5:30-6:15 GOMH
7:00-NOON Melon Patch, Access Docks West of Pads
Conditions: 54-78℉, Sunny with fog in the morning, Calm
Water Temp: 75℉
I started off the day at the Grumpy Old Man Hole. I got one small jumper on the NE side. He hit the Shower Blows 105 about 7 times before I finally got him. I had a toothy miss the Shower Blows on the SW side. This what I saw when I came up to leave.
There was almost no fog on the East side of the lake.
Once I got to the West side of the Big Island I was in the soup. As I got over toward the Access the shoreline became visible and I got to the Melon Patch no problem.
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| The fog burned off fast after I arrived |
I tried to expand the productive water to the South and there was lots of baitfish activity, but nothing to indicate any bass. I got to where I started last night and saw a dogfish in a hole in the weeds. When I flipped a jig at it, it spooked.
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| 16.5" Bobby's Perfect (Sparrow SF) |
Basically, I caught a fish in the same spot as last night to start things off. It may have been the same fish. I was sitting in the middle of the Melon Patch not catching anything when I remembered catching some fish in the same looking stuff on a Horny Toad in a Snatchers Tournament on Leech Lake a few years back.
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| 16.25" Horny Toad (Pumpkin) |
About 5 casts in that guy wrecked my Toad. I caught two other bass on the Toad and a good sized green sided toad destroyer. At 11AM I left the Melon Patch to go try some docks. I got a couple of 13-inchers off of the tree at the first dock on the Terminator Jig with Chigger Craw trailer. The second bass did the Chigger Craw in so I switched to a black red fleck Craw Fatty. I got a total dink near shore off of a boat lift and two 12-inchers off the second to last boat lift I fished. It was now noon and I had been on the water long enough.
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| 14.25" Bobby's Perfect (Sparrow) |
7:15-9:15PM Melon Patch
Conditions: 78-70℉, Mostly Sunny, Calm-6MPH NW Wind
Water Temp: 78℉
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| First fish caught well after 8PM |
Steve was up for some fishing tonight, so scrapped my plan to hit "The Dock" and went straight to the Melon Patch. Once again I started to the South. I missed a small fish right away. I then had a good fish "dog me" fairly close to the boat. That means it waked and hit my frog without getting it. I'm not sure if it was a dogfish or not. I tried to get the fish to hit a jig and Texas Rigged Chigger Craw, but it wasn't interested. There wasn't a whole lot going on to the South, so at 8 beelined for the area where I caught fish last night. Steve got the dink to get the skunk out of the boat. He caught the 14-incher about 10 minutes later. I had a pike "dog me" then steal my jig and had another fish dog me in close to the boat. What a disappointing trip. There were fish there, they just didn't want topwater tonight.
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| 10.95lbs for my Best 6 Bass of the Day |
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