Tournament on Scugog

After missing the CBAF Scugog event with the North GTA club, I decided to jump on to fish the Kawarthas event, and I am glad I did. I got paired up with a great boater, we had a lot of fun even though it was an odd day. The fish hit very hitting lightly, most of the time we didn't know they where there when we were shaking the baits, but when we started reeling we felt the weight. 

Then there was the smallie.....that hit a Live Target Frog in open water! I remember reading an article maybe 12 years ago about brook trout fishing in lakes. They said "when you are entering a bay, always make a cast out side of the bay on the way in." That's something that I have adopted with all sorts of species. We were fishing this section of lilly pads, and didn't get a fish, as we started turning the boat towards the main lake to leave, I decided to make a cast across the mouth of a little back bay. Halfway across the bay, my frog got hammered! At first I thought that it was a bucket mouth  while my boater was saying it is was smallie, but once we got it in the net we realized how big of a smallie it actually was! 

I like the guy posing in the background!

The large mouth came on a Chilli Pepper Flappin' Craw from Bass Magnet rigged on a 1/4 ounce tungsten weight with a 5/0 TK 130 Trokar Flipping Hook