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Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Fall
Technique
Lipless Crankbaits
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
72°
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Fall
Technique
Lipless Crankbaits
Structure
Pilings
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
65°
Beautiful fall day to fish. Slightly overcast, with a slight wind out of the south east most of the day. Water clarity was garbage, which is about standard for the Kalamzoo river. Current was going pretty good as well making the slower presentations pretty hard to fish. First things first, all the fish we weighed were caught on a rat-l-trap ripping around the dock pilings and sea walls. Standard approach of cast it past, and rip/let fall, rip/let fall. A lot of hits near the boat as well. Managed to catch one keeper and one other on a Dark Sleeper dragging it down a rocky shore as well, and a couple dinks on a wacky. We managed first place (11.3lbs) and big bass (3.7lbs).
Species
Smallmouth BassSeason
Summer
Technique
Ned Rigs
Structure
Pilings
Forage
Shad
Both largemouth and smallmouth bit was on early afternoon. Nothing more than 2.5lbs but they wanted the bright color Ned’s. Would cast up current and let it come down and they would snatch it.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Summer
Technique
Texas Rigs (Worming)
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Bluegill
Water Temperature
76°
Water clarity was about 1.5-2' for the most part. Very rainy conditions, wind wasn't really significant though. Very overcast. Started off the evening with a few on the frog including a great pike. Ended up catching the rest on wacky rig's, t-rigged cut-r worm and a home pour mustache bait. Our bag was 11.21lbs with a 3.11lb kicker. BB - 3.52lbs 13.8 lbs 12.2 lbs 11.8 lbs
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Summer
Technique
Frogs/Toads
Structure
Lily Pads
Forage
Bluegill
Water Temperature
73°
Conditions were super windy and coming out of the North which generally screws up the Kalamazoo River in the area. Water clarity was pretty terrible as well. Most of the big cheese mats had been pushed out of the pads into the southern sections. A few dinks starting the night off and no decent fish until got to the back of Silver. Put two in the boat off the thick grass and pads. Bass were mostly sucking the legs in on the frogs and it was somewhat difficult to get good hookups. Winning bags were 13.10, 12.42, and 12.11 with a 3.76 big bass. Bigger one in the photo was 3.41.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Summer
Technique
Topwater Popping
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Minnows
Name of the game seemed to be fishing fast over submerged vegetation. Top water was fairly active when evening came around as well. Docks were ok with neds and wacky rigs but didn't product anything of significant size.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Spawn)
Technique
Wacky Rigs
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Bass were holding to dead grass on the south side of the Bayou, Silver Lake. Very active on fast fished wacky rigs.
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Summer
Technique
Texas Rigs (Pitch/Flip)
Structure
Docks
Few largemouth 3+ lbs
HotbaitBioSpawn Vilebug - EOL Junebug / 4"
Out of Stock
Species
Largemouth BassSeason
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Frogs/Toads
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Minnows
Water Temperature
74°
Hit the water around 5:30 and the wind was pretty strong, about 15-20mph. Pretty cloudy/overcast as well and the water visibility was pretty much zero. Most of the crew went up to Silver (which in retrospect looked to be the better idea) but we headed down stream to Kalamazoo and the flats. Our first keeper came on the Yamatanuki. We pulled up and moved to a different side of the lake to try to find some shallows with feeding bass. Eventually spotted a slick of slime/mats in some shallow water (about 1') and filled the bag with Jackall Kaera. In the uploaded video you can see a bass missing the frog and grabbing a wacky worm that I threw right on top of where it missed the frog. We decided to pull out of the spot and head to the other side of the lake to see if the flats on that side produced better. Unfortunately the wind started picking up more and we weren't able to get the frog bite going again. We culled a couple of times on some fish off a rat-l-trap and a popper. Weights- 1st-15.47 2nd-13.33 3rd-12.39 BB- 4.76 Our bag was 10.08lbs In retrospect, given the fish we were catching were mostly in shallow water, we should have headed back up into the marsh or into Silver to see if we could get the frog bite going again.
