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Thornapple Lake fishing report-9/27/2015
Just bought a second boat a few days ago (off topic thread/second boat) todays seemed like a nice day to go fishing but my wife had a very sore foot and suggested I call on a old fishing buddy to spend the day with. Tom and I have fished together for about 15 years and he is a wealth of knowledge. I called him up and he said he'd be able to get away to go.
We got to the launch site around noon and began tossing weedless rigs, good thing because there is a lot of slop and anything other than a weedless rig and you are just cleaning hooks on every cast.
Things were slow, Tom caught a 12" about a hour into the trip, then a 18"northen another hour after that....yours truly had not even a hit......wondering what I'm doing wrong, maybe should have stayed home and tilled the garden or cleaned out the shop. Called the Mrs. and told her I'd be home about 30 minutes, fish weren't biting (5:00 pm) and I'd grill some burgers. Before she could say ok, I had my first fish on. I quickly hung up and landed my first largemouth, Tom had one on too! I quickly texted her and said "be home later....bite on!" she texted back "Stay! Continue fishing"!
So for another hour or so, the bite was on....and then it was over!
Fishing was along the shoreline next to the weeds, probably 6 feet or shallower, used a #4 Gamatsu (?) hook and Gary Yamamoto plastic in olive shad color.
Tom landed the biggest a 17", all tallied up Tom caught 7 largemouth bass, 1 northern (18") I caught 6 largemouth bass..... had a blast!
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