Andrewschunk

Thank you soo much everyone, as this has really helped us out. Don't get me wrong there has only been one 9 pounder and one 8 pounder caught but there has been more 6-7 pound bass than 3-5 pound bass caught in all the trips we have done. Every bass that has exceeded 6 pounds that have been caught were largemouth except for the one smallmouth. Now we have noticed an EXTREMELY huge decrease in the rockbass population in the last few years as we can barely catch them now even when using earthworms. All fish over 6 pounds were weighed on a rapala digital scale and were measured by length and girth. In the past years the only cameras brought were those throw away ones from Walmart with the film. So I have pictures of the monsters but they are not on the computer. Does anyone know if you can scan them on? We have started to bring digital cameras in so I have some pictures of 6 pounders on the computer but I only found one on mine but I will keep looking on the other computer. P.S NO fish over 3 pounds have been harvested, cleaned or filleted. The bass in the picture below was just 5.6 pounds.

Its not a Bad thing just wanted your guys opinion on whats going on with the bass there.

Hello everyone. I need your help to figure out these bass in a chain of lakes in the Muskokas. I have been going to these lakes for close to 5 years and my Dad has been for over 20 years. We average two trips a year to these lakes, one on opening day of bass season for 3 days, and one closer to the end of July for 3 days. The lakes are quite wierd considering some parts can be 25 feet deep when your 30 feet away from shore and other parts of the shore are straight drop off but only 8 feet deep. The deepest parts in these lakes are around 60 feet. They hold Largemouth and Smallmouth and of course the little Panfish but no pike, muskie, trout, walleye or any other major predatorial fish. Now we nor the people we go on the trips with cannot figure out these bass. Some trips we can have 220 fish caught between two people and some only 90 fish caught between two people. The lakes hardly ever get fished because the amount of portaging and canoeing it takes to get to them. Now out of the 220 fish we catch in a trip, 217 are under 2 pounds. The other 3 fish are over 6 pounds so where are all of the 3,4,5 pound fish? We have caught 6,7,8,9 pound bass out of these lakes but rarely do you catch a 3,4,5 pound bass. Now the Biggest Smallmouth Caught was 6lbs but almost every smallmouth we caught in these lakes have been under 1.5 pounds. Also everytime we go there the fish are tight up to the shore are just out. We have tried fishing deeper water with DT's and jigs but not much luck. The lakes have rarely any weeds and it is mostly all rock bottom. This summer has been really hot so the water temperature has rised so we thought the fish would be deep but no they were still right up to the shore in 3-8 feet depth. Even the bigger bass this year that were over 6 pounds were caught in less than 10 feet of water. We rarely see minnows swimming around and most the fish we clean have empty stomachs and only some have little fish or crayfish in them. As we were picking the smallmouth up out of the water to release them they were throwing up some kind of extremly tiny water insects. Now does anyone know why these fish are so shallow throughout the summer and spring and why 95 percent of fish caught are under 2 pounds while 5 percent are over 6 pounds? Thanks, Have a great day