Sorry for the late report. I hit Long last Thursday afternoon/evening. The fishing was a bit slow at first, we just had a cold front blow through the day before. First rain in over a month. I started out hitting docks with an unweighted senko. Picked up a few dinks and a squawfish on a shallow running crankbait. The wind started picking up so I moved to an area of lillypads that were out of the wind. I began throwing a white zoom horny toad across the pads. Fished for a few minutes with no action. Then I saw some fry jumping out of the water on the inside edge of the pads, threw the toad over, twitched it a couple of times and had a fish clobber the bait. Set the hook and started to try and drag the fish out of the weeds. Figured it was a largemouth, which it was, it just turned out to be bigger than I anticipated about 4lbs.

Didn't get anymore action in the pads so I moved back to some docks hoping for some topwater action before dark. Had a couple of half-hearted hits on a skitter pop so I swithed to a new rapala clacking slash bait I bought early in the year but hadn't used yet. Best idea I had all day, the smallies didn't want to hit anything on the surface but they were all over that slashbait. Worked on the outer edge of the weeds/river channel. Ended up catching 10 smallies, several around 2lbs, the biggest was 3 1/2lbs, a perch and another squawfish. Both squaws gallantly gave up their lives to feed the local Ospreys.

Water temp: 71
Crankbait: perch slash bait
Senko: black/blue

MS

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