Great Lakes Bass Fishing Forum

I had to return to Round Lake one more time before I left Saturday morning for the MUCC Convention on Friday morning, June 17, 2016.

I started out fishing my weedy point I usually start on. I started out with the shallow crankbait again because it has been working real good. Little did I know that I was going to have one of my best big bass bites ever on Round this day!

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I caught a dink on the crankbait fairly soon after starting. Then things slowed down for me on fast baits.

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I managed one small keeper on the crankbait about an hour later (not counting dinks and small pike with the occasional dogfish too) but things were definitely different so I switched to the slow presentation early and started fishing off the drop offs more. (Yeah, that's me squinting into the Sun trying to see the screen.)

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It took about an hour or so but it paid off with a solid, quality largemouth bass off the break on the Bullet Craw - black and blue again! Mostly fishing the drops now and concentrating around visible schools of small panfish feeding along the top I picked up another solid chunker keeper bass on the Bullet Craw. I would catch a nice one and maybe 1-3 smaller ones and a pike or two before moving along to find another bass.

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I was fishing off the end of a point when I hit the Motherload! I had to go out a little deeper around a small boat that was anchored and fishing panfish. They were catching them pretty good too. I tossed up hooked a big bass almost 4 pounds. I lost it on the jump but that was the big clue. I fished a little longer after throwing out my own anchor since I was in deep, open water now and didn't want to lose the exact spot. I hooked this bass over 4 pounds on the black and blue Bullet Craw with a 3/8 oz Tungsten bullet sinker. I was in 11 to 12 feet of water, maybe as deep as 13 in some of the casts. Got the panfish anglers excited. They thought I had a 6 pounder! :)

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On the very next cast about to the same spot I got thumped hard again on my Bullet Craw. Set the hook and this time it was a big Hawg over 5 pounds! The bass jumped 2 awesome jumps on the way to the boat while I'm trying to keep it down and get it in. Sealed the deal for me. I decided to see what I could do with this spot by staying there.

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A few minutes later I got tapped again and caught another nice keeper deep on the Bullet Craw from the same anchored position. I think bass were roaming outside of a deep milfoil bed because I was not getting snagged and was getting bit casting around almost 3 sides of the boat!

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The bite slowed so I switched in almost dead calm conditions to a 1/8 oz bullet sinker with  the old Green Pumpkin Power Worm and quickly caught another nice keeper bass practically from under the boat!

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I caught several more nice keepers like this one and the next one by switching to the lighter weight and worm fishing it with a slow drag and small hop presentation!

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Another deep worm keeper. I also caught several dinks and a couple pike before the pike really moved in and messed up the bite!

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Things went down hill when the pike started biting more. I got bit off twice and caught several bigger hammer handles to small keeper pike that start hammering my worm and Bullet Craw.

I thought I had them figured out now! But in future trips the same tactic works more on dinks and pike than big bass but what a day this day was for fishing a small 80 acre lake without a lot to it!