Ray Lopez
10-09-2009, 02:05 PM
Once again i dragged myself out of the house on a cold early fall night.
My buddy rich and I met at the lagoon at about 8:30pm to find out that the upper lot was closed so we parked down by the main lot. Shot the breeze for a bit and set up the rigs and talked about the game plan.
First we tried to hit the rip rap for a few casts, i got one little bite and rich got a bluegill on a n/c (i of course for you that know me was using the almighty drop shot w/ roboworm intact!!)
So we decided to make our way north fan casting all the way till about mid point in the lake. We sat there and fished for a bit the bite was fair nothing to brag about but it was there. Rich and i were landing 1 to 2 pounders with a few 3's showing up here and there. We fished here until our buddy Dave got there. He showed up around 10ish. We started to move a bit more north and then Dave who was not catching anything says he is gonna go to the northernmost spot and fish that since he said he had heard crashing in the water last week.
Well i know we are in a good spot for the previous weeks so i stay put. Once Dave was out of site. I see a huge boil from a bigger class fish right out to the left of me. I cast out a bit past the boil and I get slammed really hard but miss the fish. So i reel up adjust my roboworm cast again in the same spot and with a few twitches of the worm i get slammed again and this time i connect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DING DING DING fight is on! I could tell this was a better fish then what we had been catching all night so i slow down my fighting and let this one run it self out of juice. It was a nice 5 minute battle and i was able to keep her from jumping up until she got to the shallow shoreline. Scooped her up took some pics and weighed her at 7.3lbs on my digi, then walked up ankle deep just to get her back in the water. (oh well cold wet feet are worth 7 pound bass any day.)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/RayLopez/Fishing%20Photos/7bass10-9-09lagoon.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/RayLopez/Fishing%20Photos/7pounder10-09-09lagoon.jpg
So we fished that spot for a bit longer with no more love.
We keep fishing north until we meet up with Dave. He was still not catching anything at all. So we proceed to make our way back south. Just working shoreline the whole way to find a good spot. Rich and I were picking um off here and there but the bite died down pretty dramatically around 1am. Dave switched over to a lure *can't recall what it was called but he did not catch anything on it so whatever lol* He was way in front of me and rich. Almost near the front parking lot. When the bite ripped pen for rich and I again lol. We picked a few more off before we got back to the cars and called it a night.
All in all it was a really good early fall condition bite with most fish hitting a bit deeper then the last few weeks. The smaller units were still sitting in the shallows chasing the bait fish.
Fish count for the night
Ray: 14 bass with that 7 pounder being the biggest
Rich: 8 bass with a 3 pounder being the biggest
Dave: 0 bass with a big ol fat skunk (don't understand how he didn't catch anything)
it was 3am when we called it a night so about 6 hours of night fishing.
Remember folks if you plan on going out bring warm clothing it gets biter cold at night with a little freezing breeze that will numb your hands.
other then the cold conditions it was a beautiful night with the 3/4 moon rising around 10pm and almost no wind all night long sep for a few small cooooooooooold winds that came thru around 2am.
Sorry i was only abl to take the one pic i was too busy catching fish hahahaha!
tight lines
My buddy rich and I met at the lagoon at about 8:30pm to find out that the upper lot was closed so we parked down by the main lot. Shot the breeze for a bit and set up the rigs and talked about the game plan.
First we tried to hit the rip rap for a few casts, i got one little bite and rich got a bluegill on a n/c (i of course for you that know me was using the almighty drop shot w/ roboworm intact!!)
So we decided to make our way north fan casting all the way till about mid point in the lake. We sat there and fished for a bit the bite was fair nothing to brag about but it was there. Rich and i were landing 1 to 2 pounders with a few 3's showing up here and there. We fished here until our buddy Dave got there. He showed up around 10ish. We started to move a bit more north and then Dave who was not catching anything says he is gonna go to the northernmost spot and fish that since he said he had heard crashing in the water last week.
Well i know we are in a good spot for the previous weeks so i stay put. Once Dave was out of site. I see a huge boil from a bigger class fish right out to the left of me. I cast out a bit past the boil and I get slammed really hard but miss the fish. So i reel up adjust my roboworm cast again in the same spot and with a few twitches of the worm i get slammed again and this time i connect!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DING DING DING fight is on! I could tell this was a better fish then what we had been catching all night so i slow down my fighting and let this one run it self out of juice. It was a nice 5 minute battle and i was able to keep her from jumping up until she got to the shallow shoreline. Scooped her up took some pics and weighed her at 7.3lbs on my digi, then walked up ankle deep just to get her back in the water. (oh well cold wet feet are worth 7 pound bass any day.)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/RayLopez/Fishing%20Photos/7bass10-9-09lagoon.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v28/RayLopez/Fishing%20Photos/7pounder10-09-09lagoon.jpg
So we fished that spot for a bit longer with no more love.
We keep fishing north until we meet up with Dave. He was still not catching anything at all. So we proceed to make our way back south. Just working shoreline the whole way to find a good spot. Rich and I were picking um off here and there but the bite died down pretty dramatically around 1am. Dave switched over to a lure *can't recall what it was called but he did not catch anything on it so whatever lol* He was way in front of me and rich. Almost near the front parking lot. When the bite ripped pen for rich and I again lol. We picked a few more off before we got back to the cars and called it a night.
All in all it was a really good early fall condition bite with most fish hitting a bit deeper then the last few weeks. The smaller units were still sitting in the shallows chasing the bait fish.
Fish count for the night
Ray: 14 bass with that 7 pounder being the biggest
Rich: 8 bass with a 3 pounder being the biggest
Dave: 0 bass with a big ol fat skunk (don't understand how he didn't catch anything)
it was 3am when we called it a night so about 6 hours of night fishing.
Remember folks if you plan on going out bring warm clothing it gets biter cold at night with a little freezing breeze that will numb your hands.
other then the cold conditions it was a beautiful night with the 3/4 moon rising around 10pm and almost no wind all night long sep for a few small cooooooooooold winds that came thru around 2am.
Sorry i was only abl to take the one pic i was too busy catching fish hahahaha!
tight lines