5/16 to 5/21

it's been a bit of a tough week. The fish are on once in a while but for the most part we're still seeing alot of spawning bass that we just leave alone.
Rich D and I hit the river on wednesday after work til sundown and had a pretty good wade. We got about a dozen or so smallies with the 2 biggest being about 15" each, one on a jig for me and the other on an 8 weight fly rod for Rich. I think he was using a rabbit fur leach on that fish. We also got a couple nice crappies and a whole bunch of green sunfish.
That same evening Mike was on a local lake just tearing them up with a buzzbait. He lost one that would have beat his 24" largemouth from last month. He also caught a couple smallmoiuth bass up to 15".
Saturday morning Mike and I went to a lake that we haven't fished since last year. We walked the shoreline in the morning and caught 10 or 12 largemouth bass, a couple smallmouth bass and even a very nice walleye that Mike got on a YoZuri Minnnow outside of a weed line.


Saturday evening Dave, Christina and Alexis visited Lago Casa for a BBQ and bonfire. Alexis had never fished before and was ready to learn. And learn she did. Quickly I might add. I think she caught about 10 bluegills, a couple crappies and a small bass. She even hooked up with the legendary Mama Cass who was released without a photo. Great job Alexis!!
Here's some pictures of her catching fish on her first day of fishing!


Sunday, Tim and I hit a couple different places in search of bass on flyrods. Again...we found quite few that are stil spawning, so it was more of a good hike than anything. The bass that were hitting were mainly small ones that aren't spawning. We're just waiting for some of the 4 & 5 pounders we saw to get off the beds and start hitting again.

Lures to try right now: buzzbaits, poppers, sliderhead jigs with plastics, Rapalas and YoZuris.