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Hey everybody, hope this past summer was good to all of you and now that Fall is well under way I hope you all get out there once or twice it's so quiet this time of year on the lakes makes for a relaxing day. I wanted to make a short write up on a recent trip. I got the opportunity to bring a friend fishing for a day and a morning this past week. We made the trip early Wednesday morning. Leaving Oshawa around 5am we got to the lake shortly after 8 or 9 in the morning. The lake was glass flat at first. As soon as we got the boat in the water we read the water temp at about 66 degrees. In past trips I made this time of year the water temps were from 63 to 68 degrees. I kept a open mind and went off of some new smallmouth tactics I learned this past August. We got on the water, each with 7 or 8 rods in the boat we had lot's to throw at the bass. I started using a combo of a 3.5" Green Pumpkin tube and a 110+ Jerkbait, getting the bait down 7 or 8 ft on 10lb Fluoro I had a little 2lbr come up right away in 22ft close to a rock pile a half hr into the day. I was stoked, my buddy then got 2 smaller largies on a crank bait in the same spot. We drifted down further and I got one on the plastic, was a solid high 3lb fish made my morning. Great fight on the light line. Well after this we took our time out in 2 spots where both little fish and pike were all to be found. It was qr to noon at this point so I wanted to see if a bay I love to hit only this time of year would produce a largemouth or two. I decided to hang back a little with his boat and just work the swim bait up through the pads. My friend threw a toad style frog subsurface and got a pair of smaller largemouth. I got the first bite in the bed, was a solid largemouth bass. What a good bite. We were 1 degree warmer in close to the cover here. After this we headed in for lunch and got back out on the lakes around 1 or 2pm. We headed to a big stretch where I get good largemouth usually. This time not so much, we pitched and worked baits slow with no luck, just 2 small bass in the hr or 2 we were there and a few baby pike. I moved to another smallmouth location where my friend nailed a mid 2lb range smallie on the jerk bait. Made me happy, we went pitching again in some semi shallow semi deep wood/rock cover with no luck striking out with a few 1lb baby bass for the late afternoon and a 4 or 5lb pike. I was happy to have a tight line at that point haha. The next morning we got out late for a few hours. I again was the Pike master with 2 on the line but I struck out for bass, my friend got a nice chunky fish for the cold morning and new wind that came up overnight. Made me happy. Enjoyed my little trip and relaxed a little. Might have 1 or 2 more day trips left in me for to cap off the season but in the Kawartha lakes see what these close to home fish are doing Thanks for reading everybody! MTBF