I finally spent some time on the water just fishing for fun after a busy June fishing Tournaments. Our day started out fishing for Smallmouth. It didn’t take my fishing partner for the day Jeff Scott and I long to catch our first smallie! After our trip today Jeff made off with a large supply of BFT jigs and plastics, as he is headed on a Canadian trip Wednesday. Mr.Scott was not going with out a supply of these bass catching plactics!!
We started out fishing a shallow rock reef on the eastside of Mille Lacs. This reef was just out of the way of the busy boat and jet ski traffic…….I started pitching a H2o jig tipped with a pink orange sherbert colored ringworm. Jeff was texas rigging them…..well after I hooked up with a couple he decided to do the same! I had noticed a number of crawfish in the shallow rocks off my dock. I thought that maybe the pink orange sherbert or chartrouse orange core would be hot colors today. Well I was right on the P O S color! We caught a few fish on the motoroil gold and I still have a few gold speckled ones that work well for me also.
We found fish as shallow as 4 feet and as deep as 10. It was a little warm on the water with the hot sun and high temperature. Good day to be fishing and not working I thought!!! The smallmouth ran in size from 16-18 inches. Also to report this week was one of my neighbor’s caught a 21 inches smallmouth weighing in at just under 6lbs. They said it was a whale!!! One of these days we will have a new state record smallie coming from these waters!!
While bass fishing Jeff and I came up with a plan to take his boat out in the afternoon and fish with his down riggers. We didn’t have a lot of time to work on a pattern, so I headed out to a big fish spot Hook and I have NW of Fishers flat. It wasn’t to long and Jeff said fish on!! He caught the only walleye on this trip, a long male fish measuring in at around 25 1/2 inches. This fish hit a chrome blue Reef Runner. Jeff had out around 60 feet of line and was hooked up to the ball at 15 feet down. Any lower he was dragging mud! The fish that we were locating were just off the bottom in 37 feet. I would have liked to had more time to spend this afternoon. But both Jeff and I had other plans……Well it still was a fun day of fishing!!
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Bob, if you get a chance, try Ringworms rigged with a three way, and a two hook harness, with the second hook coming out just before the twister tail! I did this while up there last, and pulled them over the rocks. Purple/White worked out very well for me.
Tuck
Bobber, nice multi-species report. It just dont get better than catching eyes and smallies!
Thanks guy’s! with the smallmouth bite starting to take off……it will be hard to spend time fishing walleye