As I noted in my last post, the fish should be moving closer to the top and becoming more active as the water temp warms, and this weekend the air, water, and fishing were HOT, HOT, HOT! Mondays are my “Day Off” (it’s in quotes because I usually work harder on my days off then when I am at work), so Brian and I decided we would get up a little earlier than usual and hit cedar lake for about 8am to beat the midday heat.
We started the day working a few shaded rock piles and some treefilled shoreline with wacky rigged and texas rigged senkos, with nothing more than a few nibbles. Being that it was our first time fishing the AM this season I decided that spinnerbaits would be worth a shot since the senko approaxh was not producing. Brian took the initiative to rig up a 1/4 ounce double bladed white spinnerbait with a blue head, and got a fish on his second or third cast. He then caught a few more quick fish, which prompted me to make the change. I tried a white spinnerbait similar to his with exception of it having a yellow head. This produced nothing! A savvy switch to his identical spinnerbait style landed me 4 or 5 bass. Color was key yesterday…
Once the shade receeded and the water warmed up a few more degrees, the spinnerbait bite ended quickly. The slow down in strikes put us back into senko mode. Our focus now shifted to casting, flipping and skipping our plastic offerings under docks, pontoon boats, and anything else we could find that provided shade from the searing rays of the already toasty sun. This pattern turned out to be the key to success yesterday.
All in all we landed 40-50 fish with many over 2lbs, one in the 5+lb range:
and one topping out over 7lbs!!!
Of note we also had numerous long distance releases and 2 breakoffs. All in all a great day of fishing, and we even got a little tan!
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June 23rd, 2008 at 10:16 pm
[...] I have Monday’s off, Brian and I decided we would try to recreate the fantastic fishing experience that we had a couple of weeks ago when we fished the morning into the early afternoon. As it [...]
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