Randy (Surprise) joined me today for a short day on the lake. Randy doesn't get away from work as often as he would like, so we took advantage of a rare free day. The day started with a dead battery. Back to Vergennes to try and replace the old one. No luck, so we plucked Randy's battery off of the Surprise, plopped it into the Crabman and headed back to the landing. A sunny, breezy/choppy day, but still the lake was jammed with boats. For a while we spent more time jostling for trolling position than fishing. I would tell you where the masses were, but it might only add more boats and we only picked up two fish in the opening hour. We bugged out of the mosh pit and found a nice late afternoon bite. This big silver came with nobody around toward the end of the day. 24" 6 1/4 lbs. We had several fish in the new area and for the most part they were taking light or white blended lures. (I will put some photos up tomorrow) Everything came with lures about 5 feet down and 50 back.
I will admit to a little messing around with the background in this photo, but the fish is real and untouched. I plan on touching the old bugger tomorrow night for dinner.
The only thing missing here is the Stinger (06) that caught the fish in the photo. It has disappeared from my boat.
