Fishing 6-10-2012

[Jason Essary]

Very nice! Have that happen in ontario alot with northerns eating small walleye. Have even got one to the net with no hooks in him. Weighed 20lbs.

Maybe I should start throwing some perch colored cranks?

[Bill Babler]

Hit the dam area at 5:30 this morning and started out with the 7" Storm Swimmer and the DD22 off a major flat runnout. Immediatly locked on to a very good fish on the Swimmer. Boat was 30' and she hit it half way to the bottom on a very long cast. I will tell you this. I was throwing from 30' out toward the main lake so as not to throw in front of my client Dave. I'm guessing she hit it at about 20 ft. over 40 or 50 ft. Immediatly i knew she was a toad. Could not pull her one little bit on the big Falcon Flippin Stick. Here is where it gets a little messy. Last night when I was knotting the Big Bait I did not have enough line to tie my usual palamar so I tied a very short line imporved clench. As she passed the boat at full steam the knot came loose. I screwed that up big time. The line was pigtailed on the end, so I knew immediatly what had happened. Never get in a hurry. I would have had to retie the whole deal last night and was to lazy. It cost me a toad strangler. Might have been a big cat, but if it was, it was suspended. Got to believe it was a Hog Mama Bass. This is a modified A-Rig,. with two baits and is a bugger to tie. Should have bit the bullet and did it right.

Nothing on the DD, but we did catch 3 nice keeps on the Swimmer, and I had a double on Jaw's to the boat and was going to swing them and the smaller one fell off. Did not count it. Memo to self; Don't try and swing 6 pounds of Small Jaw.

Kind of reminds me of a deal with Beck. We were fishing a derby and had already put two over 7 and 1 over 6 in the boat. I had another one on the leash and was getting ready to swing it and Beck screamed at me. What are you doing? Stop right there and let that fish swim till I get there with the net. Don't try and Swing that 5 pounder. KInd of a brain fart on my part, but after seeing the 7's and 6, I thought the 5 was a young one.

Me bad.

Do you get the feeling I was not on my A game this morning?

Not a huge day for us at the dam. Ended up with 18 fish but now that I recount 6 keepers. Had two very nice LM on a jig at about 3.5 each. Dave caught the 1st. one and I backed him up on the next cast. Had to hit lots of locations, only a fish on most spots and lots of spots with none.

Could not get a depth all day and don't know why. Would have seemed to be perfect, but I learn something everyday.

[vacation]

Bill, is your storm swimmer a "paddle tail" type or more of a thin fish with trebles? I am using 3" storm paddle type and doing ok with it fyi

[Bill Babler]

Big Paddle tail. No treble hooks. I have some Storm Perch Swimbaits. May try the after what I have been reading.

[Jason Essary]

Bill, modified Arig? what in the world you tieing on there with two of them? Thanks for all the info. Hope that big mama can throw that swimmer so she can eat better.

[bjovan]

The gills have been located just as you said Bill, flat points 18-22 ft across from the cows. Now if I can relocate the bass in the am all will be well. Tough morning for me, got a late start caugh a couple on top busting shad. Nada on the fb jig, caught some on deep docks w jiggin spoon first for me lots to learn on the rock in the summer

[Bill Babler]

Most all the guides are really working hard for their clients right now. Especially in the dam area. It is a very tough bite and the biet you get may be small. There has been some topwater fish up early in some of the big coves, but it does not last long and then it gets really tricky.

Mostly over by 8 AM. No White bite yet at the dam but hopeful.

[Hunter91]

Fished the Baxter area yesterday morning early. Caught a few chasers early but found some whites and as Bill had said they ate up the spoon. Had a lot of fun. Also caught several short fish on dropshot after sun got up. Probably not fishing deep enough these were only in 18-25. It seemed like there were a ton of fishermen on the water yesterday early for a Thursday morning.

[FLYFISHINMAN]

What is considered a "runout"?

[rogerdodger]

Once the spring bite is over it's the nites for me. 3/4 oz black spinnerbait and a bag of salt craws or chompers is all I need. Its cool, uncrowded and there's almost always a bite going to happen. Just learn a little topography first, the lakes starting to get lower and some of those points go waaaay out there.............