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Mid-Morning Bass Fishing Success. Docks are the Key! Cedar Lake August, 17th 2008

admin — Wed, 20 Aug 2008 02:06:25 +0000

After struggling to find fish the last few times out on the lake in the normal places, I turned to a different strategy yesterday morning. Instead of fishing the usual rockpiles, and submerged weed beds that have been productive all year, we started fishing the shaded side of the numerous docks lining the lake shore. We started fishing around 8:30am throwing spinnerbaits along the east side of the lake since there was not a cloud in the sky and there was still a little shade to be found from the trees on the east. We did that for about 30-40 minutes and only landed 2 fish. I had a nice smallmouth (~2lbs) and Brian got a 2lb largemouth. He was throwing white, and I had a white and yellow tied on.

After minimal success we decided to try the docks on the west side of the lake since we hadn’t fished them in quite some time, and it turned out to be a good move. We landed another 10 fish on senkos from under the docks… The fishing wasn’t easy though since the fish were suspended way under the docks and pontoons boats requiring an accurately skipped bait under the docks. The recent rain made this even more difficult since the water levels were up a foot or so from last week.

Most fish that we landed were decent quality in the 2+ lb range and one monster topping out at around 6lbs.

Here’s a few shots of this chunky hog.

That is one fat bass… Especially for the end of summer!

Hopefully this pattern will hold up until the next time I have a few hours to spend on the lake. It has been cold at night lately so I would imagine the fish won’t stay on the docks for too long. If you are fishing this weekend, give the docks a try and you might very well land yourself a trophy! In case you were wondering, this fish was released unharmed to fight another day.

Big Heatwave Provides Fantastic Fishing Fun June 9th 2008

admin — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 17:06:32 +0000

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!