On a boat in New York - June 9 2013

[MichaelAngelo]

Josh, fishfight, was generous enough to take me along on his boat as we ventured off for bass in the state of New York. The fishing was tough and slow. We did grind out a few fish.

Josh's first fish came on a spoon, worked close to the bottom. We could see nesting bass, but of course they weren't interested in hitting. We were looking for the post-spawners.

My first fish came on a dropshotted green/grey plastic. A nice 2lb bass that I noted that it was barely hooked in the corner of the mouth. I played it to the boat ever so gingerly.

Then our other fishing partner grabbed my line in an attempt to bring it to the boat quicker... I yelled "DON'T GRAB THE LINE" but he kept grabbing the line. Of course the hook ripped out. I was very upset so say the least.

We fished on, sticking to our guns. Josh ran the spoon and I ran the dropshot. I got my PB smallmouth bass in 2 FOW on a dropshotted green/black tube:




And josh got another fish on a bucktail he tied himself.


We kept fishing hard and we spotted over 8 muskie in the 40"+ trophy range. We tried for them, but none were remotely interested in following anything . Damn you muskie!

Near the end of the day I was running a Mepps size 3 spinner through the shallows and noticed a long fish take it... I got so excited, thinking I had hooked one of the ever-present muskie.

Getting it boatside was a little disappointing! Just a pike LOL!





No wire leader boys... I got lucky to catch the pike near the outside of the mouth such that the spinner's core wire separated my line from the teeth . I did not measure it, but it is definitely my personal best pike. I don't catch many of THOSE lol

So there I had it... a VERY tough day of fishing. 2 landed fish and each one was a personal best.

What I learned from that day: keep casting different things until your arms just about fall off.