Last Fish Of the Night Was A Hawg!!!

19" Pure Poison w/Craw Fatty

2:30-5:15PM Inside of the reed line across the way and the juice flat/F Flat
Conditions: 59-50 degrees, Mostly Sunny, Windy S SW, Water Temp: 47 degrees.

Because of the wind, I started in the calm water along our shoreline and drifted out in Jenny's reeds.  Didn't get anything.  I then went across the way and drifted through the reeds, not getting anything.  I got between the reeds and shore and got a couple of small pike on the H2O Lipless.  When I came to the North patch of reeds across the way.  I drifted through them, missing one hit.

I then drove over to the juice and found some more pike on the H2O.  Some of them in really shallow water.  I missed a few hits as well.

23" H2O LCR

I then went a long time without getting a bite.  It stayed too windy for topwater, but I did give it a try anyway. My upper back was beginning to bother me, and I was about to call it quits when the 19 incher struck the Poison.  I half expected it to be a good-sized pike.  It fought with a lot of power.  Here is what it looked like just after I caught the fish.

  I had one other good fish on that hit the Poison that got off before I had a chance to see it.  I think I got a little careless trying to get a look at the fish rather than just playing it.  I gave up shortly after that.

Election Day Pike, Bass, and Crappie Action on F Flat

17.75" River2Sea Bubble Walker

3:00-7:00PM N Side of Don's Bay Juice/F Flat 
Conditions: 57-40 degrees, Mostly Sunny, NNW Wind turning calm, Water Temp 49-48 degrees.

I started out fishing in the juice reeds.  Didn't get anything there, but as soon as I went onto the flat I started getting pike the biggest of which was.  I caught 4 and had a few hits I didn't get to see.  I then moved closer to shore in the calm water and fished with the Bubble Walker.  I had a fish up by shore, miss.  I cast back and had another bite and I got it.

14.5" Bubble Walker

 I think it might have been a different smaller fish.  I then got a 15" bass in the thick shallow cabbage on the Bubble Walker.  Fish then started busting here and there.  I got the 17.75" casting out.  It was hooked in the gill, but I got it unhooked and back in the water quickly.  I think it will survive.

Where the sun was at when I got the 17.75"

I moved around on the juice chasing busting fish, but then they started busting all around me, but I couldn't get a hit.  And the one's that did didn't get the lure.  My last fish of the night was a crappie of all things.

11" Bubble Walker

It was yet another beautiful November night on the lake.

 

Forget The Memory Card for the Camera

13.75" Strike King Spinnerbait w/Swim Fluke Jr. white

3:00-6:00PM Intersection in Sullivan, N side of Don's Bay Juice/F Flat
Conditions: Low 60's, Partly Cloudy, SSW Wind diminishing late, 50-48 Water Temp

I decided to head back to the Intersection in Sullivan first thing.  I had a fish hit the swim jig on the very first cast.  The sucker swam straight at more than 3/4 of the way back to the boat and got off.  Don't know what it was or how big.  That was it on the SW corner.  The wind was kind of a pain.  I decided to hit the NE point and got the one I kept for Jan there.  At 4PM I bailed for the juice.

Nothing where Pete and I got them in the reeds the other night.  I was drifting across the flat and I got a 22.5" pike and a 16.25" bass on the Pure Poison with the Craw Fatty.  I then had a fish on that took my skirt and the Craw Fatty and got off.  Felt like a good fish, whatever it was.

At least I got the jig back

It calmed down a bit and I started throwing topwater prop baits, but nothing was going on until after the sun went down.  Then some fish started getting popped here and there.  The fish were really active for a while off of the juice over by the reeds.  I will have to check that area out tomorrow.  It calmed down even more and I got an 18.25" bass on the Bubble Walker.  It was pretty dark when that fish hit.

I put the Bubble Walker away and was throwing my last cast with the X-Prop when a fish blew up on it but missed.  Unfortunately, it didn't come back to get it.  It was a big fish whatever it was.  I stayed out late because of that fish and because it was so pleasant out. I thought about hitting the GOMH but didn't.

Fishing With Pete Again

18" Pure Poison w/Craw Fatty

2:00-5:30PM Don's Point to Loon Sex Bay
Conditions: 64-57 degrees, Mostly sunny, Windy SW, 49 degree water temp.

Pete fishing in Loon Sex Bay

 Another beautiful November day to be on the lake.  With the Vikes giving up a TD just before half-time to the Lions, I was ready to go fishing.  I did record the game to watch later.  Pete wanted to give Loon Sex Bay a try, so I suggested we troll there, which we did.  I was using the Poison with a Craw Fatty and Pete was using a Jointed Rapala in Clown color  I got hung on something on the bottom as we came across the end of Don's Point.  Fortunately I was able to get it loose.  We then continued on to Loon Sex Bay and Pete got a hammer handle. We turned back around and trolled to Don's Dock then back to Loon Sex Bay.  Pete got a hammer handles in Loon Sex Bay after I turned toward Loon Sex Point when we reached lily pads.  At that point, we stopped trolling and I went to the trolling motor.  The wind was blowing us to the Don's Point side of the Bay.  I threw up by the hay line and had a 16" bass nail the Poison.

16" Poison w/Craw Fatty

We then caught a few pike. Pete got a nice bass on the Jointed Rap.

??17?? Jointed Rap

Pete didn't think it was even 16 inches and I was thinking that's a 17 inch fish.  After he took the picture he threw it back without measuring it.  I worked our way back up Don's Point.  Getting a 23" pike that we kept.  Pete switched to a spinnerbait and started getting hits on that catching a few more pike.  Pete was disappointed that we were only getting small one's.  I worked our way over to Loon Sex Point and my rod bowed up and just didn't budge.  I thought I had hung in a big clump up weeds, but then it started fighting.  I knew it was gonna be a good fish.

18" Poison (same as first pic)

18" with camera on the fritz

I was kind of expecting it to be a big pike, but instead it was a linebacker bass.  That was my last hit of the night.  I did throw topwater for about 15 minutes in the calm water along Loon Sex Point.  Pete lost his last hit of the night when the fish jumped him off at the point at start of the slop on LSP.  On the way back we stopped at Don's to get a bag to put the pike in.

Not a filter, camera on the fritz with the flash going off

I ended up with 2 bass and 6 pike

Another Beautiful Night On Platte And Pete Showed Up

17.75" Bubble Walker

3:00-6:30PM On the Juice F Flat
Conditions: 71-64 degrees, Mostly Sunny, Light SW wind turning calm, 49 degrees water temp.

Pete was running late per usual, so I headed out by myself a little after 3PM.  I went to the juice.  Couldn't get anything to go on topwater.  The first cast on the bluegill Pure Poison with a Swamp Gas Grass Pig got me a small pike.  A guy was running his leaf blower, which was so darn annoying, and then the girls from last night came out and started singing together, ugh.  I got over by where the last dock used to be in the water.  I got two bass (13.5, 16) there on the Poison.

16" Pure Poison w/Grass Pig

  I got one more pike as I worked my way back across the flat.  At 4:45 I headed in to pick up Pete who brought chicken.  We were off by 5:30 and briefly hit West Point.

I then headed for the juice.  Pete tied on a Skitter Pop and almost immediately got nailed by a good fish toward the reeds.  The rod he was using didn't have much backbone to it, and the fish got off.  I started throwing the Bubble Walker.   I had one hit me in the reeds and swim at me at Mach 1 and got off.  I had one miss, but I stuck with it and landed the 17.75", which, as you can see, was a true chunk.

17.75" Bubble Walker

 I then got another nice one.

17" Bubble Walker

Pete missed another one.  I had something look at it, but it wouldn't take it.  I got a small pike over the flat.  The girls were playing music rather loudly most of the time.  I had one more good one get off in the reeds.  Pete wanted us to chase some busting fish way away from the juice (in the wrong direction), so against my better judgment, I did that.  It produced nothing, and by the time we got back, it was too late. There really weren't that many busting fish tonight.  We just happened to luck into them tonight.  Pete thought he heard a bullet go by us after a gunshot, so we got out of there.

Lucky, Good, Unlucky, And Good Again

18.75" Bubble Walker

4:00-6:30PM N Side of Don's Bay Juice
Conditions: 69-60 degrees, Mostly Sunny, Light SW wind turning calm, 49 degree water.

I started at West Point and didn't get a thing.  I then headed to the North side of Don's Bay hoping to expand the juice throwing an Spro Aruku Shad.  Had one fish follow, but couldn't see what it was.  As I approached the SW corner of the juice I switched to a Bass Pro Shops Flat Shallow Crankbait.  I was almost immediately rewarded with a 17 incher.

1st fish I ever caught on this color, don't think I'd ever thrown it.

17" BPS Flat Shallow

I had the good sense to throw out a marker buoy.  That was a good move because it took me a little while to get the fish unhooked with the way the lure was wedged in it's mouth and I got blown of the spot.  After releasing the fish I got repositioned thanks to the marker buoy and immediately caught another 17 incher.

17" BPS Flat Shallow

Unfortunately there wasn't a school holding in that spot, just those two fish.  I even got the GPS out and marked a way point after thoroughly working the area.  I then drifted across the flat.  I started throwing the Bubble Walker as a few baitfish were getting hit.  I caught a dink up by shore.

10.5" Bubble Walker

The shoreline continues down on my left.  With a long cast I could have hit it at this point. The fish came out of about a foot of water.   I had a small pike jump over the Walker. 

Some fish got hit out but very close to me so I quickly motored out.  I threw out a cast, reached down to stop the trolling motor and a fish lit the Bubble Walker up.  When I caught up to the fish it was still there , but the sucker was swimming straight at me.  I didn't get much of a hookset and it came off about three quarters of the way in.  It felt like a good fish.  A couple casts later I had a big one jump after the Walker right after it landed.  I set the hook, but it missed the lure.  I cast back a few times, but couldn't get it to strike again.  

Where I was fishing at.  Look familiar?

A baitfish got hit off to my left within casting distance.  I put a cast on the spot, nothing.  I put a second cast on the spot and worked the bait extremely slow letting it sit for more than 30 seconds before popping it again multiple times.  Letting it sit eventually triggered the fish and I landed it, another 17 incher.

17" Bubble Walker

About 10 minutes later I got the 18.75" once again working the lure super slow over a spot where a fish had shown itself to be.  That was my last bite of the night despite the fact that fish boiled within casting range a few times.  The fish stayed active until it was getting to dark for me to see my lure on a long cast.

Perfect November Night to be Out

Got Me A Gooden!

19.5" Hack Jig w/Chigger Craw 

Had a big ole belly

3:00-6:30PM South Side of Big Island, The Intersection in Sullivan
Conditions: 60-53 degrees, Sunny, Calm, water temp 50-48 degrees

I started off fishing yesterday's fish and didn't get a thing on the South side of the Big Island.  I then went into Sullivan.  I stopped at the bridge to look for lures along the East wall.  I then went to the SW corner of the Intersection.  I had fish boil on the Pad Crasher right next to the Cattails.  I thought it got it, but I swung into air.  There were baitfish active in the area.

I had a bass miss the Pad Crasher in the thick blown down reeds.  I let the Pad Crasher sit and it came back and got it.

17.75" Pad Crasher

I started pitching in the reeds and I felt a fish, but set into nothing.  I pitched back and got the big one.

Felt like a 5lber

19.5"

I then went to the East side of the Intersection and got my last fish of the night on a Pure Poison in the cabbage.

16.75"

Only 3 fish, but they were good one's.  I should have gone back to the area the baitfish were.

Moon over Sullivan

Calm Day, Got a Few Even a Topwater Fish in 46 Degrees

17.33" Bubble Walker

2:00-6:30PM South of Big Island, Channel Inn Bay, South of Small Island
Conditions: 58-53 degrees, Calm, Mostly to partly cloudy, 46 degree water temp.

15" Poison w/Craw Fatty b/b on second cast

I went to the South end of the Big Island where something had just boiled.  I got a bass on my second cast.  The new camera went on the fritz for about a minute, but I got it working again.  I started working down the reed line and I got a good pike on the A.T. Jig with Craw Fatty trailer.

All-Terrain A.T. Jig w/Craw Fatty (Junebug/b/b)

28.25"

I got a small pike on the A.T. Jig as I worked my way West in the reeds.  Because of the calm conditions I was also throwing the Bubble Walker.  I threw it out in the right spot and the 17.33" crushed it.  Was a little disappointed it wasn't a bigger fish. I got one more small pike on the Poison.

I then went to the North Point of Channel Inn Bay.  I worked my way around the reeds. I was casting out into the bay when a fish boiled on the Bubble Walker but didn't get it.  Couldn't get it to hit again or did I?  About 5 minutes later I had a good fish boil harder on it, but not get it.  I ended up with my line hung on the rod tip and my line also caught up in the trebles on the Walker.  I moved into the bay to give the hay a try, but then two beavers showed up and started splashing around so I got out of there.

Sun setting over the GOMH

 I went to the South side of the Small Island.  I think I had a good fish bury me in the reeds and I had a small pike miss the A.T. Jig.  Then the light was gone and I was out.  It was such a calm night, just wish the water temps were 5 degrees warmer. I didn't see any baitfish activity.