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Author:
PECo
Date:
Sep 06, 2011
Subject:
Bantam Lake 09/06
Message:
When asianfisher (aka Billy) called me this morning, I told him that it's raining and that I didn't plan to go fishing. Billy essentially told me that I was a wussie and, after he drove down from Massachusetts, yeah, I went fishing with him in the south cove of Bantam Lake. We stopped by the formerly public boat launch ramp in the southeast corner of the cove, but the Town of Morris has decided to restrict its use to Residents Only:
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However, we drove down to the ramp to check out the water level. It came all the way up to the asphalt at the end of the driveway; still high, but not too bad. We ended up parking near and launching from the boarded up white building on the shore in the southwest corner, which I think is on state land. We launched into a stiff north breeze just before 10:00 am:
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQiUtiS68Mo[/youtube]
Billy paddled La Calabaza and I paddled El Habaņero. The air was cool and humid, and the sky was totally overcast. It sprinkled or rained off and on while we were on the water. Billy headed over to the west shore and I paddled across the cove to the marina in the northwest corner. On his way up the shore, Billy boated a 1-1/2 pound largemouth bass with a blue and white two willow blade spinnerbait. I think that he ended up boating all of his fish with that lure. I trolled a silver Rapala Shallow Shad Rap SSR7 across the cove, but didn't get any hits. I threw a black Booyah Buzz buzzbait for a while, but got only one small hit without a hookset. I couldn't resist tying on a wacky rigged green pumpkin/red flake five inch Senko and throwing it at the big laydown that's just south of the marina, and I boated my first fish of the day when this 15 inch, one pound, nine ounce largemouth picked it up:
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I threw the wacky Senko and a soft plastic frog around the marina, and didn't get any hits. I did, however, see an ENCON POLICE boat for the first time ever, tied up at a dock:
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I went past the marina to the north shore of the cove, where the wacky Senko got me a 14 inch largemouth and a rock bass:
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At this point, Billy paddled up from the middle of the west shore to show me the two largemouth that he had boated:
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That's a three pound, 15 ounce largemouth with the 1-1/2 pounder that he had caught first. He released both fish after I took the photo. While we were talking, a small northern pike followed Billy's spinnerbait all the way up to his kayak, so I tied on a black spinnerbait with a big Colorado blade. We drifted south past a buoy that marks some shallow rocks, but didn't get any hits. Billy paddled back to the middle of the west shore and I went back to the laydown that's just south of the marina. I got a couple of good hits with the wacky Senko, including a fish that pulled hard enough to straighten out my Gamakatsu Number 4 Octopus Circle hook a little, but both fish ended up spitting the hook. Sonofab*!@# :x I continued to throw the wacky Senko tight to the shore as the wind pushed me south. I boated another freakin' rock bass before a big largemouth picked up the wacky Senko:
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It weighed 3-3/4 pounds and was 19 inches long with the tail pinched. Whoo hoo! :D Just then, Billy paddled up to me with the largest of the three northern pike that he had boated with the spinnerbait in the southwest corner:
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It was 24 inches long. The only spinnerbait with willow blades that I had with me was a heavy Bluegill patterned one ounce Strike King Bottom Dweller, so I tied it on. I figured that I could swim it shallow if I just reeled fast. On my first cast toward the west shore, a small chain pickerel followed it up to my kayak. Just then, I noticed that Billy had pulled up on the shore from where we had launched. As I worked my way toward him, I got a hit on the spinnerbait and boated a 22 inch chain pickerel:
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I had promised myself that I would keep the next decent pickerel I caught, so it came home with me. It's already filleted and I'll fry it up tonight. We were both off of the water shortly after 1:00 pm. Thanks for dragging my a$$ out into the rain today, Billy! :D
Author:
DirtyDawg10
Date:
Sep 06, 2011
Message:
Nice job guys! Looks like a fun trip...some nice catches.
Author:
asianfisher
Date:
Sep 06, 2011
Message:
No problem Phil... Always have a great time fishing with you... And rememner" you gotta want it to get it".... Shit was windy i got tangled with my 2 rods with the one tangled being braid so i took time to take it off untill i blew to shore and a waave crashed into my side making me sit in 2" of water on the seat WTF!!!!! lol All in all good day!!!! Thanks D
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