Went fishing with my buddy Mike today, Mike hasn't fished with me in a while as both he and his wife came down with bronchitis and it took them a couple of weeks to get over it. I had told Mike that the fishing has been pretty good, so he was ready to go.
We launched about 7:15, it was cloudy, cold and windy. Fishing was tough the first couple of hours, we had maybe 3-4 small bass. Mike was saying things like "cold front has shut them down". "Wind out of the East, fish bite the least". I kept telling him to hang in there, we should get some, but I was getting a bit discouraged myself.
Finally we starting getting fish, I don't know if it was just finding the right location, or they just started biting, but we started to get some consistent bites. We ended up with somewhere north of 20 bass, not much size, mostly 12-14" spotted bass, but one nice 2.5 lb. meanmouth, a couple of 15-16" largemouth, and one smallie that would've gone 16" or so. Mostly Ned rig fish with a couple on the jig. Also got a nice walleye, didn't measure it but it was an obvious keeper, probably 21-22".
I did get a couple of surprise stripers on the Ned, first stripers on the Ned for me. Lucky to get both of them in the boat, got them in the trees and with 6 lb. test there isn't a lot you can do with them. I just followed them around with the boat and let them pull drag when they wanted, and when they stopped, put some pressure on them. Eventually they tire out and are easy to net at that point. Mike took them home.
Missed one good spotted bass, got it right to the boat and it then jumped and tossed the hook. For a Beaver spotted bass it was a good one, at least 3 lbs., maybe a bit more.
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