The freezing cold prefish paid off for us this weekend. The fishing was still on the slow side and our first spot didn’t produce any fish. I had two faint harded hits on a Husky Jerk but they didn’t hook up. The water is still only in the mid forties and these fish are definitely sluggis.
We moved into our second spot and it seemed like it was going to be a repeat and then I spotted a big fish come up behind Phil’s bait. He did everything he could to entice a strike but with the wind blowing the boat around the fish spooked and took off. We were in the dumps big time because it looked like a monster bass. We decided to camp out there for a while. I got a high two for our first fish and then Phil hooked up with a good one. We figured she was a big three or low four and put her in the well. It wasn’t until four o’clock when we took the fish out of the livewell that we realized how big it really was. We had been culling fish in the three pound range and this one dwarfed them all. She topped the scales at 4.6 lbs and earned us a lunker cheque.
Some of our normal spots didn’t fish this year and we had to move around and adjust a bit to get them. All of our fish came of jerk baits and I spent the day alternating between an HJ12 Husky Jerk and a Pointer 100. Phil spent most of his day on the big Pointer 128. We probably put twenty fish in the boat in the run of the day for a first place weight of just over 16lbs.
We were both using Shimano Crucial rods. I was using 2500 Stradics with 8lb Suffix Seige green mono and Phil was using Shimano Stellas with Power Pro.
Now we are off to get ready for the Molson Mercury Bass Tour qualifier that will be on the Flowage next week. See you on the water.
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