Sunday, May 6, 2012

The Rainbow "Fish" Coalition



















I wanted to take another crack at the lake, this time in the morning.  There was a bass tournament going on so I was a little worried about the lake being crowded, but it proved easy enough to fish the spots I wanted to.  I started off hammering the pits with a crankbait, but couldn't get a bite.  From there I moved up the New River along the bank across from the east shore, closest to the marina.  I got a couple of bites, but no takers on a crayfish in-line spinner.  I was about to pop smoke on this spot when a channel cat slammed my lure.  He was nothing to write home about (being only 15 inches or so) but it was still a pretty cool catch adding to the diversity of species and sub species that I have caught this weekend.  I proceeded up the New River a ways for a couple of hours missing two or three bass and seeing a bald eagle doing some fishing of its own before reversing coarse and retreating far up the Bluestone River in pursuit of pan fish again.  I banged out couple dozen as I had done a couple of days before, this time on Gulp Alive maggot imitations.  It has been a pretty extraordinary weekend where I caught around 70 fish.  Some of which were nice size.  I caught at least 9 different species over the weekend which included musky, red eye, smallmouth, trout, crappie, bluegill, green sunfish, pumpkinseed, and catfish.  All and all an awesome weekend!

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