Matt and I have been talking about fishing together all spring and today was the day it all came together. Hit the Riverpark at 6:30 this morning and headed straight to one of my favorite large mouth banks. Did not take long and I put a nice 3.5 lber in the boat on a jig. A few spots later Matt puts a nice keeper LMin the boat on a spinner bait. A few minutes later I put chunky 4 lber in the boat on a torpedo. A few spots and non keeper LM later and we decide to ride to the bend. Big waste of time. Got maybe 5 spots down there. </p>
So back to downtown we went. Hit a bank thathad been holding lots of fish this spring and it did not take long to start putting fish in the boat. Matt got anotherkeeper LM on a spook and we both got a fewspots. Hit another banks and got a short LM andfew more spots. Went back to where we started this morningandagain, more spots and LM. Matt was getting hammered on the spook but mostmissed the bait.Still fun to watch them try. </p>
Did twodrifts drop shotting for smallies. Got a nice 12 lb blue that fought like the devil, then I got a nice 4 lb smallie that might have been the hardest fighting smallie I ever caught. That was it for the smallies but we did pick up a few additional cats. </p>
For our efforts today we got 31 spots, 7 LM(4 keepers), 1 big blugill on torpedo, 3 rock bass, 1 keeper smallie, 3 blue cats and1 channel. Our best 3 bass went around 11.5 lbs today. Not bad. Water temp was 71. Topwater baits and pig n jigs were the best baits today.</p>
Perfect weather today, stayed cloudy the whole time and fishhit topwater pretty good. Good times. </p>
So back to downtown we went. Hit a bank thathad been holding lots of fish this spring and it did not take long to start putting fish in the boat. Matt got anotherkeeper LM on a spook and we both got a fewspots. Hit another banks and got a short LM andfew more spots. Went back to where we started this morningandagain, more spots and LM. Matt was getting hammered on the spook but mostmissed the bait.Still fun to watch them try. </p>
Did twodrifts drop shotting for smallies. Got a nice 12 lb blue that fought like the devil, then I got a nice 4 lb smallie that might have been the hardest fighting smallie I ever caught. That was it for the smallies but we did pick up a few additional cats. </p>
For our efforts today we got 31 spots, 7 LM(4 keepers), 1 big blugill on torpedo, 3 rock bass, 1 keeper smallie, 3 blue cats and1 channel. Our best 3 bass went around 11.5 lbs today. Not bad. Water temp was 71. Topwater baits and pig n jigs were the best baits today.</p>
Perfect weather today, stayed cloudy the whole time and fishhit topwater pretty good. Good times. </p>
