The calendar says fall, but the temperatures of late feel more like winter. I was pleasantly surprised to get an e-mail from Robert Paradise last week inquiring about the possibility of coming fishing. Robert usually fishes several days at AP every year, but had to cancel his fall trip and had limited opportunity to fish closer to home as well.…
Bucks are Moving! I just posted a couple of deer pictures that Shelley took from the back door of our house. Great 3 1/2 yr old buck that I don’t recall seeing before. I have been in a bow stand a few mornings and in the woods working on stands most days. Most of the deer movement is still limited…
Great Fall Fishing?????? Not sure how many years it has been since we had great fall fishing at AP. Always seems that the fish should bite as the temp drops and the fall colors appear. The reality has been that my memory of hard fall bites gets more and more distant each year. I’m not sure if this is a…
The May 11th flood wiped out our grass beds, particularly the fine bladed grass that normally rings the lake by June. Coontail made a valiant effort to fill the void, but its growth was hampered by falling water levels. The result was a mass movement of the bass to the timber. Most of our big bass are caught from the…
Yep, It’s Officially Hot! Posted on August 11, 2010I’m a bit late with my 1st of the month report, late hay season is the main culprit. It has indeed turned hot even by my standards, when every piece of equipment needs to be in the shade to be handled without gloves, it’s hot! July saw a quick shutdown on the…
Summer Arrives As Scheduled Posted on July 05, 2010Sunny, hot weather arrived as the calendar predicted. Several days of mid-ninety hi’s made the fish start looking for the shade and kicked off the same reliable pattern of bass activity we saw last summer. Big plastics quickly became the rule of the day with fish biting shallow early in the morning…
May Closes With A Flurry Posted on June 01, 2010May fishing was quite a roller coaster ride. By the 2nd week of the month I was quite convinced that the first stage of the spawn happened in early March, bass fry were everywhere and most fishermen reported good numbers of fish, but few big fish were caught. That usually is…
Something That Makes Sense All through April I waited and watched for the mass arrival of big females on the beds at Black Perch Bay. We saw a few good fish that were definitely locked on a bed, but never for more than a few hours and some days every bed in the bay was vacated. I have finally concluded…