Post by Brian on Oct 24, 2017 12:02:16 GMT -5
Got a chance to fish Sunday. Seeing as how the weather was perfect and the pike were biting we went back to Champlain. Was pleasantly surprised to see only three trailers at the access at 11:00. Maybe everyone was out turkey hunting. We were pike hunting and happy to catch a few bass besides.
Water was pretty clean, cleanest I've seen it in a while, but I don't get out as often as others. With a SW breeze we headed over to the point where we caught them Wednesday. No one home. Maybe Roy caught them all the day before
. Had a few light hits heading north up the grass line. Then a bite off, a pike landed, a pike lost. Sort of the way the day played out, except the bite offs ended at two. Pretty amazing really, because later in the day we switched to more bass type lures w/o wire and still landed 30" class fish.
Had a nice mixed bass, pike and pickerel bite at a popular point. Breeze laid down and water seemed to get even cleaner. Pike weren't off the grass lines like they were on Wednesday....they were everywhere. Except for Big Dippers (wore out my last one
) jumbo lures didn't work. Di had tons of hits on big spoons but none that stuck. The 14 pike that we caught and released came mostly on swimbaits, swimjigs and spinnerbaits. Was fun seeing so many hit, and miss or hook up on our lures. Towards sunset we had some enormous blow ups on the BB's...but didn't stick. Landed 3 of our nine bass on the BB's. Next time.
Diane's turn to land the big ones. At 34.5" this eating machine weighted 9.5 lb. The spinnerbait it hit had more colors than a kids lunch box.
She got the big bass too...after popping the chatterbait off a weed, this 5 lb 7 oz 20.5" model inhaled it.
While I'm messing around with the camera Di reminds me that the Little Dipper isn't on a wire leader...opps...get moving boy
Roy gave us an odd inline type buzzbait a few years ago, maybe an Iaconelli product, it's heavy, casts like a bullet, excellent sound but has a small hook. Pike wouldn't stick, but a square bass did.
Water was pretty clean, cleanest I've seen it in a while, but I don't get out as often as others. With a SW breeze we headed over to the point where we caught them Wednesday. No one home. Maybe Roy caught them all the day before
. Had a few light hits heading north up the grass line. Then a bite off, a pike landed, a pike lost. Sort of the way the day played out, except the bite offs ended at two. Pretty amazing really, because later in the day we switched to more bass type lures w/o wire and still landed 30" class fish.Had a nice mixed bass, pike and pickerel bite at a popular point. Breeze laid down and water seemed to get even cleaner. Pike weren't off the grass lines like they were on Wednesday....they were everywhere. Except for Big Dippers (wore out my last one
) jumbo lures didn't work. Di had tons of hits on big spoons but none that stuck. The 14 pike that we caught and released came mostly on swimbaits, swimjigs and spinnerbaits. Was fun seeing so many hit, and miss or hook up on our lures. Towards sunset we had some enormous blow ups on the BB's...but didn't stick. Landed 3 of our nine bass on the BB's. Next time.Diane's turn to land the big ones. At 34.5" this eating machine weighted 9.5 lb. The spinnerbait it hit had more colors than a kids lunch box.
She got the big bass too...after popping the chatterbait off a weed, this 5 lb 7 oz 20.5" model inhaled it.
While I'm messing around with the camera Di reminds me that the Little Dipper isn't on a wire leader...opps...get moving boy
Roy gave us an odd inline type buzzbait a few years ago, maybe an Iaconelli product, it's heavy, casts like a bullet, excellent sound but has a small hook. Pike wouldn't stick, but a square bass did.
