It was a bit breezy as Ron launched Sunday morning at Tecumseh, with plans to fish Crystal Lake. Because the lake was nice and well-protected, he stayed on the water for five hours but only caught one measly chain pickerel. Had a bunch of misses, too.
Meanwhile, hie friend caught a 2-2 and a 1-13 bass on a Whopper Plopper.
Said Ron, "The trip back into the wind was tough. With a nice water level (gauge was up to 1.6), though, the peddles helped me make it back to the launch."
This morning, then, Ron tried Horn Point from 0630 to 0830. It wasn't long before the wind picked up and made fishing impossible.
As he explained, "The line with my Senko was just bowing in the wind and moving the worm
where I didn't want it.
"Before conditions got too bad, though," Ron continued, "I managed a 1-11 (pictured here), a 1-5, and a 12-oz. dink on the Whopper Plopper."
Ron described the water this morning as "very murky, and the chop and wind on the way back made for a
wild ride." He found two other kayakers out there who had caught a couple each, using topwater frogs
and spinnerbaits.
"What a difference 7 hours make!" That's the new tune Ron is singing as a result of his trip this evening to Beggar's Bridge. "Wind had died down completely," he said. "Temp was
perfect, gauge was reading 1.5 at 1500, so I headed back out. Launched about 4 p.m. The water was low, but the bite was HOT!" he exclaimed.
Throwing only the Whopper Plopper, Ron proceeded to catch 21 bass and a 22-inch chain pickerel (see left). The bass included 11 dinks (some very close to a pound), along with a 1-0, 1-1, two 1-3s, 1-4, 1-9, 1-10, 1-14, 1-15, and a sweet 3-10 (pictured above). "Had to recalibrate my bass thumb, too," he said.
His only disappointment: He couldn't
find a bowfin. And he missed about 10 fish, but that was very minor, considering how many he boated. "Funny how the misses don't bother you when
the bite is so good," he concluded.
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