Apr 19 2021
Joshua Massoud
Keeper
Member Since :
2021
Number of Posts :
485
Reservation Number : 27917
Property Name : Flying J
Reservation Date : 04/18/2021 All Day -
Total Fish/Sizes : 32
Lures Used : Variety - Trap, Senko, Squarebill
Took the daughter just to fish a new lake. Beautiful lake, very clear water but with a decent stain. Varying depths throughout the lake with some deepish 15 foot water in many spots. Lots of timber, structure, and vegetation – I prefer lakes with fishable vegetation and this fits the bill. We got there at 9:30, but didn’t get fishing till near 11. Fished till 6:30 with an hour and half lunch break at 1.
We did have a rough start though. The boat leaks, slowly, but it leaks (looks like the wood backing in the back is rotting – and, separetely, the plug is too small for the hole or isn’t adhesive enough. I macgyver’d a fix using some sticky plastic I managed to have in my car.
Next up – my trolling motor had issue with the eel grass. When the breaker kicked in and my motor died, the wind pushed us to the south end and we couldn’t get out because the eel grass was really thick – kept winding into the prop near the dowel. So in the lake I went and pushed us out far enough – after three tries and undoing the prop on the trolling motor multiple times, we were finally fishing an hour later.
Once got on the lake, it was great. Young lake with alot of bass, looked like crappie and large bluegill/sunbfish. My daughter caught a massive sunfish on a rattletrap.
As for bass, we worked the vegetation in the middle of the lake near some timber and towards the north east bank with traps/squarebills/senkos. Water is clear, so natural colors for the most part. Caught 30+ bass, with 3 over 2lbs. Most were small, but my daughter doesn’t care, she just like to catch fish (11 years old) and plenty of fish were had.
She ‘beat me’ this time in total fish. I’ll let her have it even though I walked into the lake to push us out and gave her my favorite trap. She used a baitcaster for most of the day with only a handful of backlashes (none of which was bad) – so I call that a really successful day for us.
I was able to catch this nice 3.6 near the north east end by some brush. Overall – this lake is going to be amazing in two years. May need to be stocked with shad – didn’t see much in the way of shad in the corner. It has crawfish – a few of the bigger fish had red mouth inside from eating craws. My two cents anyway.
Apr 19 2021
Michael Lukich
Fry
Member Since :
2019
Number of Posts :
27
Hi Joshua, I fished the lake day before. Thanks for mentioning NE corner. We spent a lot of time there. Glad you and your daughter caught a lot of fish.
mike