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Weather: Sunny & Warm 80*
Water Temp: 73-78*
Bait(s): Rattletrap

BETHEL, NY -- My buddy Bill & I originally planned on fishing White Lake but thought we'd probably not have a great time with all the boat traffic so Bill knew of a lake just down the road that only allows electric motors -- Lake Superior. I'd like to see a jet skier try to do their thing with an electric motor so that basically meant we'd have NO boat traffic.

We arrive a little later than planned and were in the water by 10am, yes we missed the early morning bite! This lake was brand new to us so we started fishing the shoreline immediately adjacent to the boat dock. The shoreline was very shallow (less than 5ft) out about 200 yards from the shoreline so we seemed to be fishing really far from land but it was only 5-8ft deep and that's were we found the fish.

This puppy came in at 4lbs...



We tried fishing plastic worms, spinnerbaits and a few other options but as we searched for our first fish we found we could only hook into fish using the rattletrap. Within two hours of being on the water we landed 2 bass & 1 pickerel. It was a struggle to find fish on a new lake but we had fun with it, check out our silly video of us making the best of the worst of conditions...

Lake Superior

We decided to call it a day by 3pm with only three fish in the boat because (1) the fishing was tough; no motivation to stay and (2) the wind started picking up so that was frustrating in itself. We agreed the early morning bit is best so we probably will get back to our routine of being out at 6am and done by noon.

Weather: 78*
Water Temp: 78*
Bait(s): Senko & Power Worm

SYLVAN LAKE, NY -- Went to Sylvan lake with my buddy Bill launching at 6:30am. We began tossing some top water lures that produced a blow up but no hook ups. Weeds were looking good and plentiful so we tossed some soft baits into the weed lines and about 8am Bill was rewarded with a fish that was about 3lbs. It was a nice fight and Bill thought he wasn't going to get the fish in the boat. :o)



After this fish we fished hard to find more fish. The sun was fully up and we tried everything from cranks, top water and plastics. We continued to fish the weed edges in 15FT of water were there was a quick transition to about 6-8FT of water. We found 3 other fish on senkos and power worms before we ended the day at about 11AM. Really not much to our report today other than Bill had the biggest fish today and out did me in weight. A deserved grand day for Bill today for sure. I didn't think we'd find only four fish today; tough day for sure.

Weather: 83*
Water Temp: 76-79*
Bait(s): Senko, Hula Grub, Popper

CARMEL, NY -- Got out with Bill again this weekend for the second weekend in a row for some more bass action. We arrived at Canopus at 6AM sharp and began preparing to launch the boat. We were in the water within 15 mins and started fishing the small island near the boat launch with no bites. Less than half-hour on the water I caught our first fish of the day which got us excited and looking forward to a great day.

Here I was showing Bill my first fish and calling him out to out fish me today...


We fished the shoreline from across the boat launch and continued along the road catching a bunch of fish in a nice weed patch that was located near a brick wall of some type in the water. We got about 4 fish in this area, then moved around relatively fast to see what the entire lake looked like since it was our first time at the lake. Initially I wondered if the lake had a good weed population and found that the lake does have a lot of weeds but in good balance; not too much & not too little.

We made our way around the lake and decided to really pick out the rock island directly across the lake from the boat launch. We fished the rock island and further down really slow picking off fish after fish. The pattern we seemed to put together was that fish were coming off weed edges with the senko and on the popper within scattered weeds. The top water bite lasted well into 9AM and the action was pretty steady. We were leaving with 9 fish in the boat until I got a call, stopped the boat and Bill made a few casts to catch 2 more fish back-to-back. We finally ended our day at 11AM with 11 fish in the boat. We had a great time as last weekend with good fishing and great weather. Unfortunately all the fish were SMALL!!

Weather: Sunny & Warm 80*
Water Temp: 76-77*
Bait(s): Senko, Tube, Spinner & Frog

MONROE, NY -- Met up with my buddy Bill to fish Round Lake where he hasn't been to in many, many years. The last time I visited Round Lake was exactly one year ago to this date and fishing was much better this year.

We arrived to the boat launch at 6am and about 20 mins later we were on the water. Within the first half hour I hooked up with the first fish of many to follow...



Nothing was of huge size, they were actually all smaller fish that we caught today. Last year the few I caught were small as well so it leaves me wondering if Round Lake has any bigger fish; which I'm sure it does (it must have). We fished the center island on the lake and worked our way around most of the shoreline landing fish pretty often considering we were not out long. The fish were picking up tubes and senkos with little effort so we almost didn't know that we had fish on until we lifted our rod tips. Bill was worried he wasn't going to find a fish until this bad boy made his appearance...



There was no solid pattern that we could put together cause the fish were coming from everywhere; lilly pads, wood, rocks, etc. Several baits worked so they were not picky to see a certain presentation. We had a great time and ended our day fishing the lilly pads landing another two fish. We headed for the boat launch at 11am with a total of ten fish in the boat for our day; not bad at all. I actually expected a bad day because there was a posting at the boat launch that weed treatment had taken place only 3 days ago so it warned of swimming until treatment had settled.