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With a favorable weather forecast, we put the battery on the charger last night
in anticipation for our first day
on the water
for 2007.
The temperature was 59-degrees at game time and the air
temperatures ran
from between 59 to 61-degrees all day. The water
temperature was from
between 48 and 52-degrees depending on where we
were at.
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The
first fish of the day was a chain pickerel, a toothy critter! Mark stuck
with
a
Blakemore
Road Runner all day, matched with his ultralight spinning rod.
Mark
caught seven bass and a pickerel,
with all of the bass between one and
three pounds.
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Mark said that all of his hits were aggressive, and I noticed that he
really mixed
up his retrieve, never just a slow return to the boat, but
rather an occasional twitch, jerk, pause and retrieve, anything erratic.
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Most of the fish came from the shallows along the shoreline, in
stick-up's and
grass. The deepest fish came from seven and ten feet of
water. We were looking for deep, schooling fish in the hopes for crappie
and/or bluegill, but never got either. We were pleasantly surprised that
the bass were 'turned-on'. Maybe they know that we are going to have
a
lunar eclipse this evening?
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I
on the other hand, worked between three
rod and reel
combo's and used
a Berkley Batwing Frog (no fish), Senko Worm (1 fish),
Reaction Innovation
Sweet Beaver (one monster hit with the tail torn
off), and six bass coming off
of a BooYah Boogie Bait (in-line
chatterbait). Mark
and I both used MegaStrike
fish attractant, which we
swear by.
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Can
you say BooYah! I nailed this 5-pound bass on the boggie bait
in tall
reeds
(soft rush and cattail). We had to use an anchor to work each good
looking
stretch of water because it was quite windy. My
two biggest fish
of the day
came from the windswept, fetch side of the water and in
flooded grass.
Most of Mark's fish came from the mouth
of small streams
as they entered big water (opportunistic fish).
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Check out the black spotted tail. We could hear both spring peeper
and
wood
frog in the flooded meadow swamps and as the evenings warm up more herps (herpetological amphibians/reptiles) will start singing and
breeding.
We also watched and listened to bluebirds
flitting through the
meadow saplings.
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Mark pretty much caught fish on most every piece of textbook
structure
he
cast into. These fish behaved as if they have not seen artificial
lures and hooks! |
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Again! This never
gets old, and with a nearly barb-less, tiny
Blakemore,
4-pound test line and ultra-light, Mark really worked those fish back to
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