28 March Bass Fishing report

[BrockLee]

Pomme de Terre - Hermitage State Park Area

Water temp 40-49

Clarity - Clear by the dam/ dingy further up Lindley arm

Matthew Mullins/Brock Schuld

Well today was a good day. We didn't pay to play this weekend and just went out to have some fun and to do a little scouting for later on this year. Matt had never fished Pomme but he was excited and at my house in Warsaw around 9:00am. It was snowing as we pulled out of the drive and we thought, this might be a bad idea. Well that was wrong, the snow let up and the clouds were out when we got to Hermitage. We launched and started fishing at the ever so popular coves by the dam, you know the ones I am talking about with about 9 boats jammed into a 40x40ft section. The tournament guys were throwing Wiggle Warts, jerkbaits and A-rigs, a lot like the past couple weeks. Well we gave it about 20 minutes of throwing some jerks and playing trolling motor chicken and high tailed it down the Lindley Arm. Days like today make the Save Phace mask I bought worth it and my buddies that made fun of it turn green with envy when their eyeballs turn into ice cubes. The water was clear in the first cove and I threw a Megabass Vision 110 in Pro Blue and started working it. Matt threw the same bait in the Luck-E-Strike version. I caught a few within the first hour and Matt had caught one. Megabass - 4, Luck-E-Strike -1. One of those four was a hungry 4lb 6oz pig that still had about a 10 inch crappie in its throat when it bit the Megabass. It couldn’t even swallow it before hammering my lure, what a catch! Matt reacted by absolutely crushing me with a 5lb 8oz pig and three others that were between 3 1/2lb and 4 1/2lb. People were fishing behind us and in front of us all day and picking a few off here and there, but we sat in the same stretch of 300 yards and picked it apart and that's where we picked up 14 of our 15 bass we caught. I got snagged on a rock in the rough water and lost my Vision 110, which was the first time that has happened and I am starting to think the RC STX is looking pretty good after that. That was the only one I had, so fishing was pretty much over for me, I threw some various other colors but didn't have confidence in them, therefore I didn't catch fish. About the middle of the afternoon the sun made it’s way out of the clouds and the skies turned blue. It was really hard to catch fish after that. Matt however did catch a tasty 17 inch Walleye which I might have ate for dinner, on his jerkbait. After the sun was out we fished a little more headed back towards the put in off the main lake and I pulled one more fish out. Then we called it quits. We had 15 fish and only 3 didn't measure. We measured our bigger fish and we would have had around 20-21 lbs for our best five. Which for us, is absolutely incredible. Jerkbaits right now guys, blue ones. We didn’t fish any Wiggle Warts or A-rigs so I don’t know about them but I know they have been filling up the boat too.

The picture with the crappie tail just doesn't do it justice. And Matt's fish was a big dude..

[gatorbitu]

Awesome! Very nice fish.

[Conman64]

Great job! Thanks for the report.

[rondo]

Nice fish! Pomme sure is a great fishin' hole. Wanted to get out today but worked in the garden instead.

[Ketchup]

Good catches. Instarted to go there today, but went back to Stockton instead. Now wishin i would have went.

[Jbrant]

Great Report!

[DChance]

great report. thanks. now just need GPS coordinates!! lol

[Rogersvillefisherman]

Good report. Thank you.

[redbirdsfan44]

That's an awesome catch. Looks like he was barely hooked