy]

6 hours ago, PhishLI said:

Happened to my dad when he was a kid. His neighbor burned a pile of it and he was down wind. Head to toe disaster.

Been there. Done that. Sucks... REAL BAD!!! I was at a kegger and they burned some ivy covered wood. I wasn't the only one in head to toe misery in the aftermath of that poor decision. 

 Here's a bass pic to keep the BR fashion/hair/pic cop off my back. ?

[Swamp Girl]

^Beasty bass!^

[TnRiver46]

3 hours ago, ol'crickety said:

I mentioned that I'm taking a boy fishing tomorrow and I can't believe how excited I am. He's super excited too. I was a teacher for 40 years, so I know how to teach kids, but I've never taught fishing, so I've been thinking about ways to build skills while having fun. We've going to start at four in the morning with trolling. I'll put in the bow and have him troll off one side while I troll off the other. I'll paddle so he can focus on the fishing. When I hook a bass, I'll pass him my rod. This will give him double the opportunities to play fish.

 

Then we'll move to casting. Nothing is easier than a Whopper Plopper, so I'll start him on that and then move him to a Mepps, wacky worm, and paddletail.

 

Then we'll move to froggin', both for fun and because it's so hard...at least for me. I'll post pics of the lad with his bass tomorrow. I'm hoping for 30, which is doable because we're going to a numbers pond.

How old is the kid? Gotta be careful turning them loose with a lure with as big of hooks as a WP

 

i took my friends 5 year old fishing today and trebles are definitely a no no at this point 

[gim]

3 hours ago, T-Billy said:

Here's a bass pic to keep the BR fashion/hair/pic cop off my back.

I’m watching and I approve. This is in fact the BASS pics thread.

-fashion police of both hair and apparel

[Team9nine]

Showed up at a micro lake this afternoon only to get sent back to the truck 10 minutes later - lol. A very thin line of storms passing through. The water was much more stained than I expected, so I ran home and grabbed a murky water outfit while the rain passed. Back at the lake, I decided to stick with the finesse gear I originally brought to begin with based on catching 2 small bass in that first 10 minutes. Was probably the right call as I proceeded to catch 20 more fish on 2 full passes, all on wacky worms. Best on the day was this 4-1/2 pound class fish, but the others were pretty spunky 14”-16” for the most part. Lots of rain in the forecast over the next few days, actually storming again as I write this, but hoping for an opening or two to get out again.