Big M 5/18 and 5/19

[bferg]

My brother and I fished Big M Friday and this morning.  In spite of “terrible” weather (bright and sunny, zero wind) we absolutely crushed it in terms of numbers- including about 20 minutes of the most epic top water frenzy I have ever fished .  But the bigger fish eluded us.  

Friday we were on the water at 06:00.  Dense fog-  I was in the boat while my brother backed me down the ramp.  The first topwater fish of the trip was in the boat before my brother got back to the courtesy dock.  Proceeded to fish a mix of top water and swim baits until the fog burnt off and the sun was high.  Trash fished for a while but kept catching fish (including a very nice keeper eye on a tube jig at 2:00 in the afternoon).  Finally put together a really fun pattern of throwing flukes into main lake buck brush.  Caught fish all during the day that way.  Knew we probably wouldn’t catch big fish that way but it was just a lot of fun.  About 4:00 we headed back towards Viney and all hell broke lose. We picked up some swim bait fish (including 3 walleyes) then at about 5:00 the surface activity got insane.  We caught fish after fish- mix of smallies and spots- in one 20 minute stretch it became the most aggressive topwater feed I have ever seen. We had multiple timesp we both caught fish and it topped off with a double.  Stayed at Viney ripping from 5:00 to about 8:00 when the bite died off.  Final tally for Friday:  69 fish, including 5 eyes, a bunch of smallies, some fat spots.  It was a blast.  

 

This morning we posted up at Viney at 5:30.  Lots of surface activity but much more weary fish.  We still managed to catch a few- a mix of whites, smallies, and spots.  Managed a few other top water fish running up the lake.  Sun was out, wind was nowhere to be found and we finished the morning catching a few thrown jigs on bluff ends.  

Nothing to brag about in terms of size but we came home with sore thumbs and that’s pretty awesome.

 

As always- thanks to everyone who posts detailed reports and techniques here- it helps those of us who don’t get out as frequently get to the lake with some idea of what is going on and how to find fish.  I love this forum.

 

This post has been promoted to an article

[Quillback]

Thanks for the report, I haven't been over there to Big M in a couple of weeks, the fishing in Beaver has been good enough that I haven't been motivated to put in the extra wind shield time it takes to get to TR.  But, if the top water bite has started I'll have to get over there.

[vernon]

Outstanding!

Gonna try and put some of that info to use today!

[Guest]

heck of a day of catching!

bo