Upper Saranac, NY

[Bender]

The bite has been very slow recently but the weather has finally stabilized with lows in the 10s-20s and highs in the upper 30s-low 40s. Water temp has settled around 50 and been there for a week. The weather was chilly and windy today, but a beautiful fall day so I had to head out to the lake this afternoon. I got on the water just after 3 and fished until almost 6, the best few hours I've had all year. I went to a very wind blown main lake point that I have never fished before and started working the jerkbait and the bass were all over it. Largemouth were up closer to shore and smallies were out a little bit. Once that bite slowed down I went to the drop shot since I was marking a lot of big fish down 20-25' near the bottom. Like a video game, you see the fish, drop the bait on him, THUNK! It didn't always go that smoothly, but several times it did.
I finally decided to head in before it started getting dark and wanted to try to hit a point near the launch. I pulled up and came in with the trolling motor only to see somebody had beat me to the spot! I was the only boat on the 6,000 acre lake, but I did have competition from this bald eagle. It figures that I didn't have my camera today and the cell phone pics aren't that great of him. I let him hold his ground on the point and headed in.

Some pics:

The eagle is up near the wood





















Action shots:

[Bender]

Yesterday the blade baits were working well:



Water temp was still 50 even though air temp was 39 in the afternoon. Sunny and most fish were 18-25' down. Except pike, they were shallow and of course like traps.

[Firefighter Jeff]

Incredible quality on all those fish.

[Ryan]

That takes a lot of skill to get action shots of your own fish while fighting them!   Those are some nice fish.

[skeeterman190]

Nice..so our spring trips gonna be to New York this year huh.. little farther than the 7hrs it took me to get to Grand..Nice fish bud.. how fars Champlain??

[Bender]

It's about an hour over to Plattsburgh. I've only been out there once so far and I didn't get huge numbers of fish but did have good size:



I should try to get out there again soon.

[fiker]

Keep posting pictures like these, and next summer there just might be a caravan from here to NY!