Great Lakes Bass Fishing Forum

I was fortunate to be able to take an old friend out Saturday that I'e been wanting to take out for a long time.  So as you can imagine, I was really hoping it wouldn't be a slow day.  I wasn't disappointed.  We got out at 6:30 and hit a main lake area that's been pretty steady the past few weeks and on the first cast landed a 3 pounder.  Not a bad start.  For the next hour we got consistent 3s and at least two that went over 4.  We hit a couple other areas and found smaller fish, so we decided to head up into the channels to see what's going on up there.  We found an area up there that was on fire as far as numbers go.  We got fish on nearly every cast!  That was awesome.  But as far as size goes, it seemed like 3lbers were the norm.  We got a couple 4s up there too but it seems like you gotta have some special mojo out there to find the elusive 5lbers.  What's up with that?  It looks like my experience was about the same as Bassfan586's.  All in all, we got about 30-35, most of them good keepers with some decent 4s mixed in. 

I don't know about you, but the summer bite seems better this year than in the past couple of years.  It's been great out there. 

Considering I was happy to catch four keepers on 4 hours of fishing the Huron River on Saturday, 30-35 in the 3-4 pound range sounds fantastic.  Getting a little greedy, aren't you?

All kidding aside, what were you catching them on, in what depth?

Yes we are rather spoiled over here. :D.  For the most part it was tubes.  Cranks weren't really producing.  We needed to keep it slow.  We did manage a few Dropshot fish as well with 2.5" tubes.  Main lake was 16FOW and channels were 26'.  The trick was to get the bait down quick and keep the presentation slow.  I did manage a few on a modified Carolina rig as well.  But the bite was harder to detect.