Cove Bay, 2:30pm – 9:45pm.
We started out pitching Chompers Tubes and rolling Woo Daves Smallmouth Spinnerbaits over the rocks just outside of Cove around the point. The only fish we found were the Y.O.Y. perch, and lots of them. Everywhere we went on the rock piles was covered with 2″ perch. After about two hours probing the stones with no luck we decided to key on weed/rock transitions. Our best luck came on the north shore of Cove Bay. We tangled with 5 pike in the dead/new reeds (all in the 4-6 lb. range) on topwater and missed 4 others. We had one bronzeback blow-up on a Spook but got no hooks. The best smallie action came on the N/NE shore rock pile, I scored first with 16.5″ on a white inline, orange blade. My partner Bob backed that up with a 10″ bluegill, that took a -1 in firetiger boatside. We lost two other fish boatside, nothing huge, just fiesty. We worked our way around from there to the south shore, where I scored one more 17″ smallie skipping a white Slug-O under docks, and just letting it sink, with the occassional twitch.
All and all it was a pretty slow day, but the weather was beautiful, the Jet-Skis weren’t out yet, and the beers were all ICE COLD!!
Dan Larson
Hawg Hunters Guide Service