Thanks Muskyon!
More pics of late: This past Saturday...some smallie fishin', my buddy Howard and I put together a trip. Here are a few pictures of a great day on the water.
The river was in much better shape than I expected, and also was pretty peaceful.
Howard caught the first bass of the day, and set the stage…unfortunately, I lost my first opportunity, a big smallie that taught me why she got that big...ptooey!
A 4" plastic worm brought both Howard and I some nice bronze to the boat:
Howard decided to take it easy and let the boat drift do the work, his "Lake Erie Drift Method":
And it worked!
And right after that, a plastic worm double, twin 16”ers (I measured mine, but we compared them and they were the same size, literally caught in the same hole):
A better look at Howard’s fish:
Switched to a buzzbait in the late afternoon after the winds changed. There were plenty of 12 inchers on the buzzer, but quite a few like this to make me giggle like a kid again:
My hot lure was a ¼ oz. buzzbait with ¾ of a Zoom Dead Ringer with a dyed chartreuse tail as a trailer. It was the hot bait at the creek that we fished last week for me, and proved worthy this past Saturday as well. This smaller bronzeback is modeling his new accessory for you.
Another buzzbait fish that exploded on my lure:
I wound up catching several nice bass on the buzzer, and toward the end, after catching 18 smallies on the buzzer, all I needed was one more fish to hit 50, and boy did she hit. She exploded on my buzzbait and took me around the front of the boat to the other side as I avoided letting the line get fouled on the trolling motor, and after a few runs, she came boatside. I unhooked her, got Howard to photograph her for me, and then I measured and released her. She went 19 inches on the nose, my biggest of the day. Looking back, the one that I lost fought harder, so that fish was at least that size.
On the day, I finished with 49 smallies (19 on a buzzbait) and a largemouth caught on the buzzer early for a total of 50 bass, and 17 big redbreast sunfish (2 on a buzzbait). Howard didn’t have quite as many as me early, but also finished strong with the buzzbait.
Wow, what a day. I couldn’t resist taking this picture prior to our departure. Now I can’t wait to go back.