The first stop on this years Molson Mercury Bass Tour is the Grand Falls Flowage on the border with the State of Maine. This event is sponsored by Shimano Canada and Advatek Scales. My son drove up from Moncton to fish this one with me. With the trickle start you don’t always get the spot you want even if you are driving a faster boat and that was the case this morning. We almost caught the guys but didn’t quite make it. We stopped on a back up spot and went fishing. Second cast on a Blue Fox in-line spinner put a chunky 3 lb. smallmouth in the boat. Not to bad for a second choice. We fished here for about an hour and a half and alternated with Blue Fox, Husky Jerks and Pointers and got a few fish on each of them. The guys who had been on the spot we wanted left and we moved up. It was worth a try with a different presentation but they didn’t miss anything.
We left and moved out to a new area and caught about a dozen more fish but none were big enough to help us out. It took us about an hour to work this area then we went back to where we started. After fifteen minutes with no bites we took off. Two of the guys that stayed there all day told me the fish flooded into the area about ten minutes after we left. Go figure.
We ran over to the US side and tried a big cove that has fished early in the past but it was the same story. Caught some fish but none big enough to help. The next two spots we fished didn’t produce anything at all and we started working our way back towards the Canadian side. Our last stop had some current running by it and we caught five fish in the last ten minutes of our day. One of them helped move our weight up a bit. We ended up in eighth place for the day.
Most of the fish we caught today came on a silver #3 Blue Fox spinner fished slowly. We were using 6’6 Medium Crucial Rods, 2500 Stradic reels and 8 lbs Suffix Seige Green monofilament line. For the Husky Jerks and Pointers I was using a 6’3″ Crucial Rod, 2500 Stradic and 15 lb. Power Pro.
Forgot the camera so no pics today
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