Tonight on Platte

Tonight I fished Platte Lake from 5:30PM to 9:30PM.  I started out across from the access in the vicinity of the   maidencaine. I didn't get anything until I got up closer to shore in the Reeds.. I got two 14 inchers on consecutive casts.  I got a 15 on the Grass Pig.  It was the only one I got on the Grass Pig.  The rice is up enough to foul the Grass Pig so I didn't throw it much.  I got into the rushes up by shore and caught some on the Horny Toad and a yellow Spro Bronze Eye Frog.  I fished near a tree that was fallen into the lake and I got a pike.

 I went around the point to check a little river inlet, but a pontoon was sitting on it, so I headed up to the NW Corner. I managed to pooch my first half a dozen bites or more on the Horny Toad before landing this 16", which was my big fish of the night.

I then managed to miss a couple of more good bites.  Of coarse I caught a 12 incher that smacked the Toad.

I moved to the North Point and got 14.5 on the Toad and a couple on the Spro.  I made one last move to the more East North Point and got a 15 on the Toad and a 14" on the Spro.  Over all I missed a lot of bites.

Bay Lake Pre-Fish

I got from 7AM to almost 5PM to fish with Roger Ubl my boater for Saturday's Bay Lake Tournament.  It was a fun day on the water as we caught a ton of fish.  The rap on Bay is that it is a peanut factory and that was pretty much the case as we didn't get a single 3lb bass.  However we did land several quality 2lb fish, which will be gold on tournament day.

I'm not really sure where the fish are in regards to the spawn.  Several of the fish were chunky, but several had raw anal fins but they were still chunky.  One thing is clear, we are gonna catch a lot of pike.  I got 32 pike to my 25 bass and Roger caught about the exact same numbers as me.  I hope the fish are as active on tournament day.

Fishing the Full PRO @ Sullivan

Tonight I fished at the Platte River Outlet from the River Mouth to as far as I could go in the river from 5 to 9PM.  I pulled an idiot and forgot to put the card in the camera and then forgot there is a spare card in the camera case.  I started out at the mouth catching a few pike before I got my first bass.  I caught quite a few fish at the mouth but 15" was the biggest bass I got.  I got a few fish in the river to the dam.  I missed a couple of better fish in that stretch.  I then pounded them pretty good at the dam, also missing lots of bites.  Past the dam was pretty slow with only a couple small bass and pike to show for it.  My biggest bass was a 16" caught just below the dam. I got 11 bass on the Zoom Horny Toad including 5x 15's.  I got 12 bass on a Havoc Grass Pig ; All were 14.5" or under except the 16".  I got a total of 11 pike between 18 and 22 inches.

Rock Again

I headed back to Rock tonight from 6:30PM to 9PM.  Conditions were windy out of the West, cloudy, and cool.  First fish was this pike on a Grass Pig just out from the access.

Didn't get anything after that in the lake so I headed back into the RPRO.  I manged to miss my first 3 or 4 hits before connecting with a 17" bass on the Horny Toad.  I quickly caught a 13" and a 15" and then I missed a bunch of fish.  I moved the boat and got a Toad on the Horny Toad.

I caught a few more 14's and 13's on the Horny Toad and got a 15" on a Yum Wooly Bug.  I also got one more pike also on the Horny Toad.  I missed several more bites on the Horny Toad and a few on the Grass Pig.  Didn't get any hits on the Crawtube.

Crushed 'em On Rock

Tonight I headed out after 6:00PM and was fishing by 6:45PM.  Conditions were brutal with the wind blowing out of the SW about 20 to 30.  However once I got to the Beaver Dam in the Rock Platte River Outlet it was on.  I got this first fish on a white Havoc Grass Pig.

14"

I put down the anchor and proceeded to beat the snot out of them on the Grass Pig (8 fish), a black/white swirl Zoom Horny Toad (11 fish), and a green pumpkin Crawtube (15 fish).  My biggest was this 18.25"

Got her on the Crawtube.  You can see the beat up tail, she was spawned out as was this 17" that hit the Crawtube.

I filled my Bass Pundit Minnesocold Bass Bloggers Derby limit with this 17, a 17.25", 2x 17.50's, and the 18.25".  All in all it was a pretty sweet trip and a great end to the Bass Opener Weekend.

Evening on Erskine

I was going to fish Rock Lake but the Access was packed so I went to Erskine. I fished from 5PM-9PM.  Conditions were windy out of the SE, diminishing and starting to blow as I got off the water.  I basically fished across the North End of the lake from NW to East.  First hit was a pike that didn't hook up.  Next I got a almost 14" bass on the Pure Poison & Craw Fatty.  I got 5 bass on a white Grass Pig and the Pike.  I missed a quality 10lb class pike when it hit the Grass Pig coming towards me.  I didn't get a good hookset.  I caught one on a Fluke at the only dock I fished.  As it calmed down I went back to the NW corner and got 5 on a Horny Toad including my biggest at 16.75".  I didn't take bass pictures early because of the wind, then I forgot about it.  I missed a bunch of hits, mostly small fish, on the Horny Toad but I think I missed one big one.  Not sure what kind of fish it was.  It looked like I was going to get stormed on, so I left about 15 minutes before I should have.

That Was Close

14"

I got a jumpin bullhead, otherwise I would have been skunked for Bass Opener.  Got it on a crawtube.

Morning GOMH Trip

On my way to Bay Lake I stopped at the GOMH and got some bullheads