MCTFisher9120 Posted June 28, 2017 Report Share Posted June 28, 2017 (edited) Good morning everybody! It's been a long fall, winter, and spring but summer is here and my first trip away is in the books! Opening day a good friend of mine was invited to come along for a week of bass fishing on my favourite lakes in Eastern Ontario. I'll stick to my pictures on this report. My buddy had a blast caught his first fish punching & frogging the heavy cover. Don't think he broke 4 but stung quality 2-3lbr's all week. This week had it's challenges I didn't get bite on a Spinnerbait, Swimjig, Frog, Flipping Jig, Deep Cranks, it was a different game when we showed up. Temp wise we started the week with temps in the mid 70's touching 80 on opening day. Thru the week however I found temps dropped at the lowest mid day finding 69 and the warmest touching 78. It seems like 72-78 was the general temperature most days depending on the wind and rain. Pitching a 1/2oz weight above my go-to plastic's was the ticket on the edges of cover. When we went in punching all I needed was the 1oz tungsten, a punch skirt and my other go-to soft plastic. 2 fish on a swinging hammer this week only in the rain thru pad fields. For hardbait's it was a 1-2 punch. Work the (jerk bait) Vision 110+1 out deep or in the sun and work the (finesse spook) Dog-X Speed Slide thru the darker areas or shade lines mid day. Enjoy the pictures and please watch the video at the end. It's not a "sponsor plug" yet a view of our journey Tuesday-Friday Night of the week(didn't film every day sadly). My go to bait's this week were as follows: -Vision 110+1 (Megabass Sexy Shad) -Dog-X Speed Slide (White Python) -4.5" PowerTeam Lures Bully Grass Devil (1oz) (4/0 Punch Hook) -3.5" PowerTeam Lures Texas-Rig Jig (1/2oz) (5/0 EWG+ Hook) Opening day bucket! We showed up at 1pm had this guy in the boat by 3 or 4pm. Great way to start the week but a 1 bite outing for me. Chunky low to high 3lbr's better than average was happy for another decent bite. First 4lb+ of the week swallowed the 110 at the bow-mount jumping straight at me was a wicked scrap! We followed rock wall/rocky banks in the early hours following small "bedroom sized" balls of bait. They would flicker on the surface we would slide in with a 1-2 punch for the kill. Had some incredible numbers some mornings with a 13-16" average. Pop belly pig's we were catching thankfully we got this big one prior to hitting the schooling bait. Decent chunk from the heavy cover. Sight fish just snuck past a log jam and saw her swim out at nothing it looked. 2 seconds later she was on 3 seconds after that she was in the boat. Got it on go pro dink but happy to have her. Beautiful morning Smallmouth. Didn't get onto these very much this week, once i had a taste that evening I made sure to walk the Dog-X Speed Slide around and picked up two more mid 3lbr's cast after cast. Fish #1 Fish #2 Lot of these this week. 2lb chunk's Ended up fishing a small club tournament on a nearby lake. 19 fully rigged bass boat's showed up we were the little guy. Managed to catch 11.98lbs (not impressed bow mount died mid day didn't help) and take 7th place. 16lb's won that day something that still didn't impress me. Hopefully well get into more come next summer or this August coming. Towards the end of the week we fished more new water and caught both smallmouth and largemouth on it. Here is a decent smallie once again. Big fish of the week. Not a 5 but happy to have her. Also made the GoPro edit! And last but not least ladies and gent's check out this edit I put together. 3 cameras and a lot of time. Was a blast. Next report will be on my 2 week trip this coming August! Bass Opening Week 2017 Tightlines, MTBF Edited June 28, 2017 by MikeTheBassFisher Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlueEye Posted June 28, 2017 Report Share Posted June 28, 2017 wow - great pics! Nice going Mike Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobowski Posted June 28, 2017 Report Share Posted June 28, 2017 wow. Awesome report bud. Looks like you guys had a great week Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LucG Posted June 28, 2017 Report Share Posted June 28, 2017 Good job on the edit! I appreciate how much time goes into the filming and editing process as I do quite a bit of it myself. Keep it up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fishindevil Posted June 28, 2017 Report Share Posted June 28, 2017 awesome mike....some real nice fish man.....well done vids too...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dan668 Posted June 28, 2017 Report Share Posted June 28, 2017 Looks like an amazing opener, thanks for sharing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misfish Posted June 28, 2017 Report Share Posted June 28, 2017 Sweet report Mike. You still look like your 15. LOL Great mix in your report. Reason why I posted the poll. Thanks for taking the time. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buick14 Posted June 28, 2017 Report Share Posted June 28, 2017 Man this is a sick report ! Nice pics, looks like you had a great time. Video was super cool. I always enjoy reading your posts Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spincast Posted June 28, 2017 Report Share Posted June 28, 2017 cool report, and as always some good size tanks in the mix - nice edit on the vid. You guys must fish a lot together - managing to fish off the bow and not pushing or hooking one another. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DaveRoach Posted June 28, 2017 Report Share Posted June 28, 2017 Great report Mike, sure wish you'd smile more Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OhioFisherman Posted June 29, 2017 Report Share Posted June 29, 2017 It might have been the bass pictures? but my dog howled to the music! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PUMP KNOWS Posted June 29, 2017 Report Share Posted June 29, 2017 Nice report. Lots of nice healthy looking bass in that lake Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
4x4bassin Posted June 29, 2017 Report Share Posted June 29, 2017 Nice report and great video Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
manitoubass2 Posted June 29, 2017 Report Share Posted June 29, 2017 Sweet report and great video! You certainly can figure them out Mike!!! Great stuff! I love that you add what baits were used/produced Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lunkerbasshunter Posted June 29, 2017 Report Share Posted June 29, 2017 great report and vid! Cheers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jds63 Posted June 29, 2017 Report Share Posted June 29, 2017 Great report Mike as always , thanks for sharing !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cast-Away Posted June 29, 2017 Report Share Posted June 29, 2017 Some very nice bass Mike. The body of water you are fishing looks very similar to the Moon River Basin on Georgian Bay. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ralph Field Posted June 29, 2017 Report Share Posted June 29, 2017 great report ! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCTFisher9120 Posted June 30, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2017 Sweet report and great video! You certainly can figure them out Mike!!! Great stuff! I love that you add what baits were used/produced Got chirped hard in the past is what it is. We use nothing but Megabass for hardbait's and PowerTeam Lures for plastics. Owner Hooks, Sunline Line, Nichols Spinnerbait's and Snag Proof Frogs. Bout it man haha Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MCTFisher9120 Posted June 30, 2017 Author Report Share Posted June 30, 2017 Thanks for the reply's and comment's everybody! Always nice to read up and hear that you guys liked the pictures and report. Round 2 is this August can't wait 2 weeks this trip expect some tanks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Moosebunk Posted June 30, 2017 Report Share Posted June 30, 2017 You're "handle" has always summed it up! Lotsa solid bass Mike. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rattletrap2 Posted June 30, 2017 Report Share Posted June 30, 2017 Now that right there is some Bass fishing! Great job and report. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gordy28 Posted June 30, 2017 Report Share Posted June 30, 2017 Great report - looks like it was a solid opener Thanks for sharing techniques as well - flipping for largemouth is something I always mean to try but never do Gordy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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