Thread: One Gill , a few bass

My fishing buddy and I fished a different lake today and still can’t catch any gills .
I caught one small bluegill , hooked several tiny LM that threw the jig every time, a couple of small bass , and one nice one around 3 lbs that gave my 6’ St Croix Panfish rod a workout.
I love catching them this size on an ultralight spinner .
The ramp at the reservoir was super shallow which made launching and especially loading my little 14x36 Alumacraft a pain .
Red wasps were swarming the dock . Luckily neither of use got stung .
I won’t be going back .
Except for the lack of fish , it was a beautiful day on the lake , and I enjoyed casting jigs around on my Ultralights.

Nice pictures, I bet that chunkster in the bottom picture was a blast on the UL ! Congrats !

Nice catches!

Good catches, Bass can test the UL equipment for sure.


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Pretty looking piece of water. Yeah, I hate to get the smallies returning my lures via airmail, but it sure gets the heart going!
Bob

Fun and excitement. Glad you avoided the wasp

Beautiful day on the water, congratulations

It was a beautiful day on the water .
The bass saved the day .
We’ve fished three different lakes now and I’m stumped as to where the gills are .
I have an 10 year old inexpensive fish finder ( actually has gps and temp too ) that has a fish alarm that I keep on at all times .
When I was regularly fishing before Covid , I sometimes had to turn the alarm off because it became annoying it beeped so much .
Now , I hear a beep less than ten times the entire time time out on the water . This is running the banks , running the creek channels , and even running over deep holes . A single beep only occasionally.
Where have all the fish gone ?
Have all of my waters been that overfished ?
Or is it the time of the year ?
I’ve been fishing most of my 70+ years and always thought fall was a great time to be on the water . I used to prefer it over spring.
BTW , water temp yesterday hovered around 70 degrees yesterday, which should be perfect for the fish .
I may have to switch over to focusing on bass , which seems to be the only thing that wants to cooperate.

I just really loathe them big red wasps , will just sting the fire out a ya for no apparent reason , that poor attitude is just not a good thing .
one buzzed my head the other day and it was his last day to do that bad attitude kinda stuff ...