FISH CATCHING TRAVEL
Sioux Narrows – Smallmouth Madness
There is a small lake right across the road from Muskie Bay that we had not fished before so Shoedog and I decided to give it a try. Only a minute from the resort, it is 2 miles long and deep and really clear. Basically it has nothing but smallmouth, no problem. The wind was supposed to blow out of the north again today so we decided to stay close. And tomorrow it is off to Bear Bay on Lake of the Woods for the big smallmouth extravaganza and then some walleyes on the way home. Since it is 25 miles to the ramp, and over 20 miles up there, it was a good day to rest, if catching smallmouth on jerkbait all day is resting.
Nothing like catching this size.
We just picked the deep side and started down the bank and it was almost 2 minutes before we started catching them. Not only could you see them eat, we say several bunches swimming around.
Talk about fight, you get your monies worth!
Shoedog started with the Red Bream Smithwick suspending Rogue. I tried lots of stuff and though I caught a few, I finally got with the program and it was game on. The water temp was 59 or so and though the north wind was cold it warmed to the mid 60′ by time we quit.
Now that is a moose!
We caught little ones to big ones, maybe 75 give or take a dozen. Funny how bass everywhere like it retrieved, jerk/jerk/pause/jerk and do it again. Rarely did you feel them hit, usually we saw them roll over and eat. We had tons of follows and occasionally several would be after it.
This is the medium size we caught a bunch of.
Before the day was over we caught a few on buzzbait, swim jig, and grub, but that suspending jerkbait was the ticket. And Shoedog is one big jerk, so it worked out perfect.
An old bass fisherman like me loves catching these things.
Like most places around noon they slacked off. Finally around 4 they started up again and we caught them until we quit at 6. It was nice to catch fish most of the day and not have crappy weather.
We probably saw an easy 40 – 50 hit it,way cool.
We had a good day and are really looking forward to tomorrow. Clyde and John got out late today and went to LOW. It was slow for them early afternoon but before it was over they caught some walleyes, perch, smallmouth, and a musky. Fishing is getting better all the time.
We have seen a couple of minks, of course the bears and eagles, beaver, and several big snapping turtles.
This guy was hanging at the ramp.
I am not sure what they are up to but we have seen quite a few of the big ones. All I have to say is good thing we can’t take them. I love me some turtle slow fried in mushroom soup.
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I got this question from Logan who I met 2 years ago here at Muskie Bay.
Hey bud its, Logan Eller (Troy’s son from Tulsa) meet you the year before last when we stayed in the cabin beside you. We are headed up next week. Just wondering what the water temps were ranging from, on both Lake of the Woods and Crow.
We are looking forward to seeing you guys. The water temp when we got here this week was in mid to upper 50’s. The weather had turned off a little cold and it dropped a little but the weather is about to really warm up. Jake found some in the high 60’s as did Clyde on LOW. Here it was approaching 60. To give you an example there were no bass in Bass Alley but that will probably change. We fished South Narrows today and it went from 59 to the mid 60’s in the afternoon. Fishing has been good for most fish, so you may hit it just right. So have a safe trip and holler when you get here.
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I hope you all are enjoying fishing along with us. So far it is everything we could hope for. Hope is running rampant for tomorrow and Bear Bay. So it will be up early and off we go. If it is anything like it has been in the past there is about to be a killing. So keep stopping in and thanks for reading my stuff.
Good Luck and Tight Lines
(Please disregard the total lack of editing, but it is 10, we have just ate and it is off to bed.)
