Weather: Cloudy & Windy, 72*
Water Temp: 71*
Baits: Nothing Worked!
NEWBURGH, NY -- Went out today for my second continuous day of fishing with my brother only to be skunked! We arrived at 10AM and it was relatively windy with boat control a little difficult. We threw spinnerbaits for about two hours because the wind made it difficult to fish any soft plastics. At about 12pm the winds seem to die down so we started using plastics again and I hooked into something, presumably a pickerel, because it broke off pretty easily. The only other action we had was a blow up on a Spook which I threw because it got so cloudy it looked like it was 6pm. We struggled to find fish and when we left at 3pm the boat keeper said no big fish came out today.
We left SKUNKED! This is my first skunking of the year thanks to Washington Lake!
Weather: Cloudy 68*
Water Temp: 71*
Baits: Popper, Tubes
LUDINGTONVILLE, NY -- Met up with a friend from nybass.com to fish White Pond this morning. We got to lake at 6am and launched shortly thereafter. We began fishing the weedy shoreline I wanted to fish with killer results! I was throwing a topwater popper and my buddy was throwing a grub style bait and a small profile buzz bait. The fish were killing top water, however they were very small. I originally started throwing a spook but the fish continuously missed the mark when they struck and it was because (1) they were small and (2) they simply didn't want to chase after the bait even though I was fishing it relatively slow.
This had to be the top lure of the day...
We had about a dozen fish each within the first two hours of fishing the weedy shoreline; all short fish. We continued fishing the Eastern shoreline toward the rock piles I wanted to fish but we noticed there were lots of rocks all along the Eastern shoreline which produced nothing; maybe one or two fish. We seemed to manage fish from old beds that we could still see but they only held small fish. We still could not find a legal keeper, even though we had no intentions of keeping them. We picked off another dozen or so fish from the vacant beds and one or two from actual rock piles.
This was your typical fish which is not even photo worthy but I guess I take pictures anyway since my wife is a photo buff.
We ended the day at 11AM with about 30 fish total; more or less. The action was so non-stop the first few hours we lost track of the count because we were just having so much fun!
