Wallye? No. Bass? Yes

[Rod Caster]

I couldn't get the walleye to bite today so I switched to bass mode with a wacky worm rig and caught 3 nice large mouth bass. Smallies are much more common up here so it was nice to hook into some LMB.

 

Weightless fishing isn't easy. Its tough to get a "feel" for the wacky rig since it's very much a visual style of fishing, watching the line for movement, the surface for boils and using polarized glasses to see below the surface. I found myself being very impatient and reeling in too fast and twitching it too hard but after I got my first one I slowed things down and worked harder at keeping the canoe still. I'm still a bass fisherman-in-training so I can only imagine how many 4 or 5 pound fish a REAL bass fisherman would have caught at this location.

 

the biggest one was approximately 19inches

 

 

 

[louderthenu]

Nice catch rod caster wish i was there.

[mercman]

Excellent RC !!! Try Texas rigged next time.Fish it Realllllllll slow.They cant resisit a good powerworm this time of year.

[adolson]

Nice! I'd like to catch a largemouth some day. Don't think there are any close by.

[mercman]

Nice! I'd like to catch a largemouth some day. Don't think there are any close by.

 

I dont know, Dana Some of those lakes you been fishing in show potential.Lily pads, logs, overhangs, weedbeds and inside weedlines.

[LucG]

Good job buddy! Sorry I couldnt make it!

[rockfish]

Nice bass, I just started using the wacky rig this summer past and I was just slowly jigging it. I'd also speed up the retrieve, not letting it drop so much and that caught some bass too in the dark.

[Dave Bailey]

Nice! I'd like to catch a largemouth some day. Don't think there are any close by.

 

They are up there, just keep washing lures until something takes it.

[Rod Caster]

Dana, I'm not sure what the northern boundary is for largies, but I don't know any spots past Marten River. It seems most of the largie lakes in my area are south of North Bay.