Saturday should have been a lucky day, 777 (July 07 2007), but it wasn't, really. Well, I should not complain, as many guys fishing on week ends would probably want to catch the nice smallmouth we caught this week end.
We went to Gate 31 for the first time this year and worked some of the spots we know pretty well. We did not catch anything on the main drop off area, so we decided to move on the other end to fish more drop offs. On the way, we hit (seriously, the prop did hit!) a shallow sandy area...after checking on the engine, Don suggested we tried fishing around it, with crazy drop offs of 30+ feet around it, it looked like a great spot.
It did not take long for Don to successfully back up his suggestion! A nice 2.8lb smallmouth bass, and we got a video:
We kept working on the area and I landed another smallmouth, 2.2lb:
We then moved on to the area where I had a blast on closing day, catching largemouth after largemouth, but we could not find them this year.
So overall, not a bad day, but not a great day either. I wished we caught another 2 or 3 decent fish, but I cannot complain!
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Saturday should have been a lucky day, 777 (July 07 2007), but it wasn't, really. Well, I should not complain, as many guys fishing on week ends would probably want to catch the nice smallmouth we caught this week end.
We went to Gate 31 for the first time this year and worked some of the spots we know pretty well. We did not catch anything on the main drop off area, so we decided to move on the other end to fish more drop offs. On the way, we hit (seriously, the prop did hit!) a shallow sandy area...after checking on the engine, Don suggested we tried fishing around it, with crazy drop offs of 30+ feet around it, it looked like a great spot.
It did not take long for Don to successfully back up his suggestion! A nice 2.8lb smallmouth bass, and we got a video:
We kept working on the area and I landed another smallmouth, 2.2lb:
We then moved on to the area where I had a blast on closing day, catching largemouth after largemouth, but we could not find them this year.
So overall, not a bad day, but not a great day either. I wished we caught another 2 or 3 decent fish, but I cannot complain!