Hit Long Lake early this morning for some largemouth action. Launched around 6 and stayed until about 1pm. It was nice and calm early and I was alone on the lake for a couple hours until the skiers came out. The wind started picking up and the ski boats were churning the water by 9, so I pretty much stuck to the south end of the lake in the lily pads. Water temp started at 60 and warmed up to around 66 by the time I left. I only got two bites that I know of, and I caught both of them. The first came around 11am on a weightless black Zoom trick worm cast right up against a dock in about 2 feet of water. I was casting it on a spinning rig with only 8lb line, so I fought her for a good couple minutes while she stripped drag and ran back up under the dock. Finally got her to the boat and weighed her on my Boga Grip--a solid 4lb 6oz, healthy female, immediately released. The second came out of the pads a couple hundred feet away, flipping a T-rig green pumpkin Sweet Beaver, and weighed about a pound and half. Not a bad morning, but it did take me five hours just to get a bite. Gotta fish Long early in the season though, before the weeds take over the lake.

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