Friday 8/12

[Revtro]

In my continuing quest to thumb my nose at Canada and find good fish in US water, we ended up having a great day today.  We rocked 'em good.  Tried a new main lake area and a new river wreck that I knew about but never fished.  Both of these areas produced very well.  The first area was near the shipping channel out in the middle of the dang lake.  All of our fish today came in 21 FOW or more.  The first area wasn't all that weedy but had lots of rock.  The action was steady from the outset here.  I pulled up on the area, threw out a tube and on the first cast got a 3 lber.  Over the next hour, I got 10 more that looked just like her.  I switched to a deep crank and got a few decent fish on it as well.  My partner dropshotted and never got bit.  He switched to a tube and BANG, nice smallie.  The smallmouth actually weren't the highlight.  This is gonna sound crazy, but I caught an 9+ sheephead and he put up an amazing fight.  For a minute I thought it was the smallie of my life.  But actually I wasn't all that disappointed.  It was a big fish and put up a good fight.  I know a lot of guys turn up their nose at sheeps, but I wasn't in a tourney, so a good fight is a good fight.  Lots of fun.

By 9 we headed up the channels.  We pulled up on a wreck I was vaguely familiar with and decided to give it a go for the heck of it.  We were plenty satisfied with our outing thus far, so I wasn't all that concerned if we caught any here or not.  So we fished the wreck which is pretty shallow and didn't get much.  Then I chose to make a drift down the dropoff and when I hit about 25 FOW I got a nice healthy 2.5.  It wasn't a giant, but a good keeper.  That was enough to make us stay a while and over the next hour and half we boated another dozen smallmouth, all of them keepers with the best probably going 3 lbs.

Had we stayed we'd have kept catching them in both areas.  Both areas had good schools going and a 3 lb average isn't bad for a day of fun fishing.  The 4s and 5s still elude me at the moment, but I'll take a day like this anytime.  We ended up our day at noon with 25 or so smallmouth, only 2 of which didn't measure.  Not too shabby for 6 hours.  It was a great day for this time of year. 

[Firefighter Jeff]

  Looks like fun to me !!!!!!  Nice job  !!!!!

[bigjc]

Better than a sharp stick in the eye...and all under the "Stars and Bars," gotta love it.  If if weren't for fishin tourneys I would not by canadian either.  Although sonethimes in the spring, the river walleye bite is better on the canadian side.