Wednesday, October 6, 2010

Some reports meld together

I'm still fishing. Low, clear water. Chuck this topwater or that topwater a long way. Guage fish reaction. Find lure that illicits the most response. This has been the pattern for 2 months.

Saturday was the worst day I've had since going south to Kentucky in July. Buzzbaits early caught a couple. By afternoon bass were slapping and missing Sammy 100. MC and I tried out a Sammy 65 and started catching everything in the river. Ended up with 28 smallies together with about 3 in the 15-15.5" range in 8 hours. Nothing epic.

Previous weekend saw Sammy 100 bite to the east, bunch of 14-16" chunky smb.

The day after was a lack of pattern bite until I hit the best water. Got an absolute pig 18.5 on a Kelly J Prop bait, 21 in about 5 hours.

Truly has been a great year of fishing as I close in on 1400 Smallies in under 350 hours. Since May, Smallmouth fishing has been on fire. Plenty of 15-17", 20"+ bass, but far less 18-19" than usual. Really more than anything is the lack of enjoyable places to fish with any water in them!

Might be done for a while. It is just getting a little boring. (Did I say that?) Maybe if it rains a bunch.

4 comments:

  1. I hit that "meh I'll do something else" point a couple weeks ago. I get there every year at some point. Will be fired up and ready to go after that first snowfall...

    Nate

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  2. There's always ice fishing in a few months. ;)

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  3. At least you are fishing! I'm mainly a trout man although I do my share of bass fishing. The season for the most part is over here and that makes me sad.

    Nice blog by the way.

    The Average Joe Fisherman
    http://averagejoefisherman.blogspot.com/

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  4. Ice fishing for perch and walleyes would be nice. Sadly we have no ice or perch, but plenty of creeks to fish when it is in the single digits.

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