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Weather: Sunny & Clear
Water Temp: 80 Degrees

Having had a night tournament prior to this get together, wife and I had to join unofficially since we were not going to join the group at 5:30AM. I got home from my previous night tournament about 8AM, packed wife's rods and we headed for Croton. Arrived at Croton by 9:15AM and had the boat launched by 9:30AM. We began working a rock wall near our launch area when my wife hooked up with a HUGE bass on a spinnerbait. He came to the boat smoothly UNTIL he saw us, then he dived straight down and the fight got intense. Wife played the fish a little and quickly brought his head out the water so I could assist and grab him for her. The slob weighed in at 4.3 LBS on the digital scale.



After the excitement from the big bass we continued working the rock wall in hopes of finding another with no luck. We rowed across the reservoir to a cove to see what we could pick up over there. Gak was mounting up so wife tossed out a frog to no avail. We bumped into a few of the guys and chat for a while but I could not talk too long as I was still skunked for the day. We went out of the cove to a weed flat near 40 feet of water. We tossed out the marker buoys and worked the flat. I was getting nothing on plastics so I figured if the fish were there they would see my spinnerbait shinning as it passed them. Well on my second cast on that bait I had one, Yipee! The skunk was now gone!

Although it was not as big as my wife's fish I tried some camera tricks to make it look big. Look at this baby up close...

Weather: Cloudy
Water Temp: 77-78 Degrees

CANDLEWOOD, CT -- Went fishing with my friend Richie to Candlewood lake. We launched the boat at about 6AM and began targeting a few spots with weeds in the early AM. By 10AM we could not locate the fish so we started trying steep rocky shorelines, again with no luck. Finally we had a hook up with a nice bass along a weed edge near an island point that took my ribbon tail power bait worm. Shortly after I hooked up the first fish Richie landed a beautiful smallie that weighed 3lbs.



By noon we began racing up and down Candlewood lake trying to find fish. Having been on the lake all morning with only 2 fish in the boat was very frustrating BUT we were enjoying the day. By 4pm we decided to call it a day and work one last island that we passed by near the boat launch. As we entered the cove to the boat launch and began working the weed flats I tied on a rattle trap. I began burning the rattle trap across the weeds and hooked up with a fish! Wow! Our luck had changed and we were ready to leave. I continued using the rattle trap to land 3 more fish. I then switched over to a red DT10 crank and landed another 4 fish bringing my total fish catch to 10 bass most of which were caught within the last hour we fished. I even landed a nice size perch that went home with me for dinner. :o)

Weather: Sunny
Water Temp: 81 Degrees

NEWBURGH, NY -- What better way to spend July 4th. Wife and I launched at 8AM working some top water lures. I landed the first fish on a zara spook, jr and she landed a nice fish on a Rapala popper. We let our son land the first fish of the day that hit the spook jr. He did a great job landing it!

Son with the fish he landed...



Wife and I continued to fish trying to find a pattern. We were banging the shoreline with everything we had with no strikes at all. We decided to move out to deeper water and held our position over 6-8FT of water with a hard bottom. After moving off the shoreline I landed my first fish on a 7FT diving crankbait and less than 10 minutes later my wife landed another on a powerbait worm. We found the fish!! The fish were holding in the deeper 6-8FT water mark.



Working our way back to the boat launch my wife and I decided to try the shoreline again to see if we could pick off another fish before we called it a day. Wife and I were working spinnerbaits along the banks when BAM!, she landed a nice 3.5lb Hawg!! We called it a day with a total of 6 fish the biggest being 3.5lbs. Wife took lunker for the day!

Weather: Partly Cloudy
Water Temp: Unknown

CROTON RESERVOIR -- Went fishing with my buddy Mark at Croton for a full day of fishing. We launched about 6AM and began working some top water baits. I had the first 2 fish of a bass and a pickerel. It was very exciting to see a pickerel slam my top water lure since I've NEVER caught a pickerel on top water before. We fished several flats picking off several fish. While in a cove about mid-day I was working a powerbait worm and landed my biggest fish so far, 4lbs.



I ended the day with 8 bass and 2 pickerels. This was by far my best day on croton.

Weather: Very Cloudy
Water Temp: 82 degrees

NEWBURGH, NY -- We launched at 2PM on a very cloudy day with a large chance of rain. Started off an a drop off from 4 feet to 10 feet, marking the drop off with a marker buoy. Worked some grubs with no bite after 15 minutes so I decided to cast a spinnerbait out and, WAM!, I had a fish on! Nice, now we only had to reproduce another hit to figure out the pattern. We started along the northern shoreline using spinnerbaits. We landed fish after fish with spinnerbaits while getting zero strikes on grubs or cranks. While fishing a point my wife and I had a double, we both had fish on!! About 3PM we were tracking the weather on our mobile phone only to see a major thunderstorm moving in on us, so we called it a day. At 3pm we had a total of 11 Bass for the day.

Me with our doubles...


Wife holding our doubles...