Took my dad and 6 year old son out fishing for the day. Started of kind of cold with a North wind blowing right down the Raisin River as we trolled upstream. First troll landed my dad a decent walleye on a small spinnerbait, was about 14 inches in length. Kept that one for the table. Hok a couple smallies on the troll, nowhere near the sizes I've seen in there in the past, still great fighters.
Headed back to my pike / largemouth bass hotspot. Started off catching lots of bass on a Rapala J-11. My son was using a bobber and worm combination, after catching a couple sunfish, he started slamming the bass one after the other. They got so agressive that they started hitting his bobber as well.
I decided to tie on a large Jitterbug, it really drove them nuts. They were on fire, hitting it one after the other, even swallowing it at times.
Still no pike in sight, I decided upsize to a 5 inch Zara Spook. Now that bass were going beserk on the spook but it was too big for them to take down. After a couple of casts I hooked a really nice one, tuned out to weigh 4 lbs even, measured 18 inches. By far the biggest Largemouth I've ever caught on a lure, all other hawgs I caught usually hit live bait. Just seeing my big Spook in it's bucket mouth brought us some mandatory laughs. I released it in good health after a couple quick pics.
Decided to troll the rest of the afternoon for pike / walleye, all we caught was another bass, and some perch and rock bass.
Strangely enough the big pike are nowhere to be found so far this season, all we've managed were some "dinks" in the 1-3 lb range. After the success we've had with them in both the Raisin and St Lawrence rivers over the past couple years, I was really hoping to hook into a few big ones. By contrast, the largemouth bass are on fire this year, even though we're not specifically targeting them. I'm already pushing the 100 bass mark and the season doesn't open for another month or so. Talk about incidental luck.
Headed back to my pike / largemouth bass hotspot. Started off catching lots of bass on a Rapala J-11. My son was using a bobber and worm combination, after catching a couple sunfish, he started slamming the bass one after the other. They got so agressive that they started hitting his bobber as well.
I decided to tie on a large Jitterbug, it really drove them nuts. They were on fire, hitting it one after the other, even swallowing it at times.
Still no pike in sight, I decided upsize to a 5 inch Zara Spook. Now that bass were going beserk on the spook but it was too big for them to take down. After a couple of casts I hooked a really nice one, tuned out to weigh 4 lbs even, measured 18 inches. By far the biggest Largemouth I've ever caught on a lure, all other hawgs I caught usually hit live bait. Just seeing my big Spook in it's bucket mouth brought us some mandatory laughs. I released it in good health after a couple quick pics.
Decided to troll the rest of the afternoon for pike / walleye, all we caught was another bass, and some perch and rock bass.
Strangely enough the big pike are nowhere to be found so far this season, all we've managed were some "dinks" in the 1-3 lb range. After the success we've had with them in both the Raisin and St Lawrence rivers over the past couple years, I was really hoping to hook into a few big ones. By contrast, the largemouth bass are on fire this year, even though we're not specifically targeting them. I'm already pushing the 100 bass mark and the season doesn't open for another month or so. Talk about incidental luck.
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