With the weather looking pretty decent yesterday, Tim and I decided to tow the boat into Quebec to fish my buddies small cottage lake.
A quick stop for poutine and dogs on the way up, and the boat was in the water at about 3:10pm.
Headed over to the productive area Andy and I had found the week before. Not as stacked this time around, but still found some fish that were willing to play.
Tim's small bucktail jig (black/green) seemed to be the best producer, although my BPS craw and SPRO bucktail also accounted for a few fish. Most were again relating to a sparse flat with isolated weed clumps, and were concentrated in water between 5 and 12 feet deep. Quick snaps of the jig while "swimming" it close to bottom seemed to work best.
This was the best fish of the day. This girl smacked the craw and football jig at boatside:
Fished up until sundown, and put 15 largies and one jumbo perch in the boat for three hours work. No smallies to be found this time. Still amazed at how well these largies fight - definitely a blast on spinning gear!
Kept a few fish for the table, and made a bit of an interesting discovery. Like I mentioned last time, most of the largies from this lake don't have the fat guts like they should this time of year. Checked out the stomach contents of the fish I kept - all were empty except for a large, black water beetle in one. Tim's jig mimicked this perfectly, and perhaps that is why it seemed to work so well on this outing. Don't know enough about the lake to figure out what the main forage base is - but perhaps this flat is harboring a large concentration of these beetles??
Another fun fall afternoon on the water...
Good Fishing,
Justin
@ the color of those bass!