July 27th, 2010
July has been great on Hortonia, however the lake association has applied it second application to kill the milfoil. It appears to be working much to my displeasure. The milfoil powderizes as you run a trolling motor through it. I have still been able to pull some nice largemouths and a few samller pike out of the thicker weeds. Many fish are being caught in open water between the larger weed clumps 6 to 10 ft. Some of the sharper drops are producing some very decent largemouths in the 12 to 15 foot range. The surface water temp varies from 78 to 82, even warmer in the shallower water.
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July 6th, 2010
I took a quick trip over ot a very small lake with Matt a junior angler who can catch fish. The lake is a small lake ringed with milfoil. we figured we would chew the lake up in short order. It was a hot sunny day, water temp was 73. we started fishing the deeper edges of the milfoil and work out way in to shallow then back to the deeper edges, we caught a few fish but nothing significant. As the morning progressed we found large concentraction of 2 1/2 lb to 3lb largmeouths in 6 to 8 feet in the very thick milfoil and the taper weeds mixed with cabbage leaf weeds. We flipped jigs and creature baits. I fished heavy jigs, Matt fished light weights. End of the day we had just over 20 LMB and 4 pike. it was a fun day on lake neither of us had ever fished.
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June 29th, 2010
Fished northern champlain for a few hours for Pike and then shifted to largemouth bass. Pike were cruising the shallows in 4 to 6 feet, then we moved to a hump with scattered milfoil. The pike were more active on the hump due to the bait fish activity. Caught 10 northern pike and 1 large pickerel. Had a huge Bowfin come up after my clients chatterbait but did not get hooked. All pike came on a chartruese and white chatterbait. Shifting to largemouth we fished stick worms-(green pumpkin) and flukes-(white/silver) through the milfoil, caught 23 bass, largest being just shy of 3 lbs. Weather was a bit breezy with sunny skies. Water temp 72 degrees. Watch a bowfin attack and injure a large sunfish. The sunny floated to the surface where the bowfin made a vicious attack and swam off with the large sunfish in its mouth.
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June 14th, 2010
The lake was surprisingly busy over the weekend with bass fisherman, looked like a small club tournament was going on. I noticed that everyone was bank fishing. I spent the two days fishing deeper. I found plenty of good size largemouths in 9 to 12 feet of water on drops and around large weed clumps. Large northern pike were also mixed with the bass. I had fished jig and pigs, and stick worms. Majority of the better fish came on Jigs, smaller fish on the stick worms. Best 5 fish on Saturday was 17 lbs, Sunday easy 15lbs, all same size fish, no huge lunkers in either bag. Pike were aggressive, the best 5 pike ranged from 10 to 12 lbs over the weekend. Total fish for the 2 days was 38 bass, 12 northern pike. Lake conditions may come to a change soon as the lake is being treated for milfoil; Hortonia will be closed on June 21st for the application. Just for the record- I am 100% against such treatment on this lake.
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June 8th, 2010
Went out in heavy rain on Sunday witha young lady ( 13yrs old) to have her catch some pike and bass. She fished hard with a chrome and black rattle trap. Fishing from 6 to 14 feet, she caught 10 pike and 8 Largemouth bass. Larger pike was 6 lbs, largest bass was 3lbs. Despite the cold front a very successful day in the rain. By the end of the day there was no more chrome left on the rattletrap!!
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June 8th, 2010
In May I went up to the St Lawrence and St Regis on the Mohawk Reservation. We caught over 40 pike on rattle bugs (chatterbaits). We fished feeder creeks and feeder bays off the main river. Swim baits also produced in shad color. Largemouth Bass were mixed in with the Pike, holding tighter to cover-cover being reeds and Tules. Pike were out away from the bank in reeds and scatter milfoil-cruising the creek channels.
Smallmouth bass were plentiful in the moving water of the St Regis River. Smallies were hitting nearly anything you threw at them. Buzz baits and top water baits provide some exciting action. Pink stick works, bitsy bugs and brush hogs produced quite well. Fish were moving from spawn to post spawn. A few fish were still on beds, but the majority had all ready spawned out.
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June 8th, 2010
June On Lake George was incredible, spent 4 days fishing caught over 100 fish each day. water temp varied from 68 to 72 degrees depending where you fished. Soft plastic tubes in water from 1 foot to 12 feet were producing, fished on a 1/8 oz to a 1/4 oz lead head. Many small fish, largest fish were two 4lb+ LMB, one 5 1/2lb LMB, 8lb Pike, many 2lb SMB & LMB
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May 3rd, 2010
Shot over to Champlain, Launched at South Bay. Water temp varied from 54 to 61 degrees. Found largemouth staged in 8 feet in the mouths of entrances to back water bays and culverts.Threw crank baits caught 5 chunky largemouths. Moved into shallow water and caught a lot of small largemouths, one smallmouth about 2lbs. Fished the tree line, stumps that lined the start of a large flat, caught some nice chunks on a chatterbug and soft jerk baits. Overall 23 fish
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April 5th, 2010
Took the morning off from chores to catch some slab blue gills on Bomoseen. The day was a beautiful blue bird day, slight breeze, water temp was 48 degrees, air temp was 62 degrees. I decided to drfit over some old weedbeds in 6 to 8 ft of water. Fishing wax worms on a slip bobber. A charteuse jig head worked better than the black and yellow head. I fished for 2 hours and brought home 16 slab blue gills. Made for a mighty fine lunch. In additon to the blue gills kept and lot of smaller ones bit as well as a few small largemouths.
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February 16th, 2010
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