A little bass fishing

[Tony Scime]

Took my boat out yesterday for the first time this year. Just wanted to make sure everything was in good working order before musky season starts and maybe do a little bass fishing.

Motors started right up, boat floats, everything worked fine. And had one of my better bass fishing days in quite a while (I've only fished bass once or twice a year the past few seasons). Only fished Donnely's wall area. Started with a tube jig but it mossed up quickly and often. So I switched to a drop-shot rig and started to catch fish right away. Ended up with a dozen bass, all 17 to 20 inches, in about 5 hours of fishing. Not as exceptional as it was 10 to 20 years ago, but the best I've done in at least 5 years. It was fun. Fun enough to pass up a few empty muskie fishing days?

[John Jarosz]

You take what the lake gives you. When it's time for bass, you fish bass. Time for perch, you fish perch, time for steelies, then it's steelies & time for muskies, you fish muskies.
I went to Barcelona yesterday & we got 18 walleye in three hours, 16 of them in the last two hrs. The lake was giving us 'eyes

[Scott McKee]

When I musky fished the harbor often, the lake gave me plenty of plastic bags.