Another "unknown" lake in northern indiana

[TCook]

I met up with my south bend buddies to fish an "unknown lake" by them that has been good to us in the past. Today lake X did not disappoint. We fished from 8-3 and got about 30 between 3 of us and a bonus 7lb eye. Most of them went between 2 1/2 to 3 1/2 pounds but we put 5 good ones in the boat today. Our best 5 were all between 4 3/4 to 5 1/4. I know how everyone talks about the one that got away but this time my buddy Jason had a real tough break. He had an absolute trophy smallmouth especially for an inland lake that we estimate between 6 1/2-7 pounds pull free close to the boat. It was gigantic! That fish would of gave us a 27 pound limit for the day, guess we will just have to be happy with 25 pounds.

[customfishn]

All these great "secret" Indiana lakes!  This sucks not knowing where they are.  Great job.

[Firefighter Jeff]

  Nice job Tim.  Looks like I recognize Jason, who else did you fish with???  I've caught a few decent fish this season, but not as well as you have. 
  Hey, I thought you worked weekends???  Did you take a "sick" day?  lolol  Hey I can't go real early, but wanna turn me on to some fish this next Thursday??

[TCook]

We might be able to work something out Jeff, Ill give you a call early next week.

[djkimmel]

Where are you going to take him FF?!?

[Firefighter Jeff]

Where are you going to take him FF?!?

  He'll prolly want to blindfold me and then ask to drive.  lolol

[bassbmx]

All these great "secret" Indiana lakes!  This sucks not knowing where they are.  Great job.

I feel your pain! I gotta go looking for some of these secret lakes sometime.

[TCook]

Me and Jeff ended up fishing the same lake thursday and the fish we were on last week didnt pan out. Jeff ended up getting a 3 pound smallie along with some smaller LM and missed a few good fish in that area. So we went to plan B which was the warmer backwater, first two stops were 4 degrees warmer and I popped a couple 4s and a handful of 2-3 pounders. The last area we fished was 8 degrees warmer and they were bedding everywhere. We probably caught 25-30 back there most in the 3 pound range and Jeff got two 4s and missed two 4s.  Not a monster day but was really a cool deal bed fishing on April 5th in our area and still ended up with 19-20 pounds.

[bassfan586]

Nice fish jeff. Only a few more weeks here

[Firefighter Jeff]

  Thanks for cropping the pics of me Tim !!  lololol  Told him he needed to work on that.  The pics I took were non-cropped.        Not bad pics for a 3G camera phone. 

[djkimmel]

Great job guys! Thanks for the report and pictures!