Sometimes You Make the Right Call

19" Terminator Jig w/ Powerbait Thief trailer

8:25-10:10PM
Conditions: Partly cloudy, warm day, but cooled in the mid 60's after a thunderstorm passed just to the South, no wind.

I thought about taking out the Slop Slip tonight but then we had a thunderstorm threatening around 5:30PM so I nixed that idea.  I almost didn't go at all, but I'm glad I did.

My first stop was at Bulldog.  The 5 bass (17.5,17,16.25,14.25,12.5) I caught were stacked up right in the last of the outflow area before the carp gate and they liked the Terminator Jig with a Powerbait Thief trailer.  Here are the 17's and the jig.

17.5" Post-Spawn

17" Still Pre-Spawn

A boat that had been trolling for pike came in to load, so I headed to Holy Family; nothing going there.  I stopped back at the access briefly.  Then I made the call to by-pass the GOMH and go to the Platte River Culvert.  I pitched the jig in on the West side of the North culvert and the slob waked and then baked it.

Gotcha!

The mosquito's were getting bad so I headed to the GOMH.  There was something busting minnows under the bridge, but I couldn't catch it.  Surprisingly the skeeters weren't that bad at the GOMH.  It was a nice night and the loons were calling and owls hooting, but my back was bugging me, so I didn't keep trying to catch that fish.

Tuesday Morning at the GOMH

19" Storm Short Wart

4:45-7:10AM
Conditions- I bit of mist, cloudy, light wind out of the N, 53 degrees

I arrived hoping to get into a golden bullhead or two.  When it got light enough for me to confidently cast to the near wall on the NE side that dude smacked me on the second cast.

Shortly after that I got this toothy on the Short Wart as well.

19" Storm Short Wart

I didn't catch any jumpin bullheads this morning.  However, I did get a bass at the culvert;  I also missed something a couple of times.  Nothing at the Inlet

16" Terminator Jig w/Thief trailer

Clown Show Catches Some Fish Anyway

The "Slop Slip" 

6:40-9:15PM
Conditions-Sunny, warm, light wind out of the E SE turning calm.

I dug my 10' Coleman Crawdad the Slop Slip out of the backyard and put it in at Bulldog Lake.  My tackle selection wasn't well thought out.  I didn't bring a hollow body frog rod or any weedless swimbait hooks.  Only pike wanted the Horny Toad.  I missed about my first 6 bites and dubbed what I was doing a "clown show".  Finally I got one on a Swamp Gas Grass Pig.

15.5 Grass Pig

I got into an area where I saw a couple of fish boil and got a good bite on a H2O Xpress Slush Minnow prop bait.

17.5" 

The fish tangled the flag so a car won't run into it because it hangs out the back of the Expedition.  I stupidly didn't put it in the boat.  Clown show, luckily I still landed it.

Where the bass were.

I had a really nice pike, I'd say 35" or so, follow my Horny Toad in.  I got one last bass (14.5") on the Terminator Jig with a Thief trailer.  The fish weren't nearly as active on the surface as last night

Another Beautiful Morning at the GOMH

Muskrat swims across the channel markers

My favorite this morning

No fish at this point, but a couple topwater hits

4:45-7:30AM GOMH
7:40-8:30AM Bulldog
8:40-9:00AM Peavy

Condtions- Cool 38 degrees to start, I wore my long johns, clear, and calm

No goldens this morning even though I was there early enough this morning.  Had a couple toothy's unsuccessfully try to steal a Phantom and a couple jumpers not get it.

17.5" Ebay Chatterjig w/Fluke trailer

 I got this rather unhealthy looking 17 incher on my bubblegum colored chatterjig just before I moved to the South side.  On the South side I got a couple of 13's on a Terminator Jig with Powerbait Thief trailer and a Chigger Craw.  Nobody showed up to fish the whole time I was there.  Missed a hit or two subsurface at Bulldog and possibly one at Peavy as well.

Luck Only At The GOMH Tonight

Tonight I got out from 8:30PM to 9:45PM.  I hit the culvert first. I missed a fish that nailed my "Big Sexy" in the same spot I got the big one last night.  Unfortunately I didn't hook it.  Had another fish swirl on it and I may have had a couple hits when I sent it under the culvert but I didn't feel anything.  I just heard splashes.

At the GOMH I took the SW side as somebody was on the North side.  I got 2 small jumpers and missed a couple on the Frenzy Popper and had a small one jump me off on the Hack Attack Jig-n-Thief.  I went to go to the North side and the people had left.  I had a jumper jump me off on the Horny Toad and the Hack Jig. It stole my Thief.  I got this 15.5" on the Zoom Super Fluke as the mosquito's were closing in on me.

Derby Fish Tonight from the Culvert

She choked it!

Not one good photo.  I hit the micro button

Tonight I got this 19.25" slob at the Culvert.  That will put me over 20lbs in the Derby.  For some reason I decided to throw the Tru Tungsten Mad Maxx frog first and I was rewarded with that choice. I got a dink pike on the Hack Jig and had 14" or so bass jump me off.  I got a 15" or so jumpin bullhead at the GOMH on the Mad Maxx;  It now sinks pretty quickly, so I'm going to retire it.  I missed a couple of hits on the Mad Maxx as well.  John and his daughter were at the GOMH and got at least 4 jumpers.  A couple of teenagers were fishing at the GOMH as well.  He had a small jumper and golden bullhead in his pail.

This Mornings Sunrise

I also fished at the GOMH in the morning. I got 3 small jumpers on the Frenzy Popper and missed a couple as well.  A couple small jumpers on the Fluke and a 15.5" on the Mad Maxx.  I also fished at the Culvert and Inlet but didn't get anything.

Tonight At The Culvert And GOMH

Sun Setting at the Culvert

Sun Setting in my beard and 14.90" Culvert Bass on Hack Jig with Powerbait Thief Trailer

I got 2 bass and 2 pike at the culvert. One a piece on the Hack Attack Jig with a watermelon Chigger Craw Trailer and one a piece on the Hack Jig with Powerbait Thief trailer.

I then headed to the GOMH

Sunset at the GOMH

15.25" Horny Toad Jumpin' Bullhead

I got the two fish that struck at my Horny Toad tonight; the one in the picture and a 14". Those were my only two bites at the GOMH tonight.  The old Indian guy got 4 small jumpin bullheads fishing the South side with a leech.