2014 Open water season

[dhickey]

Spent the last 4 days chasing lake trout near Bancroft and a we got nothing but a small shaker and small mouth.

The interesting thing was that I didn't see 1 bass bed?

It's a deep lake and the water was frigid (like ice)

 

Any other observations?

 

Don

[mattaw]

Spent the last 4 days chasing lake trout near Bancroft and a we got nothing but a small shaker and small mouth.

The interesting thing was that I didn't see 1 bass bed?

It's a deep lake and the water was frigid (like ice)

 

Any other observations?

 

Don

 

Interesting. I fished a couple of lakes around the Kawarthas and Bancroft this weekend. Water ranged from 52 up to 61 (average in the main lakes I fished was about 55) on most of the lakes depending on how deep they were and where you were. I saw some bass on the beds in the warmer shallow bays, but very little growth on the weed front compared to other years, we'll have to see how everything ramps up. Just my few observations.

[moxie]

We haven't seen much in the way of grass either. Pretty tough for anything to grow if that ball of fire keeps hiding behind the clouds. Soon enough. I hope.

[chris.brock]

the walleye were still surprisingly aggressive

 

we did bump into a few bass, all larger, plump females, didn't see any beds

 

managed 4 lakers, no biggies though, 2 of them came from 4 FOW in shallow bays, the lakers can be tough since they could be anywhere this time of year