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1st Round Lake bass fishing trip of 2017 5-25

Started by djkimmel, June 13, 2017, 02:07:49 PM

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I can tell already that 2017 is going to be an interesting and challenging year for bass fishing at some venues. The one that is already surprising me a lot is little Round Lake (north of Lansing). I hit for the first time on May 25th. I was greeted by a LOT of weeds!!

Lots of crinkly cabbage with a little bit of browner cabbage mixed in. Lots of weird grasses shallow and thick, big patches of green milfoil all over the lake! My concern immediately was there is a lot of cover right now for not a huge bass population to hide in!! Where to start?!?

I always say when in doubt start on the points! That's what I did. A shoreline broad, flat point with a defined weed edge and some weeds trailing out a short way into relatively deeper water. I started fishing fast in the morning - throwing a green gizzard shad KVD 2.5 (hoping the bigger size would get down into the weeds a little more and maybe grab some bigger bass). What I grabbed though at first was a bunch of pike!!!!

This seems to be the year of the pike already. I had 5 pike on in the first 15 minutes!!! They would slam the square bill on the pause, or when it popped free of a strand of weeds. I even had one come up out of deeper water to slam the shallow crankbait!! This was going to get old fast...


My 4th bite was a small bass that came off quickly. Then in about the same spot where I saw some minnows skipping I hooked this small bass - my first tiny bass of 2017 on Round Lake. Well... it's a start...


After getting slammed by a few more pike, I decided to switch tactics from the pike-loved square bill to the chartreuse-white Deposit Spin. Pike bites slowed way down (victory!) and the bass on the shallow flats still seemed to want to bite it! I caught this slightly bigger bass next.


I moved to some better looking weeds and caught a better-sized bass on the Deposit Spin spinnerbait again. An aggressive bite so that was a good sign. But I wasn't finding any nice bass yet.


I moved to the one really big point and tossing off the side of it out near the tip I finally caught a solid bass casting a Texas-rigged large size Nemesis Baits Bullet Craw in the watermelon gold-flake color!

But that was the only good bite I got going around the whole point. I stuck to mid-depth flats and near outside and inside weed edges near the drops for the time I had left. I caught a few more pike and small bass, and that was it. Not quite the day I would expect for me and Round Lake but it's a new year, and that means figuring them out THIS year, not by what worked in the past. I didn't do it today but I had a feeling going into the weeds might be in my near future though usually near the end of May the property owners BOMB the weeds and the lake becomes a sparsely weeded, brown, sickly-weeded dark water hole the rest of the season (usually).

Help stop invasive spcies. Don't move fish between unconnected bodies of water. Clean, drain and dry your boat before launching on another water body.
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