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Small Mouth Bass

8/18/2012

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Fishing the M  again but this time it takes a bit of a paddle to get to the 'good spot'.  On the way, one passes what might seem ideal bass territory: nice weed cover, overhanging branches, submerged logs, you name it.  On a lake, one would spend the day casting into such.  The only trouble is, SM bass don't like it.  Nothing, it seems is there (and I can't even blame the dastardly Bass Tournaments).   SM like moving water.  Maybe if these waters contained more LM bass, I wouldn't have to work so hard to get some good fishing.  The evening before I had to paddle about 1 km to get to some shallows with faster water and missed out on a (at least) three pounder.  It was on long enough for me to get a good look.  Got a few 12 inchers. Six fish in 2 hours of  ain't bad and almost half that time was spend paddling.  I was using my new 3wt Sharkskin line.  Man does it fly! But it is a bit noisy as it rubs against the steel.  10 ft leader with Brown Coney Leech: copper wire body, rabbit strip.

 I started off at 1PM so I have the time to get twice as far to an even better spot. (BTW, there is no way, I'm telling you where this spot is) After an hour of slugging away in my Sportspal canoe, I'm finally there and I can't keep them off.  It is a fish a cast but a good headwind keeps pushing me around as any canoeist will tell you, wind is the enemy......not great for casting either. After losing my net fish inside twice, I managed to get this picture.   So I decided to get out of the wind and wade.  I put on my wading boots but since is so shallow I keep my pants on.  Of course, my foot gets caught in the gunnel and I fall into the water.  Little did I know that the cell was in my pocket, so to date I have lost two cellphones to falling in water.  Even after all these years, I still haven't learned to take the time to do things properly (and I had my trunks).   But the fishing made up for it. 

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