Kalamazoo Lake

Gold Ambassador

6/8/23

Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Wacky Rigs
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Shad
Water Temperature
72°

Water had cooled down a lot due to weather and was about 72°F when we went out and cooled down to about 68°F by the time we got off the water. Wind was pretty nuts anywhere from 15-20mph for most of the night. I'll be honest, coangler and I really sucked tonight and should have had 5 good keepers but ended up with two. He had a huge smallie slip a ned and I popped two big large mouths off on the wacky rig. I put one 1.5lb in the boat early on a rat-l-trap, and then caught a few small ones on a trap. I had a number of other small ones on the wacky and a big pike on a spinner. Put one more in the boat around 9:00 on a wacky. Overall it seemed the bass were holding to the scum/weed lines and targeting the pockets in the grass was where I got most of the bites. Bits usually came right as I popped the bait out of the grass. To be brutally honest though, we spent most of the night fighting the current and the wind. It was hard to stay on any points and it ended with us spending most of our time fishing the areas out of the wind trying to find a bit of cover.

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Bill Lewis Original Rat-L-Trap Lipless Crankbait Chrome Blue / 3"

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Berkley PowerBait MaxScent The General Stick Bait 5" / Green Pumpkin

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Gamakatsu G-Finesse Weedless Wacky Hook #1

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PowerPro Spectra Braid 20lb / Moss Green

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PowerPro Spectra Braid 30lb / Moss Green

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Seaguar InvizX 100% Fluorocarbon 12lb / 200 Yards

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Shimano Metanium MGL Casting Reel Left / 7.1:1

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Shimano Vanford Spinning Reel - EOL 2500 / 6.0:1

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Shimano Expride B Casting Rods 7'2" / Medium-Heavy-Glass / Moderate

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Shimano Expride B Spinning Rods 7'2" / Medium-Heavy / Fast

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VMC Crossover Ring 10pk Green Pumpkin / 6mm

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Phelptwan

Gold Ambassador

6/6/24

Species
Largemouth Bass
Season
Spring (Post-Spawn)
Technique
Frogs/Toads
Structure
Submerged Vegetation
Forage
Minnows
Water Temperature
74°

Hit the water around 5:30 and the wind was pretty strong, about 15-20mph. Pretty cloudy/overcast as well and the water visibility was pretty much zero. Most of the crew went up to Silver (which in retrospect looked to be the better idea) but we headed down stream to Kalamazoo and the flats. Our first keeper came on the Yamatanuki. We pulled up and moved to a different side of the lake to try to find some shallows with feeding bass. Eventually spotted a slick of slime/mats in some shallow water (about 1') and filled the bag with Jackall Kaera. In the uploaded video you can see a bass missing the frog and grabbing a wacky worm that I threw right on top of where it missed the frog. We decided to pull out of the spot and head to the other side of the lake to see if the flats on that side produced better. Unfortunately the wind started picking up more and we weren't able to get the frog bite going again. We culled a couple of times on some fish off a rat-l-trap and a popper. Weights- 1st-15.47 2nd-13.33 3rd-12.39 BB- 4.76 Our bag was 10.08lbs In retrospect, given the fish we were catching were mostly in shallow water, we should have headed back up into the marsh or into Silver to see if we could get the frog bite going again.