Since the last blog posted I have recently purchased a boat. The new addition to my family is a '02 Bass Tracker Pro Team 165. I couldn't be happier to have it and already put a few hours on the water with it. The biggest issue I am having is now, even more so, with every free moment I want to take it out on the water.
With that being said the plan was to wake up early Saturday morning and hit West Neck. With the wind blowing out of the north the couple days prior I was a bit concerned the water would be too low but arriving at the ramp things look good to go. My dad was along for the journey today and we launched the boat about 720 am. The conditions looked good. Air temperature was chilly but there was no wind until about 1030 am. Water temperature started out about 60 but warmed to 65.
It was about 830 that we notice some activity on the surface and headed over to get a closer look. It was about this time that we stumbled upon a large school of feeding bass. I don't know how fish were there but in the span of roughly an hour we boated to my estimation roughly 20 bass. Nothing too big I believe the biggest one I took the time to weigh came in a 1.8 lbs. It was close to an every cast hook up kind of day. It was something that was really hard to describe, but was a blast. My only complaint if I was going to make one would have been they weren't big enough! I caught all of them in this period on an X-Rap Fire Tiger suspending jerk bait. My dad caught them on two different jerk baits a suspending and floating (sorry but I don't know the brand). It was roughly 945 when we hadn't had a bite or fish in a while that we realized the bite turned off and we decided to move.
Over the course of the next roughly 6 hours I ended up boating 6 more bass on a War Eagle spinner bait and on pickerel on a jerk bait. My dad I believe landed on more bass and on Bowfin weighing in at 3.13 lbs.
All in all it was a blast to be on the water and a day that I am sure I will never forget. The plan is to head out again tomorrow and honor our veterans by hopefully boating a few more fish.
Until next time.....
Here are some photos from the day. I will be updating this post later with a short video of some of the action from the day.
I'm a little biased because I was with you, think there were more than 20 fish between us, maybe 20 fish each - at that feeding school. It was crazy. It was the kind of thing all your fishing buddies have heard about but never experienced for themselves.
ReplyDeleteAn awesome day! I've had that happen about three times over the years. It was all smaller fish for me also. Would be great if the 3 to 5 pounders would do the same thing. West Neck is the best spot in the winter. Keep casting.
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