Lake Pokegama
Well I am not sure what to expect today here on Lake Pokegama in Grand Rapids,with no prefishing at all. I am filled with anticapation because this lake can be great and usually is, well today I am fishing with Steve Walker and hopefully he is a good luck charm like last year when I won on Lake Alexander 
. I decided to start on a mainlake area that I have done well on topwater early before,I picked up my rod with a super spook jr. tied on and fired out a long cast and started walking the bait back in and BAM a smallmouth fly's up and gets it and I have put Steve to work early with the net as he lands a 2 pounder for me but that was all that fish must have been retarded because smallies school almost all the time. As we moved down farther along the weedline I caught two keeper largemouth's but they were not very big by any means and the sun was gettiing pretty bright out and shut the topwater bite down so we moved to another spot that I knew had some really good cabbage out on a small point and Steve caught his first fish a largemouth and it was about 2-1/4 lb's and then he caught another nice largemouth and I filled out my limit but this spot was not producing enough action so we moved again and started fishing a weedline I have caught a couple of big largies off of and as I was working my way down the weedline my good friend Chris Asbeck pulled up aways down the weedline and started whacking fish left and right, he is lucky he found that exact spot in practice because I was working my way there unknowing it was loaded up with fish. I left when we got some what close and went to an area and it didn't look right the weeds were gone so we didn't stay long and then went to a spot I always fish and we both caught some fish, Steve caught only quality largemouths i don't think he caught a small one all day and I had two dinks to cull yet,as we were moving closer to the island off the weed point we were fishing alot more rock was apparent and I picked up a Secret Lures MVP jig in a pb&j color and fired it out and almost imediatly got rocked hard andslammed the hook home into a big smallmouth that Steve and I both thought would have went 4 pounds easy, I then threw out a football jig to come through the rocks better and I got tapped right away and caught a small smallie that did not help. I could not get bit for about ten minutes so for a joke I told Steve I was going to throw my spook under the bluebird skies and on my third cast a big smallmouth jumped completly over it,about 3-1/2 pounds boy did I need that fish. Well we went and tried some frog fishing for the last hour or so to try and pick up some kicker fish but we didn't even get a blow up. So know it's weigh in time and Steve weighed in 8.89 and came in 7th place and I weighed in 9.39 and came in 5th it was really tough out there with the rain and storms and wind the days prior but some one always seems to find them and that was Steve(Ozzy)Oswald who landed 14.26 lb's of fish four were smallmouth and one runt of a largemouth. Great job Ozzy oh yeah my buddy Chris took second with 12.67 lb's of largemouth
. I decided to start on a mainlake area that I have done well on topwater early before,I picked up my rod with a super spook jr. tied on and fired out a long cast and started walking the bait back in and BAM a smallmouth fly's up and gets it and I have put Steve to work early with the net as he lands a 2 pounder for me but that was all that fish must have been retarded because smallies school almost all the time. As we moved down farther along the weedline I caught two keeper largemouth's but they were not very big by any means and the sun was gettiing pretty bright out and shut the topwater bite down so we moved to another spot that I knew had some really good cabbage out on a small point and Steve caught his first fish a largemouth and it was about 2-1/4 lb's and then he caught another nice largemouth and I filled out my limit but this spot was not producing enough action so we moved again and started fishing a weedline I have caught a couple of big largies off of and as I was working my way down the weedline my good friend Chris Asbeck pulled up aways down the weedline and started whacking fish left and right, he is lucky he found that exact spot in practice because I was working my way there unknowing it was loaded up with fish. I left when we got some what close and went to an area and it didn't look right the weeds were gone so we didn't stay long and then went to a spot I always fish and we both caught some fish, Steve caught only quality largemouths i don't think he caught a small one all day and I had two dinks to cull yet,as we were moving closer to the island off the weed point we were fishing alot more rock was apparent and I picked up a Secret Lures MVP jig in a pb&j color and fired it out and almost imediatly got rocked hard andslammed the hook home into a big smallmouth that Steve and I both thought would have went 4 pounds easy, I then threw out a football jig to come through the rocks better and I got tapped right away and caught a small smallie that did not help. I could not get bit for about ten minutes so for a joke I told Steve I was going to throw my spook under the bluebird skies and on my third cast a big smallmouth jumped completly over it,about 3-1/2 pounds boy did I need that fish. Well we went and tried some frog fishing for the last hour or so to try and pick up some kicker fish but we didn't even get a blow up. So know it's weigh in time and Steve weighed in 8.89 and came in 7th place and I weighed in 9.39 and came in 5th it was really tough out there with the rain and storms and wind the days prior but some one always seems to find them and that was Steve(Ozzy)Oswald who landed 14.26 lb's of fish four were smallmouth and one runt of a largemouth. Great job Ozzy oh yeah my buddy Chris took second with 12.67 lb's of largemouth
So it sounds like you are all tuned in for State. You going up this year?
I got a tournament on Tonka this weekend and things have been pretty slow. You been out there? Got any tips to pass on?
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