Waded Saturday. Late start. Caught bass on spinnerbait, crankbait, wakes, and buzzbait. Black fry under the bridge I ditched the bike at.
Pulled a lamprey off one fish's head, thought I had severed or crushed its spine, but it swam off. Leech on my shin when I got home. Took about 45 minutes to stop the bleeding (leeches secrete an anti coagulant as well as a local anesthetic.
22 SMB in 4 hours (16.5",16")
Sunday again started late. Brand new water. On the water around 1:30PM. Brought Wendy with. Wakebaits to begin and cranks just to check. Lots of 12-15" smallmouth. Had 22 in the first 2 hours. We waded downstream after finishing the job up. Wendy had an incedent with a softshell turtle on a beach. Staredown. When he swam away, she thought she'd find him.
Walking downstream- the deeper water pools, I pulled a 1/4oz grub with some good results. Pool-riffle after riffle pool. Smallies were fighting like nuts, lost more than a few on jumps.
Black fry were clearly moving around and eating now, maybe 3/5" long and getting thick. Weren't many places I didn't find them on this stream. Wendy was getting tired so we headed back upstream. I ment to cover ground so I threw a WBZ. Nailed a nice greenie then a spawned out 18" off a laydown.
Thin, spawned out Smallie that taped the same as the LMB above.
47 bass 45 SMB 2LMB (2-18", 2-16, 5- 15-15.75") 4 Googs and a chub. All that action in only 5.5 hours
Pulled a lamprey off one fish's head, thought I had severed or crushed its spine, but it swam off. Leech on my shin when I got home. Took about 45 minutes to stop the bleeding (leeches secrete an anti coagulant as well as a local anesthetic.
22 SMB in 4 hours (16.5",16")
Sunday again started late. Brand new water. On the water around 1:30PM. Brought Wendy with. Wakebaits to begin and cranks just to check. Lots of 12-15" smallmouth. Had 22 in the first 2 hours. We waded downstream after finishing the job up. Wendy had an incedent with a softshell turtle on a beach. Staredown. When he swam away, she thought she'd find him.
Walking downstream- the deeper water pools, I pulled a 1/4oz grub with some good results. Pool-riffle after riffle pool. Smallies were fighting like nuts, lost more than a few on jumps.
Black fry were clearly moving around and eating now, maybe 3/5" long and getting thick. Weren't many places I didn't find them on this stream. Wendy was getting tired so we headed back upstream. I ment to cover ground so I threw a WBZ. Nailed a nice greenie then a spawned out 18" off a laydown.
Thin, spawned out Smallie that taped the same as the LMB above.
47 bass 45 SMB 2LMB (2-18", 2-16, 5- 15-15.75") 4 Googs and a chub. All that action in only 5.5 hours
BT,
ReplyDeleteJust stop in to say great looking pics and action. Have not been out in awhile with the wild weather here. Stay well and keep up the action.
Mark