May 1, Lower End

[Quillback]

Launched at 0600 and fished most of the morning, left at 1030.  

The 2.8 Keitech was my best bait, fish were a bit off the bank, most were in 10 FOW.  Also caught a couple on the ned, a couple on a 3/16 oz jig, and a couple on top.

There was some top water activity to include stripers early.  Did not connect with any stripers but caught a spot and a smallie out there over 75 FOW.  Wind got up a bit and that sent the fish down.

I have started using plastic grippers to hold fish that I catch on lures that have multiple sets of trebles, I'm tired of getting stuck and with old age comes a certain loss of reaction time - in other words I ain't as fast as I used to be.

Biggest smallie was 18".  Spawned out fish, fought like an old shoe.  All the 14 inchers I caught today fought much harder than that fish.

I caught 21 total, 4 were bigger than 15".

Did not see any MLF boats.

WT 67

 

[snagged in outlet 3]

Nice!    I use 9” needle nose pliers and a net.   Nothing worse than treble hooks when you’re fishing alone.