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Post by vtbasser on May 16, 2010 21:01:12 GMT -5
Dad and I fished out of Larabees Saturday. The fishing was unremarkable aside from the vast number of alewives. Sometimes in backwaters I would have groups of them from 2-10 following my spinnerbait back 9 of 10 casts (oddly enough they didn't follow dad's crank). So what gives? I noticed a few last year but nothing like the numbers I saw Saturday. We fished a while fluke with success but otherwise, I didn't fish anything out of the ordinary. Have any of you noticed more alewives or have you adjusted bait choice? I couldn't stop thinking swimbait or just straight white and silver. Thoughts?
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Post by opsarge on May 17, 2010 6:42:55 GMT -5
I fished Larabee in the Lake Dunmore club tourney Sunday and had lots follow my spinnerbaits in. They didn't seem to interested in lipless cranks, cranks or swin baits. I haven't fish the area enough to say if there are more now than before. Results of the trip: 1 pickeral, 1 rock bass and 14 LM but only 6 were keepers 2-3 lb range. lost 1 about 6 lbs at the boat on a lipless crank. The wind was ripping yesterday.
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Post by vtbasser on May 17, 2010 17:47:43 GMT -5
Hmm. We saw the same thing, spinnerbaits were all they were interested in. Bummer about the lost fish, I had a hawg come unbuttoned just today. Not a nice feeling.
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Post by brianchico on May 17, 2010 20:19:36 GMT -5
I ran into a large school of them last year. Tried the swimbait and got a bunch of hits. But, I have no clue how to hook them on it. Swiched to a white senko and started catching them.
Glad to hear you guys are on the lake. I haven't been on Champlain in three weeks and can't wait to get back out. I'm stuck in PA this week wishing I was on the lake.
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Post by vtbasser on May 18, 2010 6:20:43 GMT -5
I ran into a large school of them last year. Tried the swimbait and got a bunch of hits. But, I have no clue how to hook them on it. Swiched to a white senko and started catching them.. You were catching bass not Alewives right? |
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Post by Brian on May 18, 2010 10:57:02 GMT -5
My wife and I fished out of Benson's Sunday. Brown's Bay was loaded with alewifes. Some were quite large, looked in the water to be 5" or 6". Every cast was followed by several, sometimes 8 or so. Small crankbaits, spoons, spinnerbaits. They were nipping at the spoon trailers and s'bait skirts but would come in underneath the crankbait. Also saw a lot of them in Peter's Bay. Monday saw them on the Lachute delta, where about 200 cormorants were in trees by days end.
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Post by brianchico on May 18, 2010 16:32:57 GMT -5
I ran into a large school of them last year. Tried the swimbait and got a bunch of hits. But, I have no clue how to hook them on it. Swiched to a white senko and started catching them.. You were catching bass not Alewives right? That is correct. The bass were surfacing all around on a feeding frenzy. |
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Post by Brian on May 19, 2010 15:43:56 GMT -5
April 18, 2008 was our first trip to Champlain for that year. Put in at South Bay, all around the RR tracks were hundreds of dead alewifes and big ones. After reading Fishes of Vermont this year I thought they may have been Blueback Herring, more likely big alewifes like those seen here.
We had seen the cormorants feeding at the mouth of the LaChute in the a.m., before we headed north for the rest of the day. When we came back south we tried to fish some shallow wood just below the Ti Light jetty, that's when we noticed the birds in the trees. Glad we saw them before getting too close as the were recycling their breakfast with large overhead dumps! Nasty!
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Post by vtbasser on May 22, 2010 19:19:43 GMT -5
Thats pretty cool, I didn't know there were so many of them around. Wonder if it is a good thing fishing wise or not. Probably a mixed bag. I had no idea they got o big, I figured they topped out at about 6 inches or so! Guess I will have to get some BIGG swimbaits then. Not.
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