Who's fishing the Bash?

[Seth]

backside of a dock on a white spinnerbait in 4' of water in a cove. i was surprised as well

[Old plug]

I imagine there is one competitor running around with some damage on his bass boat. I was down fooling with my boat in the dock and I seen these two. Guy fishing between mine and the dock next door a distance of about 25ft. There was a large wake rolling though. For some reason they just did not react to it . I turned my back and that wake thru that boat into the Corner  of my dock o hard it liked to knocked me off my feet. I did not see the damage to his boat .I was busy on the floor of mine working on something. They left before I could get a look. 

[Hook Dupp]

We didn't fish the bash, but did end up finding fish on main lake points today. Fished the windy side using crank baits. I don't  have a depth finder, but the fish seemed to be in the edges of the deep water.  #5 flickers worked well. Wind Sat seemed to be harder than the 9 mph they had predicted. 

[fishinwrench]

Looks like the 6.88 held out.  Congrats to the winner ! 

We went out from Mallard bay and fished from 1pm until dark and landed 5 that totalled a whoppin' 11.0    Repetitive casts with a buzzbait seemed to do the job.   One particular spot took about 14 identical casts to get the bite, so after that every stickup required 20 shots before we could give up on it.    Lost the same 3+ (TWICE) that would have put us right at 15#, and another better than average fish hit the blades on a Spinnerbait but didn't get stuck, so we had the potential to rack up 17#.  

Since we weren't registered in the bash we were both glad we didn't stick a hog.  

[conorsixtakc]

Can't imagine what missing second place by .01 lbs feels like. One hundredth of a pound making $10,000 difference...

[Seth]

I learned a few things after fishing up there this weekend. I'm terrible at skipping with a bait caster when there is chop on the water and dock cables are the debil! Trying to fish around those things and not being able to skip worth a darn is frustrating to say the last, but I knew that where's the fish were so I put up with it. Seems the bash is won every year by somebody fishing a jig behind a dock.

Anybody else on here very good at skipping with casting gear?

[Blazerman]

I missed my chance. At 2:30 on Saturday i was slow rolling my spinnerbait in front of a dock that was getting hammered by the wind. it was down about 5 feet and a big bass slammed it and almost yanked the rod out of my hand. i was really not prepared and should of been gripping the reel tighter so i missed a good hookset and the fish shot straight to the surface and came flying out of the water, shook it's head and threw the spinnerbait. It was right in front of me and from the size of it's open mouth and belly i know it was well over 5. 

I weighed one that was close to 3lb but ended up 2.91 and i had a 2 other smaller keepers and a couple shorts on Saturday. Sunday was definitely tougher and i only managed 2 bass total, a small keeper and a short. I did catch and clean a nice size walleye on my spinnerbait Saturday.

 

[Seth]

That's a bummer Blazerman! We did catch a limit of keepers on Saturday that would weight around 12 pounds. Most of those were caught within the first two hours of daylight. Our numbers were similar yesterday, but only one was a keeper. I'd say we caught 10-15 fish each day. My partner caught a nice walleye on a spinnerbait yesterday morning and I caught a flathead later in the day on a jig. I'm going to thoroughly enjoy my $175 fried flathead dinner! 

[Blazerman]

Yeah Seth guess i got a $175 walleye dinner. I am terrible at skipping with a baitcaster as well and brought a heavy spinning rod just for that purpose. But didn't end up using it much with the wind blowing the way it was.

[Seth]

I think I could probably skip a 1/4 or 5/16oz jig easier, but it was too windy to effectively use something that light. I'll definitely be getting some practice in with skipping on the rivers using the lighter jigs. The bait I was trying to skip was a full size brush hog with a 3/8oz bullet weight pegged in place. Every know and then I would get the angle just right and it would skip across the water just like it does when the pro's do it. The next attempt would be equivalent to throwing a rock straight down in to the water with a nice backlash to follow.