Today the day started at 4am. Jacky and Kelvin met at my place to load up and set off. The destination? We didn't decide till we got onto the highway. After a nearly 2 hour ride, we arrived to our destination. But by this time, it was already past 7am, we had hoped to try for some early first light topwater but it didn't happen.
We used the minn kota to maneuver around and fished the reeds. Nothing was caught in the first 45 minutes. Not until I got smacked by a surprise, a small musky! Took me for a couple short runs before it had succumbed to the net.
We worked around a few reed islands with only a few bass to show for it. So we moved on to some docks. Once we got to the docks, Kelvin hits a 1.5 pounder. It looked promising! but still proved to be slow. Overall I had a decent day on the water, hitting a musky, a few walleyes, panfish and several of the target species, bass, including a 4lb 12oz piggy.
The weather was beautiful again out there. Overcast skies provided relief from the sun and a light breeze came through once in a while to cool our skins from the heat.
We had a small tournament going between the three of us. Three points for largest bass, 1 point for each bass over 15 inches. I came out with about 8 points, Kelvin with 2 points and Jacky with a whooping 0. LOL better luck next time. My prize, dinner on them. Thanks for the beer and nachos boys.
This was the first time out for bass in almost two years(not including a cottage I went to last year for a week) since I've been so consumed with salmon trolling last year for the great Ontario salmon derby. It was fun, I'll have to get my gear ready for bass and head out again next week. For this trip I didn't have time to properly get all my gear ready. Next time I'll have better results to show ;)
I'll let the pictures below speak for themselves.
A nice surprise catch.
Some underwater shots taken with my new underwater housing on a Olympus PEN mini/ E-PM1 with a Olympus 9-18mm lens. I'll need to play around with it some more!
Hog 4Lb 12 oz largemouth
Pitching into the reeds
A nice 3 pounder
A nice fish pulled from some awesome looking docks near a marina
Jacky proudly showing his fish.
Double pumping the two top fish of the day - released to fight another day!
Releasing the hog back..
The set ups.
Most of the rigs used today, which all caught fish.
The garbage cup of used plastics from the day of fishing.
Summary
Kawartha Lakes
Docks, shoreline, reeds
7am-7:30pm
Cloudy, overcast, light drizzle.
Water surface temps ~80 degrees
See ya till next time.
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