Lake Ovid, Sunday 11/5/06 PM

[djkimmel]

Finally, got to go out and enjoy this gorgeous day for about 3 hours this afternoon. Felt like I'd rather do some lowland reservoir fishing rather than river-run, so I went up to Ovid.

NOBODY on the whole lake but me! A chilly light breeze, but really nice. Water only 42 - 43 F though. Much chillier.

I tried some different deep and shallow stuff trying to figure out a potential pattern quick as possible. Nothing from one of the really good channel log piles on crankbaits or a Carolina rig. Nothing from a couple points. Nothing from the shallow upper end near the bridge. It looked decent and I tried slow rolling spinnerbaits and chatterbaits, along with flipping a jig.

Fished a couple sun-beaten shores. Nothing. Next up, looking at shallow wood that has been facing the sun most of the day. Before I go farther, I must say I forgot my cell phone and my camera so you know what that means...

Also, you figure at this time of year, if you get one, it's a good one. And I did... off the 3rd or 4th piece of shallow wood, I was 'slow-rolling' a black/blue chatterbait when it 'got heavy.'

Nice bulldogging fight all around the boat just like on Bassmasters. A HOG pushing 5 pounds with shoulders, a big head and fat bulges around its tail from the beefing up for the winter it must be doing. Nice! Now the day is definitely worth it.

I tried the rest of that pocket (actually I tried several other lures back at different angles in the same general area of the bass too) with no more bass. I think I had one nipping at a swimming jig because it go 'grabbed' twice with the 2nd time way out from the thicker weeds and I could not see any weed tops at all where the last 'incident' occurred.

I got excited and went to some more shallow stumps, but never got another definite bite on the shallow wood. I had enough time as the sun was dipping below the horizon to hit some deeper wood on a major point that ends near the river channel with no bites for sure -- you know this time of year, it gets hard to tell.

I fished back to the ramp along some shallow weed lines as the full moon rose over the tops of the trees on the opposite side of the lake.

Only 1 bass today for 3 hours of effort, but what a beauty!!! I thought about how I might get a picture, but no one was even around the boat ramp when I came in, so... no picture, but the toad momma lives on in my memory...