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Author:
PECo
Date:
Mar 20, 2012
Subject:
Lake Basile 03/20
Message:
I decided to check out Lake Basile, which is another one of my local spots, so I hauled The Other Woman down the Rails to Trails path to the lake this morning: [img:b891328df8]http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/8118/img1765cropped.jpg[/img:b891328df8] [img:b891328df8]http://img12.imageshack.us/img12/3316/img1766cropped.jpg[/img:b891328df8] It was a beautifully sunny, warm day, with just a slight breeze from the south. The water was a little murky. I could see the bottom clearly only about three feet down. While I was on the water from 10:45 am to 2:00 pm, the water temperature rose from 57-1/2 degrees to 62-1/2 degrees. And the bite picked up from nothing to a little something with the rise in temperature. I began the day by throwing a four inch white curlytail grub on a 3/16 ounce round shakeyhead jighead and a wacky rigged five inch green pumpkin/red flake Senko mostly at the shore, but also toward the middle of the pond. Although I spotted the occasional panfish or small largemouth bass in the shallows, I didn't get any hits on either of the bigger lures, so I downsized and began throwing a 2-1/2 inch pearl silver Gulp! Minnow on a 1/16 ounce round jighead. At one point, I twitched it across the head of a large yellow perch that I saw sitting on the bottom and it was completely ignored. After 45 minutes of nothing, I decided to fish the laydowns on the west shore of the lake. It took only a few casts before I got a hit on the little jig and boated my first fish: [img:b891328df8]http://img838.imageshack.us/img838/5717/img1768cropped.jpg[/img:b891328df8] It was just a six inch largemouth bass, but it was a start. :D I got three more six to 11 inch long largemouth bass before I finally boated a keeper, which was all of 13 inches long: [img:b891328df8]http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/8505/img1770cropped.jpg[/img:b891328df8] I kept catching small largemouth bass as I made my way around the shallows on the north end of the lake, but also got a small black crappie. I headed down the west shore and I picked up a few more small largemouth bass. The warming water really changed the bite. In the colder morning water, I couldn't get anything to bite in the same spots. I ended up catching a baker's dozen of largemouth bass, but a dozen of them were only six to 11 inches long. When I was almost ready to get off of the water, I decided to try deadsticking the small jig in the deeper water on the south end of the lake. To my surprise, I caught two more black crappie, an 11 incher and this 13 incher: [img:b891328df8]http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/3778/img1772cropped.jpg[/img:b891328df8] I didn't mark a single fish on my finder, but most of the lake is less than three feet deep. I'm pretty sure that I spotted a 15 inch largemouth bass in the water, so I'm hopeful that the fishing will be good there this Summer. I really needed that after my disappointment at Nod Brook WMA, yesterday. Happy first day of Spring, everybody! :D
Author:
DirtyDawg10
Date:
Mar 20, 2012
Message:
Nice job! Never knew there were crappie in there.
Author:
madkey
Date:
Mar 21, 2012
Message:
Phil, another great report! Can you go fish the Thames for me and let me know whats goin on Rich
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