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Weather: Sunny & Hot; 90*
Water Temp: Unknown
Bait(s): Senkos

NEW PALTZ, NY -- Launched about 7:15am and began fishing some lilly pads just off the break near the launch. Had an immediate slurp (not hard blow up) on a frog. My PIC (partner in crime) Bill nailed two pretty fast but because he was using inferior equipment he lost both fish. I handed him my $800 fishing rod combined with my $400 electronic reel spooled with the most expensive fishing line known to man and he landed an 8lb bass.

Ok, seriously Bill did hook into two bass shortly after we launched resulting in a loss but a quick change of his hook and he was landing bass like a pro. Some fish came from under the pads as they seemed to be looking for shade from the blistering sun. I managed only one fish on a frog in the area near the boat launch but it came from a small patch of open water between some lilly pads. We caught 2-3 near the lilly pads and decided to head toward the shoreline that seemed to have the most shade cover.

There was a strip of shoreline that I recalled seeing on the sonar as having lots of rocks or some form of cover under the water in about a 10ft depth so we fished that area and it was killer. At one point we were both pulling fish in together so that made for the highlight of our day. Numbers increased on the shaded shoreline quick but the sun continued to come up just as quick.

We ended the day with about 13 bass for about 5 hrs of fishing with no real significant sizes. Most of the fish were really small, however we did notice a posting near the boat launch that the water was treated for algae. We did see a green substance floating all over the lake which is very likely an attributing factor to why only the little guys were active today. All in all we had a great time despite my trolling motor burning out (the thing was literally smoking).

Weather: Cloudy & Windy
Water Temp: Unknown
Bait(s): Rattletrap, Small Grub

NEWBURGH, NY -- My nephew & his dad have been wanting to take up fishing for some time now with no guide to get them started so I took them out for a day on the lake. I demonstrated like a pro how to use various baits and techniques, will they work...well that's a different story!

We arrived about 8am when the park opened for business and we quickly launched our boat. In the first five minutes I had 3 misses on a topwater lure which really had me thinking we were going to have a grand day if the fish were already hitting a lure in less than five mins. However, we struggled to find fish today...well the adults did but not my little nephew the new bass pro. The first fish was dad with a shameless blue gill but then my nephew who asked for a "napkin" to hold the blue gill completely takes us by storm by landing fish back to back!

See for yourself...

Video

My nephew really nailed 'em today! If you noticed in the video his dad had his own rod in his hand so everyone can clearly see my boy had control of his own bass baby! I'm still fired up from seeing him pull in that fish. We kinda let him fend for himself to see if he could get used to it since he seemed to be doing well on his own and boy he really showed us. By the time he landed his bass his dad and I were still skunked!

Beautiful fish...

After the thrill of seeing my 5yr old nephew land his fish we continued searching tirelessly for the elusive bass. We tried just about everything to no avail until finally we decided to call it a day about noon and that's when my nephew's dad started landing his bag of bass.

Here is dad's bass...

We ended the day with about 6 bass, 1 crappie and a blue gill. All the bass were small in size but my nephew and his dad have a new found love. I can't wait to see them both land their next bag of bass.

Weather: Clear, Sunny & Windy
Water Temp: 62*
Bait(s): Everything!

NEWBURGH, NY -- Friend & I decided to hit a mystery lake this morning which we called lake "x" today as part of an ongoing joke we have. We launched about 5:15AM with calm waters catching crappie almost immediately. The lake was small so we fished slow and even ripped out the dash board to the boat and tossed it in to see if throwing the kitchen sink would hit a fish on the head & get us something. Unfortunately that didn't work because a fish didn't come up belly up after we did the toss.

About an hour and a half into fishing my buddy John FINALLY pulled what looked like a bass into the boat.



We fished until about 11am and the day turned into a Pickerel fest! We caught pickerel on top water, plastics, frogs...EVERYTHING! By end of day we only found about a handful of bass and about 100 pickerel. I won't embarrass my buddy and mention the lake but heck his photo is embarrassing enough since now you can see who he is. Hehe! :o)

We had a great time despite the terrible choice of lake which was my buddy's idea so we'll just blame him. Had it been a great day then it would have been MY idea. LOL!

Weather: Clear & Cool 60*
Water Temp: 54*
Bait(s): Crankbait

WAPPINGERS FALL, NY -- Uncle & I had a bad itch to get out and fish, and that we did...Well he did! We launched about 8am fishing slow with some jerkbaits, even smaller profile plastic baits; Nada!

We fished shallow for a while, then focused on deeper water (about 12-15FT) for the rest of the afternoon. My uncle finally hooked into a nice fish about mid-day and boy was it a nice fish. He managed to land a really nice size smallie which was a real pleasant surprise since I've fished this lake a few times and have never personally pulled out a smallie of significant size.





After catching the smallie we kept seeing perch in the immediate area following our crankbaits so I naturally, not wanting to have NO fish for the day, stopped my cranks at the side of boat to allow the perch the opportunity to have a meal. So by 1pm we ended the day with my uncle's nice size smallie and I got two perch. I still say perch don't count but what the heck at least I got something other than a pan fish. :o)