Lake Lansing for a few hours 4-26-2016

[djkimmel]

Despite the NE strong, cold wind and the threat of some rain, Derek said meet me at Lake Lansing in the morning and we'll try to catch some bass so I met him there. I had an appointment at 2pm so I could only fish until about 1pm but that's better than nothing.

Though the weather had me at times wondering what I was doing outside in the teeth of that chilly, wet-air wind! But despite a huge cold front and supposedly bad conditions for spring bass fishing I popped a decent keeper on one of my first casts with, you guessed it, the Kustom Kicker Jigs Deposit Spin Titanium Revolution!



A good start I call that. I felt a little tick on my line. Set the hook and had a decent bass on. A little while later I just missed another pike (on purpose). But we weren't catching them on this sand bar weed edge to we headed to another point and weedy drop.

Derek switched to a Nemesis Baits Bullet Craw (pigslayer) on a jighead and started catching lots of little bass. I tried a blade bait and could work it fairly well through most of the weeds, but no bites.

So I switched to a 1/4 oz Texas-rigged black-blue Bullet Craw. Only a few casts into the change I felt weight on my line, set the hook and had a nice solid keeper on. Only about 5 minutes later I felt which would make you think a bluegill had the tail of my Bullet Craw. I set the hook and landed another solid keeper!



I really like Bullet Craws... Derek caught a few more but the bite slowed again so we decided to hit another weedy point. On the downwind side we started getting spinnerbait baits from mostly bass and a couple pike. I caught a couple more on the Deposit Spin Titanium Revolution and Derek caught a few on a War Eagle Pro spinnerbait in a new color.

Then it was time for me to go. Derek says he caught a couple more keepers and lost a really nice bass at the boat after I left on spinnerbaits.

Notable on the day was it was a waterfowl day for sure with the wind, clouds and wet air. We saw 2 FLOCKS of cormorants, something we've never seen before on Lake Lansing, and quite a few diver ducks. We couldn't see well enough or get close enough to some of them to tell what they were but they were diving son of a guns! We did see a number of Buffleheads in small groups. I've seen more Buffleheads this year than I ever remember seeing in a spring before. So far I've seen them on every single lake I've been on which is also odd compared to past years.