A lot of big bass in the same area!

Last spring i was fishing for the spawning bass with a 3/8 ounce blue and black stanley jig with a blue trailer on it. I started out fishing on a tree line right on the shore. I wasnt catching much a couple little bass, then I tried moving to a couple of other spots neither of which were successful. It started to rain, so i decided to move under a tree with my boat for some cover, I was still fishing with jig and decided to do a little flipping under the tree. A couple of casts later i latched into a big one. You know that feeling when you get a big bass on? when you set the hook and your rod bends over and the fishing is thumping but will not move, its a great feeling. That is what i felt when i latched into this one. It was a big fish, I got her in, she was about 4 lbs, not a bad bass. I then casted back out, on both that cast and the one following i caught a 5 lb bass and a 6 lb bass. I thought to myself that i must have found a nesting ground for some big fish. The water that i was fishing in was about 4-6 feet deep, perfect for nesting bass, big nesting bass. Although i didnt catch any more fish at that spot, I had a great day just with the 3 big ones I did catch, I then decided that I would move to one more spot, and fished there for about 10 mins. Within those 10 minutes I got another 3 lb bass. All in all I had a great day, I wish that would have been a tourniment, I would have been in the money with that bag.

One odd but amazing day!

In beginning of the month of july, 2005, i think it was like july 5, I set out fishing real early in the morning, because i had the day off and wanted to make the most of it. My aunt decided to allow me to join her in her boat, which is a really nice old town canoe. It was a beautiful morning, about 70 degrees. I started fishing with a weightless ribbontail worm, this was before i knew about the wacky worms, or else i would have been using that. Anyway i started out and there were pods of blugill fry hiting the surface all around me and everyone once in a while i would notice the that all the fish in the pod would jump all at once, Im pretty sure it was because there was a big bass underneath them.

I was getting many bites which seemed like they were from sunfish and bluegills, but atleast it kept me awake, and focused on the motion of the worm, which wasnt much might i add. All i was doing was casting the worm out and letting it sink for about 20 seconds then reeling it in a little more and letting it sink again. I was fishing in about 6 feet of water with a ledge going up into 4.5 ft of water close by. Ofcourse everytime i felt a tap I would set the hook, even if i did think it was just a sunfish. This was because the feeling of a bass biting on the worm is very close to the feeling of a sunfish nibbling on the line.

After about an hour out on the boat, we bagan to catch some bass, and that didnt stop for a while. For about the next two hours i was catching bass after bass, and these were not little fish either, most weighing 2 lbs or heavier and some of which were 5-6 lbs. Those were big bass for northern waters. Let me tell you that this pond that i was fishing at was not know to mass produce big bass, or big numbers of bass at all. My average day on this pond was about 6 bass and that was in 2 hous or so of fishing. That morning in about 3 hours i had landed 30, or so, bass, it was amazing! And i wasnt the only one, my aunt was catching the same amount, she was matching me fish for fish, something was going on that made these bass turned on. Im pretty sure it had something to do with the lunar cycle, it was a full moon, or very close to it for that day and the next three days and the fishing was fantastic for all of those days.

The best part of that day was not the morning, it was the evening bite, I went back out fishing that evening when it cooled down a little, it was about 90 degrees that day. I was fishing with a jitterbug because the sun was setting and it was soon to be dark, and there is no better lure for this time of night than a jitterbug. About 5 minutes before i set out fishing my mom called me and told me to get out on the water as soon as possible because my aunt had just caught the biggest bass she had ever seen. So i grabbed the camera and a scale and set out down to the pond. When i got there i saw the bass and it was the biggest one that i had ever seen as well, I weighed it, it weighed 6 lbs and 10 ounces, it was huge.

After all that commotion was done, I decided it was time to see what i could do when the bite was soo good. I started casting my jitterbug and within 8 casts i had already landed 5 bass, all of which were very good sized bass, nothing small. I casted again and this time it was different, the splash was much more loud, it was like a kurplunk, you guys/gals know what im talking about it was the big one. I set the hook and it was more powerful than any other bass i had ever had on the line, so powerful infact that i first thought it was a pike on my line. I finally got the bass in and immediatley started screaming, it was the biggest bass i had ever seen, even though the biggest one i had seen before that was caught a half an hour previously. I began screaming for someone to get a cammera and a scale so that i could document this beauty. No one was able to get to me soon enough and i had to let it go, luckily my sister was in the boat with me, so someone saw it to see that it was truely a monster, i would have to say that this fish was upwards of 8 lbs and about 23 inches long, a true giant. i decided that was a good way to end the night and i packed up my stuff and headed in. To this day, that was the biggest bass i have caught and even seen in real life.

I always go back to fishing!

I recently began my college career, and I'm currently in my second semester of my freshman year in college. I started out last year as an architecture student, but that wasn't working out too well, I had to find something different. Now I know what you're all thinking, it was too hard, there was too much work, this kid doesn't have any kind of work ethic. Well it's not like that at all, well maybe a little, but for the most part it was because i took too much time away from my fishing. I was spend all my time in the studio working out projects, and if I wasn't the studio I was in class or doing work for those classes, I soon decided that was enough of that.

I began looking at some colleges that had something that i wanted to get into and heard about this Fisheries program at a local college, and though "yup, this is for me." I began the admissions process during winter break and I'm currently one week into my spring semester as a fisheries technology student. I can already tell that im going to love it, first of all my classes/teachers are all great, and so far the workload has not been too bad. Not to mention, the best part is that im right next Canindagua Lake :), works for me. Now instead of doing work, then more work, i'm gonna do some work then go fishing!