Ontario bass opening day today, frogs for the win

[Way north bass guy]

Today was our opener ( finally). I hit a fairly popular, busy cottage lake here that isn’t known for huge fish, but has a ton of bass in it. 
Hit the water pretty early, and was off by noon when the temps got to about the hottest we’ve had so far this year. 

 

First fish of the season hammered a buzzbait, and I then proceeded to get on a phenomenal frog bite in the pads/eel grass. I stopped counting after 50 bass caught, and lost quite a few others as well. None were over 3lbs, but man was it ever fun to hammer on them like that and get my string stretched a bit!

Even the smallest ones at about 12” long were absolutely choking the frog, and I had a couple small bays where I had a fish on every cast. 
Now that I’ve had my fill of largemouth on a frog, I’ll have to get back out on Georgian Bay and see if I can find some more fat smallmouth. 

[Dwight Hottle]

Sounds like you had a really good opener. 

[TnRiver46]

Alright alright

[DitchPanda]

Kind of ridiculous. Can't even legally bass fish until the waters warm enough to get on a frog bite.

[ErieCan]

3 hours ago, DitchPanda said:

Kind of ridiculous. Can't even legally bass fish until the waters warm enough to get on a frog bite.

 

I agree. The trouble here (Canada) is there are still way too many people who measure their success by the amount of bass in their frying pan. I'd love it if they reduced the limits. Heck, even if they just closed the season for a few weeks for the spawn that'd be nice. 

 

@Way north bass guy btw, great report! Didn't mean to hijack your post. 

[DitchPanda]

22 hours ago, Way north bass guy said:

Today was our opener ( finally). I hit a fairly popular, busy cottage lake here that isn’t known for huge fish, but has a ton of bass in it. 
Hit the water pretty early, and was off by noon when the temps got to about the hottest we’ve had so far this year. 

 

First fish of the season hammered a buzzbait, and I then proceeded to get on a phenomenal frog bite in the pads/eel grass. I stopped counting after 50 bass caught, and lost quite a few others as well. None were over 3lbs, but man was it ever fun to hammer on them like that and get my string stretched a bit!

Even the smallest ones at about 12” long were absolutely choking the frog, and I had a couple small bays where I had a fish on every cast. 
Now that I’ve had my fill of largemouth on a frog, I’ll have to get back out on Georgian Bay and see if I can find some more fat smallmouth. 

Sorry if my first response came across wrong...hell of a day!

[treble hook]

Sounds like a great time.

[gim]

That is a really late bass opener. And here I thought that our bass opener in mid May was late.

[roadwarrior]

That's where the mule died, but I would move...