Local lakes again : (

Went to Tippy and Max again this week, nothing to report at Tippy but had a pretty good day at Max.
I caught largemouth,smallmouth, and a walleye not necessarily in that order. While on the way to and from the lakes I saw a coyote, a hen turkey with 5 poults, and at least 3 fawns.

Rough on the Big Lake so stayed close to home

I went to Big Cedar and did some trolling for trout yesterday, ended up catching 2 bass and a really nice sunfish.

You really can't see it but that is a regular size flicker shad, not a small version. Anyway I stayed on Cedar until 1pm when the speed limit is lifted and they came out to tear it up. The cool thing is there is 3 lakes in this chain so I just moved down to the next lake and started fishing for bass. I caught a few but nothing of size so I went to the last lake which is Round lake. I actually caught my biggest bass of the day on this lake I wish I had taken a pic. Once I made it back to the boat launch I put my boat on the trailer and went 5 mins. to get to Shriner lake. This was the last lake of the day. I did catch quite a few bass here but again nothing with any size. So at dusk I packed 'er up and headed to the house.

Another double lake day

I've really been trying to get up to the big lake, but the reports have been really scarce. Without reports on how people are doing I find it kinda hard to just run up and drop lines. I try to have a game plan when I go up, with at the very least a starting depth and lure color.
Anyway I went to Max and Tippy yesterday, once again I caught fish but didn't really get into 'em.
I started at Max because it's the furthest lake. I got started at day break with the hopes of being able to look for my lure. Even though you could see 2 feet it needs to be just a little clearer. Anyway, these are the fish I caught: smallmouth,rock bass, perch, walleye, largemouth. The walleye was too small and I had to throw it back.

 Once the speed demons came out and I went for a swim it was time to move on. So I packed up and headed to Tippy for some white bass action. When I got there I couldn't believe all the eel grass in the water. It was everywhere and soo thick I could barely make a retrieve without getting some on my lure. Even with the floating headaches everywhere I did manage to catch a couple fish including this white bass.

This bass wasn't the only one I saw but it was the only one I got to the boat. I had many chase my lure all the way to the boat but didn't bite. So I tried changing size and colors, nothing seemed to work.
All in all had a pretty good day.

2 lake bass bustin day

Did I mention hot I mean wow was it hot and humid. I think it must have hit in high 250 degrees yesterday but the heat didn't deter me from my mission. Since the silver has been hard to for everyone to find on the big lake I decided to hit a couple local lakes.
The first lake was Blue lake, even though this lake is really close to a smaller town the bass are really nice sized and fairly plentiful. The reason I picked the lakes I did was because they have plenty of lily pads. That being said I threw a frog almost all day, love to watch 'em smash that frog.

 This guy was a pretty decent fish, he had a weird sore by the upper side of his gill plate but that didn't seem to bother him.
The second lake was Crooked lake which is the same lake my buddy has his cabin on. I put in there and started fishing all the pads around the launch. Without much happening there I ran down to the opposite end of the lake and went into Penny lake. I threw all around that lake and finally on the way out this little bass choked the frog.

The funny thing about my time on this lake was I actually had a bullfrog try to eat my frog. I cast to him 10-15x's and he would chase it and try to eat it. I set the hook on him a couple times but couldn't get him to stick. If I could have we would be eating frog legs tonite.
After I caught this guy I headed out of Penny and motored over to my buddies swim raft, tied the boat to it and went for a swim. WOW did that feel good, the bad news was that after only 15 minutes of being out of the water I was starting to sweat already.
On the way out I hit the pads by the ramp and heard alot of birds squawking. When I turned to look I saw one of the birds had been forced into the water. I went over netted him, got him into the boat, dried him a little bit and released him in the boat. Within a couple minutes he was dry enough to fly off.

Another honorable mention bass was the last one I caught. In the back of the channel I once again had a bullfrog try to get my frog so I cast to him and while on the retrieve this bass smacked my frog.

Something was stinking up Lake Michigan this week

Do you know what it was???
Yep it was the skunk on my boat, I could not get rid of it no matter what I did. I got to the lake around 6 in the am and trolled until 7 in the pm, only to come home with a clean cooler.

Just a shame, I didn't have a release all day. On the up side I did have really nice weather all day. Not too hot, partly cloudy, and mostly 1 ft or less for wave height. Nothing broke and everything worked as it should (except the fish) so I must say I had a relaxing day.

After I got the boat buttoned up to go home I had just left the Marina and saw this:

This is the most colorful Turkey I have ever seen, I can't wait for Turkey season next year.