Skunked With Todd

Todd's Fish

My Fish

7:30-8:50PM
67℉, Post Storm, Windy Windy Windy

The storm passed at 6:45PM but lightening continued until 7:20PM and the wind didn't back off like it was supposed to do. I aborted on where I wanted to go and went to East of GOMH. We had a couple of swirls and I missed a good blow up in the pads. I then took us to NSPRO and we didn't even get a sniff.

Skunked!

The wind will be backed off by morning. Hopefully, the fish will be more active then.

Morning and Evening Small Fish

25.5" Northland (Chuck's)

6:00AM-Noon NPBI, SPBI, CIB, GWBC, N & S SPRO, I Juice
72-65℉, MC, 3-10mph SE
69-70℉ Low Falling

Started at North Point Big Island. Got two small bass, a crappie, and two pike there. I was lucky the bigger pike (25.5) didn't break my line when it ran under the boat. I then went to MPBI, nothing. Then SPBI where I got a small bass. Nothing at SPSI. Then I went to CIB and missed some bites and got a pike or two. Nothing at the GOMH into Sullivan. I got a bass on the Sprinker along the GOMH Wall Boat Channel opening. Nothing on the I Point. I worked all the way into shore missing the only blow up I had. I spent the rest of the morning in the N&S SPRO and I Juice catching a few and missing a few. Unfortunately, all of the bigger bites evaded me.
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8:10-8:50PM East of Jenny's
80℉, PC, Humid, 2-4mph SW

Found out what was up with Snatcher Chuck not fishing to the BASS Nation State Tournament. Went East of Jenny's. Caught the first blow up on about my 4th cast, a 13-incher. I then missed my next 5 bites. With no bites in the final 20 minutes of fishing. I should have hauled for better water the second I was aware fish were biting. OH well.

Sucky Short Night On Platte

7:20-9:00PM N Reeds Across, Loon Bay, East of GOMH
65℉, Cloudy some sprinkles, 6-8mph ESE

No pic's because I didn't land anything.

I got a late start because it was raining and I decided to eat dinner. I started at North Reeds Across. Missed one bite. Then I went to Loon Bay, nothing, Last stop was East Of GOMH. I got a few pike bites there and missed a couple that might have been bass, who knows. I ended on SPSI without a bite.

Good Size, but Slow Morning

3.21lbs/17.25 Sparrow

Engulfment

3.28lbs/17.5" Blitz Black/Red

14.28lbs

6:10-10:00AM Big Rice, 6lb Flat, NSPRO
70-57℉, MS, 3-8mph SSW
70-72℉

Started at NPBI, nothing. Then I went to Big Rice Point. I made a cast on the backside and my view was blocked by the tall rice when the first 3lber crushed it. I then went deep into 6lb Flat. I decided to put the Sparrow down and got the second 3lber on my first cast with the Black Blitz Frog.  That was the only bite I got at 6lb Flat. I went back to Big Rice and got two bass there on the Sprinker. I then skedaddled to NSPRO starting by the final boat lane. I missed a good bite on the Blitz Black. I did get two Platte Lake Specials on the Sparrow along with a couple of pike. Dropped a couple more as well. I thought I was going to get out in the evening, but I took to long before heading off to Little Falls so I didn't.

So So Night In the Trophy, Didn't Land A Bass Until 8:30PM

2.38lbs/15.9" Sparrow

7:00-9:00PM Channel Inn Bay, 6lb Flat to Big Rice Point

67-83℉, MS, 0-9mph WNW

74℉ 

I decided to start in Channel Inn Bay with the wind being what it was. I got a couple of pike and lost one bass and maybe had one other bass blow up.  It clearly wasn't happening so I went and tried the hot area from yesterday. I think I missed a bite way back in there, but it wasn't happening, so I scooted to 6lb Flat.  It started out with Pike, but I did get 3 bass (14,12,15.9) and missed a few more hits. I didn't weigh the 12-incher. I got the 15.9" on the last cast of the night off of Big Rice.

3 Bass

7 Pike

Fun, Slow, Wet Trip

2.60/16.75" Bobby's Perfect (Sparrow)

2.86lbs/17.75" Sparrow

Morning Lightening Delay

Afternoon Rain Delay

14.68lbs

8:00AM-12:30PM Access Across, NSPRO, Intersection Juice
1:40-3:00PM East Of GOMH School, LSB
76-68℉, Cloudy to Partly Cloudy with Rain, 4-13mph SE
72-74℉

The 5PM forecast was wrong! Thunderstorms did develop in the morning. I had my stuff ready to go at 6PM, but a thunderstorm was almost upon me. I ended up sitting until 8AM. Then I went to Access Across and only got a couple swirls in an hour so I left. I tried the GOMH, nothing. Intersection nothing. I got into fish along the North Sullivan Platte River Outlet Rice Line.  Bunch of Platte Lake Specials with a few pike mixed in.  I also missed/lost a fair number of bites.  I was working my way back up the SSPRO when the wind really increased then it started to rain. I got a couple fish off of the Intersection Juice. The rain stopped. I started fishing down the NSPRO again. It started to rain again, so I headed for the bridge to wait it out. I was under there for about an hour. I worked my way up the GOMH getting nothing. I found a school of bass right at the start of East of GOMH. There is also some cabbage there beyond the slop where I was getting fish. I missed 3 or 4 bites in addition to the 5 I caught. I finished in Loon Bay not getting a bite

Good Trip Tonight, But A Lot of Misses And Two More Lost Sparrows

2.8?/17" Bobby's Perfect (Sparrow)

2.64lbs/17" Sparrow

6:00-9:00PM Channel Inn Bay Center Rice Point
73-81℉, Mostly Cloudy, 0-3mph SE
78℉ Low falling

I started on the northside of the rice point in Channel Inn Bay and worked to the South. At 8:30 I drove back to where I started and worked the northside until the skeeters got to me at 9PM. On about my tenth cast, I had a good fish on, but it got free as I was trying to bring it out of the rice. I got 3 or 4 fish off of the tip and I got bites all the way down on the Southside, but my hooking percentage was terrible especially after I got the 2nd 17-incher.  It was really frustrating missing bite after bite. I noticed I hooked two fish in the chin, so some fish were not eating the frog.  But other fish were choking it. Not sure there is much I can do when they are biting like that. On the northside, I got three 14-inchers and a 13-incher. I also got bit off twice in the East 15-minutes. That is a lot of frogs down the last few trips.

12 Bass
5 Pike

Good Morning Trip, but A Lot of Misses And 3 Frogs Down

3.06lbs/17.75" Sparrow

13.31lbs

5:50AM-11:30AM NPBI, MPBI, SPBI, GOMH, Intersection, NSPRO
70-68℉, MC, 4-14mph SE
70-74℉

The plan was to go to Access Across before the wind came up. I stopped at the North Point of the Big Island and got a bass (14.75) and a pike on the Northland Spinnerbait, so I amended the plan and ran points. I got a 13.5" and lost a fish at the Middle Point Big Island and got nothing, but pike at SPBI. Nothing at SPSI.  The wind was up by 6:30, so I went to the GOMH instead. I got a 13.5" on both sides of the bridge off of pads. I had a 17/18 miss the frog on the East side of the Channel. I lost a fish back in a rice pocket. I had the legs taken off of a Sparrow at the Intersection Point. I got a pike there on the Northland Spinnerbait. I then worked the NSPRO getting bites along the rice edge getting the fish about 50% of time. I worked my way although down to the neckdown spot.  I got three smaller bass there. The wind was really ripping now. I went up and worked the SSPRO and didn't get a bite. Boat control was an issue. I then went back for one more pass on the NSPRO. I missed a couple of bites and really worked to get my last fish, which bit in the boat Channel. In addition to losing legs on a Sparrow, I lost 2 weights on the frogs. Bummer Man. I missed way too many bites.

11 Bass
10 Pike

Good Evening Trip

3.32lbs/17" Bobby's Perfect (Sparrow)

12.89lbs

6:30-9:15PM N Reeds Across, Loon Sex Bay, East of GOMH, Channel Inn Bay
76-68℉, Mostly Cloudy, 3-8mph SE
72-75℉ Low and falling

I decided to hit North Reeds across and had a fish strike and miss on my first cast. Two casts later a 15.5" was in the boat. A few minutes later I got  16-incher along the pad/reed line. A few minutes later I had another 15.5" in the boat from the pad/reed edge. I missed one bite when I went to the shallow side of the pads.

Next, I headed to Loon Bay to try and get the fish I lost yesterday.  Not sure if the 17-incher was the same fish, but it was a chub at 3.32lbs. I also caught two 14.5's, a 13" and a 21-inch pike. I then headed East of GOMH. I missed one bite out in the rice patches.  It wasn't happening, so I went to Channel Inn Bay. I got a 15" off of Jaimen's neighbors and two small fish as I made my way North.

10 Bass
2 Pike

Tough Morning, Better Evening

6:00-9:00AM Access Across to 6lb Flat
70-60℉, Sunny, 0-3mph SW
69-71℉

Started behind the cane, didn't get a bite until I got into Todd's Opening where I got my only bass bite of the morning. I proceeded to get two Sparrow's bit off a few minutes later in TO.  Those were my last frog bites of the morning. There was some fish activity, but not where I put my casts. I did get a pike on the Northland Spinnerbait as I was approaching the Cane from Big Rice. I drifted through the rice bed across and didn't get a bite. Bummer of a trip.
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3.41lbs/18" Bobby's Perfect (Sparrow)

2.31lbs/16" Sparrow

Rice drift Looking Toward Chanel Inn By

13.20lbs

6:00-9:00 PM Loon Sex Bay, East of GOMH
68-74℉, Mostly Sunny, 0-8MPH WSW
72-74℉

I started in Loon Bay. First bite was a pike. I worked my way North along Center Junk and lost a good bass that buried me in the coontail. I did get a 14" and a 16" and another pike. I then played the wind going East of GOMH starting just outside the GOMH. I got 3 bass (15,15,18) there and missed 2 or 3 more. Unfortunately, the bite just quit at about 8:35PM. I did try SPSI and didn't get any bites.

Slow Night Platte/Sullivan

16" Bobby's Perfect (Sparrow)

6:30-9:00PM F Flat, NSPRO, Intersection
67-74℉, PC/MS, 0-3mph SW
76-74℉ Water Low falling

Threw the spinnerbait and Ploppers on F Flat for about half an hour getting one pike by the Brown Boathouse dock. Then I headed into Sullivan. Lost my first bite on Bobby's just outside of the first boat lane right where it should be. Got a good hookset it just came off.  Didn't get another hit until I was up by the rice point; The 16" in the picture, just a flesh wound. I got a 12-incher out of the reeds in the NW slop. Also had a pike miss the Sparrow there. KInd of a sucky night. Power for the coarse at this point.

Morning And Evening Slow Fishing

16" Bobby's Perfect (Sparrow)

6:00-9:00AM NPBI Big Rice and 6LB Flat
65-52℉, MS, 0-4mph NE
70℉ LOw falling

Stopped at NPBI first getting a small pike on the SBKO orange. Then it was off to Big Rice Point where I spent the rest of the morning. Got 4 bass bites landing 3 (16, 16, 14) of them. Had a pike steal the orange SBKO for about 45-minutes or so. I spotted the lure once and the fish jumped several times trying to shake it which I could hear when it did. Finally, it broke free and fortunately it was where could see it when it did.
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13.5" Bobby's Perfect (Sparrow)

6:30-9:15PM N Platte Lake Drive Pt, Starting Spot Rice, NW Juice
64-70℉, MS, 0-3mph NE
72-74℉ Falling Low

I spent an hour exploring from the North Big Island Channel to the Reeds in Inlet Bay. Didn't get a bite. The area is devoid of cabbage. It does have some coontail and northern milfoil and a bunch of carpetweed. I then hit the Cookie Jar area not getting anything until I was well past the Starting Spot. Got two small bass on two consecutive casts. The second got hooked in the tongue and wasn't going to make it so I took it for Jan. It wasn't happing so I went to the NW Juice. I got one pike there in the slop and a dink pike on the way out on the Horny Toad, disappointing. There was just no activity in the NW Juice. It looks great though.

Morning Trip With Todd

16.75" Mad Maxx (Bluegrass)

15.75" Sparrow

6:00-9:30AM Big Rice Point to 6lb Flat
70-63℉, Sunny, 2-12mph NE

Started at Big Rice trying to recreate yesterday's magic. Didn't happen.  We both got 3 bass a piece in the scattered rice. Had a few fish not get the frogs. After I dropped Todd off I went to the Reeds Across for about an hour missing one fish in the pads reeds along the inside reed line.

Slow Morning and Evening With Todd, But Good Size

3.92lbs/18.5" Big Sexy

3.26lbs/16.5" Terminator (Yellow)

4.07lbs/20.25" Sparrow

17.25-inches and less weight than Todd's 16.5"

6:00-9:30AM Big Island Bust, Access Across Point to 6lb Flat
70-60℉, Cloudy to Mostly Sunny some light rain, 2-7mph SW W NW
74-76℉ Falling

We tried the East side of the Big Island to start. Total bust. Then I headed us to the Point across from the Platte Lake Access. Todd lost the first bite in the reeds, a fair bass. I got a small pike. Then nothing until Todd got a chub 16.5-incher that was over 3lbs. Then Todd got his big for the day casting back to the spot multiple times after it missed the first time. I finally got on the board with a 17.25" then the big girl struck in an open area on Big Rice Point. We worked our way to 6lb Flat both getting one more quality bass apiece. My 3 went 10.25 and Todd's 3 went 9.25. We worked for them, but when we got a bite it was a good one.
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17" on Big Sexy Just before it was stolen

We both filled our limits on our last cast

Todd's Bag 16.57lbs

My Bag 16.44lbs

7:00-9:30PM Deep Melon Patch to 6lb Flat
67-73℉, Mostly Sunny, 2-8mph NNE
76-77℉ Falling

Started off in the Melon Patch, nothing. I took us in behind the rice line and got a pike, then a bass. Todd then got a 17-incher on Big Sexy. I heard something get crunched but couldn't see where. Todd found the spot and got himself another 3lb 17-inch fish on the Big Sexy. Todd then caught a pike then had the Big Sexy get stolen. I got a bass n my first throw with the Sprinker. Todd had several fish, not get his frog and not return and get it. I closed out my limit on my last cast of the night as did Todd.  Todd ended up just edging me for the day and our combined limit was over 20lbs, not bad.