winthrop55

Rainy Memorial Day weekend. Power bait for rainbows and brown trout. Boat ramp from shore ... also add a mealworm to pink yellow powerbait

Beautiful day no wind 60 degrees . made my way back to Harold parker SF. Two set ups with shiners one with 20# test 1 with 8 pound test. Caught 5 fish in 40 min. 3 bass 1 1/2 to 2/12 pounds. 1 21 inch pickerell and the coup de gras a 20.5 inch 4 pound 9 ounce largemouth.

Sunday morning perfect weather around 10am fish the small pond at Lorraine campground. Not heavily fished this year cuz of complete coverage in pads. Fishing with large shiner hooked through tail watch shiner act crazy and surface boom watch big one grab it. Got to drag him through heavy coverage disturbing all of pond lillies. Name of pond is Frye pond can’t find it on maps.. every time I come here I hook up with big one within 5 minutes then no more bass. The rest of morning is all perch and sunfish. Return again in few days

20 mph sustained winds 50 degrees sunny 2 early mornings. Used crawlers and shiners. Fish didn't leave enough time to bait second hook caught 30 fish in 2 days largemouth biggest 17 inch lots small 10 inch and random pickerall and perch

Heavy wind 20 mph sustained. 50 degrees nightcrawlers and live shiners. No hesitation fish not even giving me enough time to bait second hook. Had 1 with crawler 1 with shiner. Caught 15 bass in 2 days. Biggest ones 17 inches also caught random pickerell perch sunfish. 1st time in me and wife fish cape

Sunny cold water temp 61 air temp 39 going for smallmouth originally with crawfish but no action then switched to crawlers and my wife pulled in her first rainbow

Caught a couple nice smallmouth using crawfish from shore at public boat launch. If u have boat the sunken logs near beach at hawthorn village will yield some monsters using hellgramites or crawfish

Using crawfish fishing from public boat launch . there are also a lot of sunken logs throughout the lake that will yield good size smallmouth.

Caught several nice smAllmouth fishing from shore at public boat launch. Using live crawfish caught 3 nice between 11/2 to 2 pound about 6 babies. Fun day