MaineBassMan Posted March 23, 2012 Posted March 23, 2012 Well made it back out today. There was a great crank bait bite but the wind was bad 20mph steady with gust up to 30mph. I caught 23 smallies today and my father caught 6. Our average bass was over three pounds, our five best bass went 18 lbs 11 oz. the biggest bass was exactly 4 lbs even. Not too bad considering the wind, I lost one close to five pounds. Water temps were between 46-48 degrees. Quote
Mountain Angler Posted March 24, 2012 Posted March 24, 2012 Great pics man it looks like you had a good day. Quote
MaineBassMan Posted March 26, 2012 Author Posted March 26, 2012 Mountain Angler, yes I had a great time! I went to one of my favorite largemouth lakes on Saturday caught only two. The water there was much colder. It seems winter isn't ready to let go yet! The temps have dropped back down, we were having 60-70 degree days last week, now we are back in the 30's. The big thing is that all of the lakes are finally ice out so all we need is a few days of good weather and then the bass fishing will be awesome! Quote
Super User Crestliner2008 Posted March 26, 2012 Super User Posted March 26, 2012 Awesome fish catching! Quote
MaineBassMan Posted March 26, 2012 Author Posted March 26, 2012 Crestliner what is the water temp down your way? Have you been out yet? Your fishing must be a couple of weeks ahead of ours? Quote
Super User Dwight Hottle Posted March 26, 2012 Super User Posted March 26, 2012 Looks like you started where you left off last year. Those brown fish make everyone smile. 1 Quote
Super User Crestliner2008 Posted March 26, 2012 Super User Posted March 26, 2012 Crestliner what is the water temp down your way? Have you been out yet? Your fishing must be a couple of weeks ahead of ours? After last week, the water temps down here are up into the low 50's, but we're getting a "hard freeze" tonight and a severe cold front just came through, so all bets are off! I main fish for smallies on the Quabbin Reservoir. She doesn't open until the 3rd. Sat. in April, unfortunately. I haven't been out for smallies at all this year yet! Can't wait! Quote
Big Al23 Posted March 26, 2012 Posted March 26, 2012 Great job on those smallies.I've yet to catch a largie or smallie. Need to find a boat first. Sold the last two boats this yr and last. Quote
Siebert Outdoors Posted March 26, 2012 Posted March 26, 2012 I'm not seeing any cobwebs. Nice smallies! Quote
Super User smalljaw67 Posted March 26, 2012 Super User Posted March 26, 2012 What kind of crank and how deep? Those are nice fish and to get on a crank bite is awesome, you just got to love that early in the season! Great job! Quote
MaineBassMan Posted March 26, 2012 Author Posted March 26, 2012 What kind of crank and how deep? Those are nice fish and to get on a crank bite is awesome, you just got to love that early in the season! Great job! Series 3 or 5 can't remember, strike king 6-9 foot diving green gizzard shad color. I was catching my bass in 8-9 foot of of water. I would crank it down till I made contact with the bottom. As soon as I felt bottom I would slow my retrieve down as slow as I could and keep contact with the bottom, all of a sudden the rod would load up and I thought "dang I'm stuck".... then you could feel the head shakes! 1 Quote
Brewerbass Posted March 29, 2012 Posted March 29, 2012 Nice fish. Went out last saturday and caught 60 green ones. Tried sunday for smallies and the cold front didnt help. Did catch a couple despite the 39 degree water. A couple of warm days will get them biting again. Too bad about your club losing the events on the flowage, lots of bs involved with that. Quote
Super User A-Jay Posted March 29, 2012 Super User Posted March 29, 2012 Great Job man. I'd say you gentlemen started out in fine fashion. I was going to ask you what the crankbait of choice was, but you covered that above. Thanks for sharing, great story, cool photo's and bud - you live in a smb fisherman's dreamland, not only for the fish and lack of fishing pressure but the shear beauty of the back round in your photo's is sweet. A-Jay Quote
MaineBassMan Posted March 31, 2012 Author Posted March 31, 2012 Nice fish. Went out last saturday and caught 60 green ones. Tried sunday for smallies and the cold front didnt help. Did catch a couple despite the 39 degree water. A couple of warm days will get them biting again. Too bad about your club losing the events on the flowage, lots of bs involved with that. TONS OF BS involved with the closure of GFF. We provided 10 years worth of tournament fishing records (more data than they could provide), all of our records pointed to a thriving fishery that was only getting better, not the .5 fish a day they were reporting! They said that our records only backed their findings...??????????? Then they told us that the fishery couldn't handle one more dead smallmouth killed from C&R tournaments....in those 10 years of tournament fishing records we only had 5 bass die with thousands of fish being caught! Makes no sense at all. Being a bass fishing club we are all for catch & release, but why should this affect catch and release tournaments????? Quote
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