I had several reasonably good trips fishing for White Bass and Smallmouth, including a nice bonus Walleye. The White Bass never did seem to come in overwhelming numbers like I have seen in the past but the run was decent and I tried to take advantage while I could.
I had the best day of Salmon fishing I have personally experienced on Lake Michigan. Mike and I fished out of St Joseph, MI. We went out to 85 feet of water to start. I dropped in a 10 color lead core, put a planar board on it, and before I could get the rod into the holder, the drag was going and a 15lb King Salmon was on the other end of the line. It was incredible! The action never slowed up as we ended up hooking a fish nearly every 20 minutes for the next several hours. My day was capped off by catching a 39 inch long, 21 1/2 inch girth, 21 pound King on a dipsy diver and spoon. The fish easily stripped off over 100 feet of line in it's opening run. I have never ever seen line come off of a reel that fast. The sound of the drag was incredible and something I will not soon forget. In total, Mike and I fished for 4 1/2 hours and boated 8 King Salmon and 2 Lake Trout. Definitely an incredible day of fishing by anyone's standards.
I got to spend an afternoon fishing with Frank from TwiztedFishingTV for Channel Catfish on a small creek. We floated the creek and fished using cut bait under split floats. It was a heck of a lot of fun and very educational for me since I do very little Catfish fishing. We boated well over a dozen decent cats including one that Frank caught that went nearly 7 pounds!
I do have video of all of these adventures, but with my computer being down I am not sure when I will get them edited and posted. Hopefully soon! Until then, All I have to share is some pictures from the past month. Enjoy!
