Thursday I called into work and took a vacation day due to a slow night before and an extra day off for Labor day. So we take off for camp a day early, I knew there was only going to be 1 good night of fish'n cause Earl was coming up the coast and a big cold front was coming across with high winds. So we quickly cut the grass, install 67 spindles on the deck, my spacing between was 2x as code so I need one more inbetween the whole deck, 20 x 20. Then I load the truck up, we eat dinner and take off for camp. Open camp up, son was so tired, he was out cold in bed before his 3 cousins so up, pour bean. Put wife to bed and drag the 15' canoe down the bank for hopefully some dark, moonless fish'n, which I got an little more than an hour before she came up to kill the topwater bite.
So just off the close end of the closest point to camp out in the lake is a nice long rocky to sandy bottom. I was getting lots of rockbass popping on the jitterbug but no takers. With a reel and pause retrieve, all of a sudden on a pause in the reel back, smash o.
So that was it for the 1st point I fished, a quick little paddle across to the other point headed to the bouy out on another long sandy point. But on the way there are some big rocks that stick out of the water with 4-7 FOW all around, a great place for some topwater action on the dark side of the trees. This little hole has lots of rockies in it.
A little smallie that has a mouth full of hooks, the right way to hook'em.
Then can you believe this one, 1 Jitterbug, 2 hooks, 2 rockbass.
Thursday I called into work and took a vacation day due to a slow night before and an extra day off for Labor day. So we take off for camp a day early, I knew there was only going to be 1 good night of fish'n cause Earl was coming up the coast and a big cold front was coming across with high winds. So we quickly cut the grass, install 67 spindals on the deck, my spacing between was 2x as code so I need one more inbetween the whole deck, 20 x 20. Then I load the truck up, we eat dinner and take off for camp. Open camp up, son was so tired, he was out cold in bed before his 3 cousins so up, pour bean. Put wife to bed and drag the 15' canoe down the bank for hopefully some dark, moonless fish'n, which I got an little more than an hour before she came up to kill the topwater bite.
So just off the close end of the closest point to camp out in the lake is a nice long rocky to sandy bottom. I was getting lots of rockbass popping on the jitterbug but no takers. With a reel and pause retrieve, all of a sudden on a pause in the reel back, smash o.
So that was it for the 1st point I fished, a quick little paddle across to the other point headed to the buoy out on another long sandy point. But on the way there are some big rocks that stick out of the water with 4-7 FOW all around, a great place for some topwater action on the dark side of the trees. This little hole has lots of rockies in it.
A little smallie that has a mouth full of hooks, the right way to hook'em.
Then can you believe this one, 1 jitterbug, 2 hooks, 2 rockbass.
Then I make my way out to the bouy and tie off. The wind was just starting to blow a little bit and I didn't have an anchor. The moon was just about to come up, the weather was perfect with an incoming cold front. I started out catching a few rockies and took this nice red light special for ya, A!!!!!
Then next thing ya know, I ran into one hell of a school of feeding smallies, all hell broke loose it was awesome!!!! Fish On!
nice 16"er, can't get any better.
What to my surprise, one blows up on the jitterbug just a few feet from the canoe and starts jumping like hell and jumps right into the boat around the 4th or 5th series of acerbatic airborne arials. It was awesome and unreal yet again for the night, totally wicked!
Then the moon came out some where around 1:00-1:30am and I paddled back to camp knowing that Friday afternoon was going to be the last day time fishing before the cold front and got out fishing for that too but that's another report.
Fish On!
