Where Would You Go?

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Btw......im doing cedar in the morning and will have room for a second if you want on.

[Bluebasser86]

Btw......im doing cedar in the morning and will have room for a second if you want on.

I would but I'm leaving for Milford as soon as I get off work in the morning

I'd like to get out there or to Killcreek with you whenever you go out next though.

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how was Milford? Cedar was slow until about 10:00 the the bite picked up.

[Bluebasser86]

how was Milford? Cedar was slow until about 10:00 the the bite picked up.

It was pretty tough. Lots of little fish and WAY more wind than they called for. The highest I saw was 14mph before I left, I only saw winds under 20mph for about an hour Monday night before the cold front blew in and it didn't slow down from there. I did enjoy the break in the wind Monday night and caught a bunch of little smallmouth off the dam.

Tuesday the wind was blowing when I woke up but I knew I would be a little protected at the dam so I fought my way back to it. Started catching little smallies and whites right away again. About halfway down I hooked a heavy fish and on 6lb test and light action dropshot rod I fought it for probably 5 minutes before I saw color. It hit a grub and I thought for sure it was a cat, wiper, or drum because it was staying down and not trying to jump at all. When I saw goldish brown I eliminated wipers and was hoping it was a cat. Then I got a good look and saw it was a smallmouth and it got way more serious in the boat. I finally got the net under her and put her on the scale. She bounced back and forth between 4 even and 4lbs 1 oz so I called her 4. Only 19 inches long and very fat!

This was the ONLY fish that made the drive worthwhile. Only caught 1 walleye all weekend, no big wipers, TONS of 4-8 inch whites, and the water is still 14 feet high and stinks to high heaven from the blue-green algae. I didn't catch another smallmouth over 12" even and probably only 3 or 4 fish in general that weighed more than a pound. Fished everything I could in 3 and 4 foot waves and a grub was the only consistent producer. I'm hoping the water comes down enough for dad and I to make one more trip out before the water gets hard.

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funny how one fish fixes everything. im going kill creek tomorrow if the wind is right. late afternoon start.

[Bluebasser86]

Well I hit Melvern Sunday afternoon and all day Monday. Second cast with a Sammy and got my first fish of the trip.

I was hoping that meant I was going to tear them up but it wasn't happening. I caught a few more before I went to the dam and lost probably the biggest smallmouth I've ever hooked, it was 5 for sure which would tie my PB. Only put maybe 10 fish in the boat from 4pm-9pm Sunday night so it was pretty tough. Monday started slowly but picked up as the wind started to blow and it warmed up. The fish were eating a small tube but I picked up a little LC C.B.D.S zero crankbait and caught a nice 3 pound walleye pretty quickly.

We went to try a spot my partner suggested off a flat point. He was fishing the tube and I was throwing the crankbait. I hooked what I thought was a limb or drum because it was just kind of dragging in and not really fighting. All the the sudden it stopped and jumped and I couldn't believe the size of the smallmouth that I had hooked and was really nervous about the small hooks and the fact that I only had one hook in the fish. After a long and tense fight, Dick finally managed to get the net under her. She was only 20 inches long but 5 pounds exactly with what I think was a big crappie tail sticking out of her throat.

I caught another one that was probably 3 pounds later in the day on the same crankbait but didn't even bother taking a picture after catching a 5 pounder.

[Chris S]

Deep Fried Wally tonight!!

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Nice smallie! That's the biggest belly I've seen on any fish out there! I was at Melvern on Saturday and the smallie action was pretty slow. Sure would like to catch one like that some day!

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thats why we go to Melvern. were going down Sunday morning.

[Bluebasser86]

I've been lucky enough to catch 3 5 pound smallmouth now, 2 from Milford and 1 from Melvern. I had another one as big if not bigger hooked on a grub but it tossed it. The bite was pretty tough but that little LC crankbait and a bitsy tube on a light jighead was more then they could resist I guess. Mostly small fish on the tube, bigger fish on the crankbait. I had lots of blowups on the Sammy but not many hookups. They were starting to eat a spinnerbait too but the wind died on me and killed that.

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I've been lucky enough to catch 3 5 pound smallmouth now, 2 from Milford and 1 from Melvern. I had another one as big if not bigger hooked on a grub but it tossed it. The bite was pretty tough but that little LC crankbait and a bitsy tube on a light jighead was more then they could resist I guess. Mostly small fish on the tube, bigger fish on the crankbait. I had lots of blowups on the Sammy but not many hookups. They were starting to eat a spinnerbait too but the wind died on me and killed that.

Lucky Craft Gerald Swindle GDS Mini DR

my fav. bait at Melvern. between that and a green pumpkin tube, thats what we use all year.

[Bluebasser86]

Lucky Craft Gerald Swindle GDS Mini DR

my fav. bait at Melvern. between that and a green pumpkin tube, thats what we use all year.

This was a Fat C.B.D.S zero in American Shad color. *** lists it at 1 3/4 inches long with a dive depth of 1/2 foot. I was getting way deeper than that, probably down to 3 or 4 feet deep because I was hitting rocks way out on some of the points. My partner was catching lots of smallmouth on a small junebug colored tube, never would have guessed they'd eat something that color in the lower end of the lake. I normally catch them on a shakeyhead with a 4" GP stickbait but they wanted none of it last week.