now that winter is here I am missing my TT friends and the cool posts every day, now however we have purchased another reel and are back on tackle monkey track and are looking to add in another rod or two for 2017. Let's get onto "catching up" from 2016 I covered my trip in June now let's flashback to August and September.I took a week off in June for our opening week and that was a wicked trip. I won't post pics again from that holiday but what I didn't share were pictures from my next two vacations in August and September. We took 1 week off for each trip. August was tough as hell, we had temps every morning starting at 24-28 degrees with a feels like (due to humidity) of 30 as the sun same up. The afternoons for that week were anywhere from 30-36 with "feels like" temps right around 40 that's right about at 100 fahrenheit. Water temps that week were 80 to 89 for the most part something I've never fished here in Ontario.
We had our challenges that week but the primary producer was a small craw texas rigged and worked slow through pads and shallow vegetation and my second player was the 3/4 and 1oz flipping jigs. The best bite was a deep jig bite, stroking the jig aggressively they wanted that snap off the weed then the slow fall back down. Fished from 7ft to 16ft deep. On with some pictures!
Start of the trip first day in the "hot" water.
Chunk no giant but first good bite after a hour or two.
Now we find a kicker up in 2ft of stained water. Repeat the trent and almost skunk out for the rest of the afternoon. Random big girl back to fishing deep after this.
The next day Dad and I fish shallow cover again with little to no fish so I bounced back to deep weedlines again. Let me stress that the lakes were so different this year. We had a 2ft drop in water levels and were loosing a 1cm per day on our system. That falling water couldn't of helped as well as the current in this system of connecting lakes was almost non existent with water statement in areas. Can't wait for high water and normal temps again but we embraced the challenge.
Here is dad with his biggest of the summer dragging that 10" Ribbon Hinge Worm around.
Finally found a school of deeper bass. I was sitting in 7-9ft and was pitching down hill to 10-16FOW. Was a cool bite with majority of the fish in the higher 2lb range. Did find one kicker after 8 bites from chunks.
Piggy time
Got to love that jig bite
Shallow fish from matted cover the next day. 3lbr nice to have him. If i went out for 4-5 hours I was expecting 1-2 bites a hour. Was slow but with the heat had the lake to myself most afternoons as people stayed in there air conditioned trailers and cottages
Another evening another high 3 on that jig. One bite deep but was well worth the hour moving around on the weedline. Tore it up the day before
Next day we head to steep rock walls in search for more and bigger fish. Got a brown one then a fat chunk largie again. Smallie was a riot only one of the week on a jig.
Another nice largemouth from deeper pads
Only morning I got a decent smallie on the jerk bait. Lot's of smaller ones guess temps were too warm for the big girls to swim up from that 20-30 FOW
Last day I had fun as I always try to. Caught a few good fish this week lived the heat to tell the tale and was happy with myself for learning deeper weed. Last fish of the trip was around 3 or 4pm on Friday. I was going down a new shore mostly rock with a long tree angled off the rock every 75-100'. Dept was 6-12' at the base of the shoreline rock. First tree I am slowly pitching my way towards. We get closer and closer and throw out to where I can picture the tree ending in the water and my line jumps. Reel down set the hook and another fish so close to 5lb's was in the boat.
I took a few pics and let her go. Saw another few trees down the stretch but said hell with it and went back for dinner and to enjoy the evening. Can't wait to pound that crap next summer!
Setups
Jig Rod (3/4-1oz Jig's)
G.Loomis NRX895C JWR/Shimano Aldebaran 50HG
Sunline 22lb Flipping FC
The Perfect Jig 3/4oz-1oz (Stand-Up)/PowerTeam Lures 3.5" Texas-Rig Jig (Skirt is Cut off)
Plastics Rod (3/8-1/2oz)
G.Loomis NRX873C CRR/Shimano Aldebaran 50HG
Sunline 22lb Flipping FC
PowerTeam Lures 3.5" Texas-Rig Jig (3/8oz-1/2oz Tungsten)
Punching Rod (3/4-1-1/4oz)
G.Loomis NRX916C UBR/Shimano Chronarch 100D7
Sunline 60lb FX2 Braid
PowerTeam Lures 3.5" Texas-Rig Jig (3/4oz-1-1/4oz Tungsten)
YouTube Edit
https://youtu.be/qXpy2QMia6k
Thanks for reading and looking guys! Can't wait to see what 2017 has to offer. Stay tuned my report from September was a blast!
Tightlines,
MTBF
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