Spent the day on Scugog doing some running around with Seabass trying to learn the lake a bit better. We had a decent morning, then it slowed down a bit, but then got real exciting just before we had to leave (I had to work....boooo)
First, the exciting part.....
We were working our way through an area, and found some great structure, and I mean great! Like when the people on TV draw those little diagrams that have 4 or 5 pieces of major structure all close together to save room on the TV screen kind of great! So he flips up to the outside edge, and gets hit on the drop, lets me know that he has a fish on and as I turn to look I see the bass coming up for a jump, and a giant Muskie coming up to eat it! The Muskie turns on the fish at the surface, throws about a gallon of water into the boat with his tail, splashes around some more, and rips the bass off the hook leaving the bait intact! We were guessing that fish to be in the 50 inch + class this was the longest freshwater fish and close to the fattest fish I have ever seen in person!
The rest of the day...went something thing like this.
We got there as the sun was just about to break the horizon, hit up a flat with assorted weeds and started throwing frogs and punch baits. We had a few fish each blow up on the Live Target frogs and Seabass got one in the boat, but I couldn't get any fish on the Strike King Rodent.
Eventually we started to move around, we were here to learn after all. We spotted some fish still guarding fry and we left them alone to guard. Since between the two of us, we only fished the lake three or four times before, we focused on finding new spots in the lake, and we found some cool spots! Scugog really is a "junk" fishing paradise. Flipping pads, punching baits, picking apart docks, and throwing frogs is probably my favourite way to fish, and the "bog" really is a great place to do it! We switched our focus to flipping docks as the sun got high and I hooked into a nice one on a jig almost right away.
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| Excuse Sebastians finger.....he normally uses an iPhone |
Seabass got some nice fish, including the one that was stolen from him, but my favourite was this tiny guy he got throwing a spinner bait...he is probably gonna kill me for posting this!!!!!
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| See....no finger! |
All in all it was a good day, found some new spots, and even though we had to get out early, had a decent learning day.
