Big M area, November 17

[Quillback]

Another warm November day, when I hit the road in the afternoon it was 72 degrees.

If you like to fish in the dirt, you can take a left out of Big M, head down lake a few miles and you've got brown water.  Stay around Big M or head upriver and it is relatively clear.

The fish are biting if you can find them.  I caught a few spots in the Big M cove on a top water before I launched the boat.  Once in the water, found a good-sized school of spots on some flats, caught some there on small swimbaits, Ned rig, and jig.  Called some friends of mine that were on the water, they came over and caught close to 50 of them on spoons and jigs.  All spots with a few keepers mixed in.

I had some fun with that school but wanted to try some other places to see if they were holding fish.  Found a few here and there on the crank bait and finesse jigs.  Caught my best bass of the day, a 3 lb. LM, on the crank bait.

One of those days where I got a lot of bites but had trouble hooking them or keeping them on once hooked.  Can't explain it, it wasn't like they were hard bites to detect but just could not turn them into fish in the boat.  I bet I missed 20-30 bites.

Had fish chase baits back to the boat, had one that came out of the water after a ned right as I lifted it out of the water.  caught it out of the corner of my eye, so didn't get a good look, but it was a smallmouth, crazy fish they are at times.

One of the crank bait fish had 3 of his buddies follow him to the boat, had that happen a few times when fishing the spotted bass school.

Fun day, lots of action, put 22 with 4 keepers in the boat, but should've boated more.

WT 63-64

[Dutch]

Maybe it will be the same on my end tomorrow unless you want me to bring the boat over there.