Friday was a PD day

[Garry2Rs]

Yes Friday was a PD day so Natalie and her Dad called to see if I was interested in going fishing...Is the Pope a Catholic???...grin.

The water was in the high 50's at around 9:30, and the lake was dead calm.

The game plan was to start fishing just past the marina in West bay, around the big shoal ...There were lots of fish hitting the surface, but for our crankbaits, worms and spoons, there was nothing doing.

Next we worked our way toward Tallan Creek and found a couple of small Pike on a triangular shaped shoal.

Moving north toward the creek there's a shoal at the mouth of what I think is called Hawk Bay, I caught a good Bass on a 4 inch Senko type worm.

There was nothing around the docks and boats in the small bay east of the creek mouth and shoal. There are many weed patches in this bay. Tossing spinnerbaits and spoons we got a couple more small pike.

Both took a white and chartreuse spinner bait.

It was now well after noon, and a breeze was ruffling the surface. I wondered if this might get the Bass bite going.

We motored to the south shore and basically hit boats and docks. Working shallow we picked up another couple of Bass.

At 4:00 we had to head home to deal with other commitments.

In Summary:

The fishing was challenging...read tough...grin.

The dead calm water was probably what made it hard to get a bite.

The action picked up with the breeze.

The Bass are still shallow.

Edited October 6, 2007 by garry2rs

[Greencoachdog]

Thanks for the report and pics!

With the dead calm and surface action, I'd have had to thrown some topwater... preferably a buzzbait or a Spook!!!

[douG]

RR eats that water for breakfast.

 

Great portraits, Garry. Thx.

[irishfield]

Great stuff Garry !

[fatherof3]

good report,looks like you had a fun time

[ccmtcanada]

Great report! Nathalie is quite the angler there. Great pics and description of the days events...thanks for taking the time to share!

[ChrisK]

Great day on the water 2r's.....Always fun to get out with the young ones for a day on the water !!!

[mattyk]

nice report, thanks for sharing.

[Krisco]

Great report Gary, looks like a great day. Glad to see you pull a few out of west bay.

[Guest Johnny Bass]

Great report!I guess the big pike are still deep. I have a feeling we are going to have a really nice October! So maybe they will start putting on the feed in late October early November.

[Roy]

WOW! Dunno how I missed this one. Beauty report Garry. That second pic, the one of Natalie is just a great study of littler human beings. That is a great shot.

[TJQ]

Great report Garry!!

[Garry2Rs]

Thanks guys, glad you like it...Blush-Blush.