singingdog Posted November 4, 2015 Report Posted November 4, 2015 Got out yesterday for the start of November smallie season. What a day! Shirt sleeve warm and virtually no wind. Water temps mid 50s, so I went looking in the usualy haunts in 15-20 FOW. Couldn't get bit on the bottom, couldn't find them in the column, so I decided to try shallow. The next few hours were a blast: 15 good quality fish, all in 4-8 FOW, crystal clear. All fish were caught on a ned rig, with everything else going untouched. Gotta love it when a half senko on a jig head outfishes hundreds of dollars worth of Japanese tackle
Roy Posted November 4, 2015 Report Posted November 4, 2015 Calm, beautiful weather, great bronzies...what else could you ask for. Thanks for sharing. Glad you had a good day.
singingdog Posted November 4, 2015 Author Report Posted November 4, 2015 Calm, beautiful weather, great bronzies...what else could you ask for. Thanks for sharing. Glad you had a good day. Yea, that second fish may be the prettiest smallie I have ever landed.
MCTFisher9120 Posted November 4, 2015 Report Posted November 4, 2015 Nice fish! Beauty's for sure love the colours.
Jigger Posted November 5, 2015 Report Posted November 5, 2015 Nice fish SD! All i can think about these past few days is how id rather be up there catching smallies than at work. Wouldn't you know it, weekend doesn't quite look the same. Nice haul!
AKRISONER Posted November 5, 2015 Report Posted November 5, 2015 interesting pattern you picked up on there. Ive read a few articles talking about male smallies making a one week trip back to the spawning beds in the fall...perhaps this is the result! its all a matter of timing i guess! nice job
singingdog Posted November 6, 2015 Author Report Posted November 6, 2015 interesting pattern you picked up on there. Ive read a few articles talking about male smallies making a one week trip back to the spawning beds in the fall...perhaps this is the result! its all a matter of timing i guess! nice job I've seen it in cold water before. I had a couple of days last November, catching them shallow on sunny, fairly calm days. On those days, they seem to concentrate on the flats where there is quick access to deeper water.
fishindevil Posted November 7, 2015 Report Posted November 7, 2015 There was a few big schools of smallies cruising the shallows the other day sunning themselves on sunny calm days they will find sand if it's shallow and sun ..... Turnover is on on some lakes in Hali as water temps are in some lakes 45-48 they will be heading to their overwintering spots very soon
Jigger Posted November 7, 2015 Report Posted November 7, 2015 My house manager let me have a cottage retreat this weekend. Was so pumped, got the boat ready, it's pouring rain. Gotta wait it out an hour, hope the bite is on! Going to try for the grandslam bass, walleye, musky and pike. Ill settle for some fat fall bronze but a guy can hope, right?
Jigger Posted November 7, 2015 Report Posted November 7, 2015 Well, the grandslam certainly didn't happen. Weather was crazy today. Think the lake is beginning to turn. Temp was between 48-49 and aside from one smallie from 25fow on the first spot, it was very slow today. I tried all the late season spots and marked a few, but didn't even get a sniff until the last spot, a great late season shoal that drops from 8-30fow. Spent a good hour there and probably got between 12-15 smallies. First one almost yanked the rod from my hands! All fish were suspended off the shoal and parallel casts with moderate pauses were key. Can't wait to do it again tomorrow!
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