Great Lakes Bass Fishing Forum

I returned once again to the little rented boat at Lower Crooked Lake for another bass fishing adventure on April 30th hoping to find some more big girls, and bigger boys too as I'm an equal opportunity bass angler!

I can tell you this, both Crooked Lakes have had a big Northern Pike hatch because I'm catching a bunch of them every time I go on everything I throw like this little fart here I caught 1st thing in the morning:
(http://glb.glwimg.com/images/dink-pike20160430_093720_HDR.jpg)

A little while later I got another solid bass on the HOT Kustom Kicker Jigs Deposit Spin Titanium Revolution spinnerbait in bream that I've been throwing a lot this spring!
(http://glb.glwimg.com/images/nice-bass-on-dstr-spinnerbait20160430_103930_HDR.jpg)

The part the pictures won't tell is I had a mini-hawg on the same spinnerbait only minutes earlier. I fought about a 4-pounder to the boat from under some brush and weed roots it blew out from. I had it to the boat so I went for the camera phone. The solid bass had a burst of energy diving under the little row boat and coming off the Deposit Spin spinnerbait so I lost that picture opportunity! Oh well. There's always the next bass. Above.

(http://glb.glwimg.com/images/2nd-keeper-deposit-spin-bass20160430_110506_HDR.jpg)
Then a short time later this small keeper cruising the shoreline blasted the Deposit Spin Titanium Revolution!

After this bass I was tossing the DSTR spinnerbait (I call it 'the studfinder' ;D) over some floating bog roots and I got slammed again. This time it was another bigger bass but I lost the bass after never getting the hook into it. I went over after a bunch of different casts with different lures to find a very nice bass sitting on a bed on the edge of some red lily pads. I never went back to try to catch that bass again. I enjoy looking for new targets and learning more all the time as much as catching bass!

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Sometimes I get excited and hurry too much trying to get a quick picture of the bass before I let it go, and I blow the picture like I did this one! A fat bass heading towards a mini-hawg in another year or two that slammed the same Deposit Spin Titanium Revolution spinnerbait near some pad roots. I was concentrating on the hurry and forgot to smile too, I know.

I should clarify that I just like to catch FISH period because when I see other opportunities I often take advantage of them. The crappie were spawning or at least hanging around pad roots too so I would often toss in an old  style slip bobber and Power Maggot when I was promising shadows in lily pad and bog roots.

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I caught this nice Pumpkinseed from one of those places expecting a crappie instead but it put up a nice fight on ultra light of my Whip'R Rod I use for panfish.

It started to rain and it just kept on drizzling and raining from that point on but I didn't mind too much because the bigger bass started to bite then too!

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I felt better about the rain when this big spawned out hawg slammed my Deposit Spin Titanium Revolution spinnerbait!

(http://glb.glwimg.com/images/hawg-bass-on-dstr-spinnerbait20160430_145429.jpg)
My mood picked up quite a bit despite the rain when this mini-hawg also slammed to Deposit Spin studfinder spinnerbait a short time later!