MultispeciesTamer;3055488; said:well me and my friend went down to the river today as it is the opening day of catch and release bass fishing. There was severe tunderstorm warnings for the day so i figgered we might catch a few but we wouldnt do great well I was wrong. So we fished the first spot for an hour i get board so i pull out my fun rod(an ice fishing pole) i set it up with a bobber and worm and started drift fishing it about 2 feet away from shore and 4 feet deep and oh course what do i hook of all thing a dang steelhead. That didn't end well the line broke during the first run. So i went and retied this time on my bass pole and a caught a nice 1 pound largie that was spawning up next to shore. Soon after I caught a bluegill. we moved to spot 2 and on the first cast I catch a nice 2 pound smallie. then comes the first storm so we hightail it back to the car and take of to spot 3. spot 3 is under a bridge which was out of the rain I caught a few more smallies like 2-3 or so. My budy still with none so I stopped and helped him (he had been fishing to fast) soon after he loses one up next to shore. a few cast later he gets one around 10 inchs. Oh all these smallies so far were caught on tube jigs. After a while we leave and go to another spot (4) across the river. We catch nothing so we move up river to spot 5. I now have on a rapala origianl floater gold and black about a 4-5 inch lure. On are way down some lady says they caught a 23 inch smallmouth the day before and that her son had caught a few walleye today and we talked to another guy who had caught a few steelhead. We started fishing and first cast i hook and have a steelhead throw me off a few cast later I got another smallie. we continued to fish as a nother storm came and passed over and poured rain fishing and catching smallies the whole time me and my budy. I even managed to snag a sucker and i hooked and lost my rapala on a 15 pound quillback carpsucker. so we fish around with some similar baits and keep catching smallies. the fishing started to slow so we headed back to spot 1 this time i catch 2 smallies one even jumped out of the water as i was lifting my lure out to recast. It was starting to get dark so we decided will save the rest for tomorrow.
hours fished 8
12:00-8:00 aprox
Fish caught 19 bass or 18
and 1 sucker
pics are on my friends phone and he has the computer hook up at his house so it might be a few days for pics


MultispeciesTamer;3055450; said:so how many keepers you up to now?




yeah i wont be able to go tomorrow untill after 6cichlid fiend;3055797; said:thats wats up!!
Keep me posted![]()
so we will see. They should still be bitting for at least a few more weeks untill they go out into the main river where i cant reach them from shore.well i came to temtation and i went again today I caught 5-7 bass with only 1 largie and the rest smallies I might get the pics tonight from yesterday but iam not for sure.MultispeciesTamer;3056648; said:yeah i wont be able to go tomorrow untill after 6so we will see. They should still be bitting for at least a few more weeks untill they go out into the main river where i cant reach them from shore.


