Fishing report 6/26/11

Baron49 · June 27, 2011, 10:40:27 AM

Lake Ontario and the St. Lawrence river were a bit rough this cloudy Sunday morning so my partner and I decided to head to one of the smaller rivers that has held bass in the past. The main drawback to fishing some of these smaller rivers here in NY is there is a 5 MPH No Wake Zone the entire length. We decided to try it anyway.

We started fishing at the first main weed bed near the mouth of the river. My partner caught a small largemouth right off the bat on a fluke. I worked a buzz frog and did not get a single bit on it all day. Switched to a floating frog and caught several fish, but the activity level was way down compared to the bite my partner was having on tubes fished in the thickest weed clumps he could cast to. I switched over to an beaver and started catching fish on the inside weed edges along the rocky shore. All in all a good day my partner caught the most and the biggest (around 3 1/2 lbs) using a fluke, tube, and jig and pig. I caught several decent fish on the beaver as well as a couple nice bass on the floating frog.

For as cloudy and overcast a day it was strange to find the bass buried deep the the thickest weeds. The rain was light and spotty so we did not get soaked. We figured we covered several miles of the river fishing wood, rock, and weeds. The weeds clumps held the most and the biggest fish. The ride back to the ramp took about 55 minutes idling with the big engine all the way.

Mike Cork · June 27, 2011, 10:53:10 AM

5mph zone wow, well at least you don't have to deal with water skiers and jet skiers

Thanks for the report Baron.

Baron49 · June 27, 2011, 12:04:28 PM

Yea, none of those, but a bitch when you get passed by a canoe!

yar · June 27, 2011, 10:11:18 PM

baron, looks like you had a better day then i even wiht all of that idling. fished a tx and only caught 3 largies weighing only 3.65lb(lol) and i took 3rd

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Baron49 · June 28, 2011, 07:53:18 AM

Cashing a check is not a bad thing and even more satisfying when the fishing is tough Yar.

Mike Cork · June 28, 2011, 08:56:43 AM

Yar, was your event on this same river system? Congrats on 3rd

yar · June 28, 2011, 05:48:31 PM

mike, no my club was fishing swartswood lake in NJ. but i have been on some of th smaller rivers in the state and know what baron is talking about. I'll be putting up our clubs results soon in the our area on the site. oh talking about that, mike the link to this site is on our clubs web site

. so the word is out.

Mike Cork · June 29, 2011, 06:29:09 AM

Good deal thank you very much!