June 21, Big M

[Quillback]

Started fishing about 0530 this morning, air temp was 62, man did that feel good.  By 0900 it was baking like the Sahara.  WT was at 85 when I launched, 86 at the end of the morning.

A fairly good bite early, no size, some near keepers but did not get a keeper until about 0900.  C-rigging a Zoom Speed Craw worked early, got a few top water bites, but only one in the boat.  Caught some shaky head fish on a Finesse Worm, and a couple of more dragging a 3.8 Keitech on the bottom.  My one and only keeper came on the Keitech.

Caught 18 total.

Most of the fish were in 5-15 FOW.  

Not a whole lot of rec boats out there today.  I left at 1100, so it may have gotten worse, but it wasn't too bad.

[cheesemaster]

3 minutes ago, Quillback said:

Started fishing about 0530 this morning, air temp was 62, man did that feel good.  By 0900 it was baking like the Sahara.  WT was at 85 when I launched, 86 at the end of the morning.

A fairly good bite early, no size, some near keepers but did not get a keeper until about 0900.  C-rigging a Zoom Speed Craw worked early, got a few top water bites, but only one in the boat.  Caught some shaky head fish on a Finesse Worm, and a couple of more dragging a 3.8 Keitech on the bottom.  My one and only keeper came on the Keitech.

Caught 18 total.

Most of the fish were in 5-15 FOW.  

Not a whole lot of rec boats out there today.  I left at 1100, so it may have gotten worse, but it wasn't too bad.

18 total is a fun day on the water!! Congratulations!!

Thats a heck of a smallmouth- I bet he was a fun fight!!

[Quillback]

Just now, cheesemaster said:

18 total is a fun day on the water!! Congratulations!!

Thats a heck of a smallmouth- I bet he was a fun fight!!

It jumped twice, probably got 3 feet of air on both jumps.  

[rps]

Just one keeper, huh? You do realize many people have never caught a 19 inch sm?