Not long now...

The days are getting shorter, the nights are getting cooler and most (sane) people are making plans to put the boat in storage for the year. I'm one of those guys, you know the guy that just waits on the leaves to change so I can switch a fishing pole for a gun or bow. I should still have a couple fishing trips in me yet, but I'm sure they will be separated by HUNTING.
OK so with that put out there, I ended up at Tippy lake this week. It was a pretty rough out there, really windy and pretty hard to find fish. This is the time of year that I hate fishing the smaller lakes. The lake really shows it's wear this time of year, with all the tore up it's really rare to not bring in seaweed with every cast. Anyway enough complaining, I didn't get skunked but it was close. I went to Tippy for the white bass and couldn't even hook a small one. I think someone's telling me I need to start hunting. I did catch a bass almost worthy of a picture and only got one to prove I was fishing this week.

 It really wasn't a cold day but with the wind, I kept this light hoodie on until I loaded the boat.
Next week hopefully pics of some doves, I might even take a pic of the cooked side of dove hunting. Mmmmmm, Wish me luck...

As of today.....

Last week I did go fishing for a couple hours, I caught some fish but nothing really worth taking a picture of. I did, however, save a life....

 This little guy hung on the whole time I was fishing. When I got back to the launch and loaded the boat, I was strapping the boat down and he was on the back of the kicker. I was going to put him on a nearby fence but he flew away on the way over.
This is how hectic my summer has been:
Today I had all intentions to get up and head to South Haven and see if I could get a king or two. So when I got home yesterday, I ate, set my alarm for 3am and headed to bed. I awoke at 6 in the morning, freaking out cause I was late for work until I realized it was a fishing day, not a workday. Then I was ticked cause I wasn't going fishing on fishing day. So I will get some stuff done around here, hopefully, work tomorrow and maybe go fishing after work for a couple hours.
But next week salmon fishing is on.... unless I go to Erie. I'm going to be trolling on a big lake somewhere.

Best intentions

I've been fighting a cold for the last couple of weeks. When I got up to go fishing at 3 am on Monday I felt terrible, so I went back to bed.... until noon. The same thing happened on Tuesday, on Wednesday I worked and today I feel pretty good. So even though I didn't get out this week I think it was time well spent. Next week.... boy next week I'm going to get 'em, I just can't decide where yet.

Couple hours for my biggest bass this year

Between the rain that was supposed to happen Mon and Tues and trying to get my extra day at work in, I wasn't sure when I would be able to get out and go fishing. As it turned out I worked on Wednesday morning and decided to go fishing after work. I went to a lake really close to the house, in fact, it's a lake I wanted to check out for duck season. It might be doable for duck season but I'm sure I'll go back to fish it again. It has alot of carp but also a pretty decent bass population.

This was my fist frog bass of the day

 It also has a surprising number of laydowns in the water which is where I hooked up with this guy.

He choked my frog so deep you can't even see it

This was the second bass on this plastic lure

Pretty good fishing for only a couple hours.