Amateur Bass Series Lake Koronis/Rice
Amateur Bass Series Lake Koronis/Rice
8/28/11
It is Friday night and Jerry Fist(hahaha) I mean Jenny Fisk I drove up to her dad's cabin on Lake Koronis, Tagging along on this trip is Spud and Nigel her awesome Pitbulls. We got settled in and crashed in hopes of getting an early start to our only day of prefishing, this didn't happen and when we made it to the landing it was full of trailers as there was a multi-species tournament going on, and the DNR was there and stopped and talked to Jen and I for about 10 minutes, what a cool nice guy. He told us about another small ramp on the other side of the lake and we went there and put in, I ran to a spot a fellow club member told me to try as he had won a tourney their before, we fished the heck out of this area to no avail and then I started running some of my areas after that to try and get a feel for what the fish might be doing. My first area we hit was not hopping either so we expanded farther down while Jen was throwing a Leena Lures buzzbait over the weedtops and as the weedline started to swing in close to shore out of nowhere I heard a huge splash and I turned my head to see Jen's rod doubled over and then a big smallmouth launched out of the water and when she finally got it close to the boat the fish jumped again and dang near landed in the back of the boat but I quickly slid the net underit lifted in a nice 3-1/4'lb smallmouth bass, as she lifted it out of the net a group of onlookers all started clapping and cheering for her, if you guys could have seen the smile on her face at that moment(priceless) thats what it's all about. Today's practice has been really tough going other than Jen's smallmouth and some small largemouth I caught, we were running out of time quickly so I decided to try some topwater frog fishing in the slop and right away I caught a fish of about 2'lb's or so and a bit later Jen had a huge boil on her frog, thats good though by not hooking it for the tournament. At the end of the slop I was caught off guard daydreaming or something and I had a fish blowup on my frog and I tried not to set the hook in hopes of the fish spitting it back out for tomorrow but it hooked itself and I reeled in a 3'lb bass and released it. Knowing this might be what we have to do tomorrow I got out of their and went to one more spot that has held some nice smallies in previous trips. After Jen caught a small largemouth on a spinnerbait I finally got a bite on a texas rigged tube and hammered the rod back and fought a nice 3+ lb smallmouth into the boat.
It is now tournament day and I am going to make this short, we did not have a good day compared to most of the other anglers. We tried everything we had and couldn't get but a couple of small largemouth and we spent allot of time doing it, I finally ended up doing something I don't like too do but when I need some fish quick I will go and fish docks, this is my own downfall since lots of guys will only fish docks and do great often. Anyways I started whacking fish left and right and we filled our limit of 6 fish and was even culling a bunch of times and Jen even caught a couple of the docks but they were small and didn't help. Time to go weigh-in and just as we got back to the launch it started to rain so we had to bundle up in the raingear for the weigh-in. I bagged up all of our fish, so I thought and brought them up to weigh and ended up only grabbing 5 of the 6 fish, most limits are 5 so it didn't even click until after I weighed them. Jen and I weighed a measly 11.44 pounds for 5 fish and 1st place had 24.48'lb's and their was a number of bags over 18lb's our 6th fish would not have mattered I did find out that all of the big bags came out of Rice lake, never even gave that an option oops. I was pissed with my performance and strapped down the boat and hurried up out of there to get back to the cabin. As I pulled onto the highway I immediately got pulled over by guess who? yep the same DNR officer and his partner, I was so upset with my day that I didn't make sure all of the weeds were cleaned of the trailer and I also forgot to pull my plug two big NO-NO's and as the officer was sternly talking to me and pointing out weeds to take off I noticed I also didn't open up my livewell valve to drain them. I sneakily turned the valve and more water started to come out the back of the boat and this guys partner asked me if I just drained my livewell and I said WHAT no thats from pulling my plug and the main officer told him the same thing(hehehe I'm so sneaky). Anyways they thankfully just wrote me up with warnings and let us go. Thank You to the DNR lesson learned and a big THANK YOU to Jen's dad for letting us use the cabin for the weekend I owe you a day of fishing if you want it.
8/28/11
It is Friday night and Jerry Fist(hahaha) I mean Jenny Fisk I drove up to her dad's cabin on Lake Koronis, Tagging along on this trip is Spud and Nigel her awesome Pitbulls. We got settled in and crashed in hopes of getting an early start to our only day of prefishing, this didn't happen and when we made it to the landing it was full of trailers as there was a multi-species tournament going on, and the DNR was there and stopped and talked to Jen and I for about 10 minutes, what a cool nice guy. He told us about another small ramp on the other side of the lake and we went there and put in, I ran to a spot a fellow club member told me to try as he had won a tourney their before, we fished the heck out of this area to no avail and then I started running some of my areas after that to try and get a feel for what the fish might be doing. My first area we hit was not hopping either so we expanded farther down while Jen was throwing a Leena Lures buzzbait over the weedtops and as the weedline started to swing in close to shore out of nowhere I heard a huge splash and I turned my head to see Jen's rod doubled over and then a big smallmouth launched out of the water and when she finally got it close to the boat the fish jumped again and dang near landed in the back of the boat but I quickly slid the net underit lifted in a nice 3-1/4'lb smallmouth bass, as she lifted it out of the net a group of onlookers all started clapping and cheering for her, if you guys could have seen the smile on her face at that moment(priceless) thats what it's all about. Today's practice has been really tough going other than Jen's smallmouth and some small largemouth I caught, we were running out of time quickly so I decided to try some topwater frog fishing in the slop and right away I caught a fish of about 2'lb's or so and a bit later Jen had a huge boil on her frog, thats good though by not hooking it for the tournament. At the end of the slop I was caught off guard daydreaming or something and I had a fish blowup on my frog and I tried not to set the hook in hopes of the fish spitting it back out for tomorrow but it hooked itself and I reeled in a 3'lb bass and released it. Knowing this might be what we have to do tomorrow I got out of their and went to one more spot that has held some nice smallies in previous trips. After Jen caught a small largemouth on a spinnerbait I finally got a bite on a texas rigged tube and hammered the rod back and fought a nice 3+ lb smallmouth into the boat.
It is now tournament day and I am going to make this short, we did not have a good day compared to most of the other anglers. We tried everything we had and couldn't get but a couple of small largemouth and we spent allot of time doing it, I finally ended up doing something I don't like too do but when I need some fish quick I will go and fish docks, this is my own downfall since lots of guys will only fish docks and do great often. Anyways I started whacking fish left and right and we filled our limit of 6 fish and was even culling a bunch of times and Jen even caught a couple of the docks but they were small and didn't help. Time to go weigh-in and just as we got back to the launch it started to rain so we had to bundle up in the raingear for the weigh-in. I bagged up all of our fish, so I thought and brought them up to weigh and ended up only grabbing 5 of the 6 fish, most limits are 5 so it didn't even click until after I weighed them. Jen and I weighed a measly 11.44 pounds for 5 fish and 1st place had 24.48'lb's and their was a number of bags over 18lb's our 6th fish would not have mattered I did find out that all of the big bags came out of Rice lake, never even gave that an option oops. I was pissed with my performance and strapped down the boat and hurried up out of there to get back to the cabin. As I pulled onto the highway I immediately got pulled over by guess who? yep the same DNR officer and his partner, I was so upset with my day that I didn't make sure all of the weeds were cleaned of the trailer and I also forgot to pull my plug two big NO-NO's and as the officer was sternly talking to me and pointing out weeds to take off I noticed I also didn't open up my livewell valve to drain them. I sneakily turned the valve and more water started to come out the back of the boat and this guys partner asked me if I just drained my livewell and I said WHAT no thats from pulling my plug and the main officer told him the same thing(hehehe I'm so sneaky). Anyways they thankfully just wrote me up with warnings and let us go. Thank You to the DNR lesson learned and a big THANK YOU to Jen's dad for letting us use the cabin for the weekend I owe you a day of fishing if you want it.
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