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Lake Sawyer

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Species

Largemouth Bass

Season

Spring (Current)
7 Fishing Reports
19 Followers

Lake Sawyer Overview

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Top Techniques Reported for Largemouth Bass + Spring

Swim Jigs
  1. Swim Jigs
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Total Fishing Reports
7
Top Species Reported for Spring
  1. Largemouth Bass1 Report
  2. Trout1 Report

Fishing Reports

7 Reports on Lake Sawyer

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  • Michael Van Hoff

    Silver Ambassador

    6/18/22

    • Species

      Smallmouth Bass

    • Season

      Summer

    • Technique

      Drop Shot

    • Structure

      Submerged Vegetation

    6/18/22 - Got a bunch of small fish, even drop-shotted a 12" rainbow. Was getting ready to pack it in and decided to do a last cast around one of the islands when I picked up a 3 lb 0 oz, 20" smallmouth. That's the largest smallmouth I've pulled from the lake.
  • Michael Van Hoff

    Silver Ambassador

    6/8/22

    • Species

      Largemouth Bass

    • Season

      Spring (Spawn)

    • Technique

      Swim Jigs

    • Structure

      Submerged Vegetation

    6/4/2022 Dawn to 9AM - Caught a 3 lb Largemouth on a Megabass swim jig with a Zman paddletail body. Good catch for this lake. Also caught a 16" Rainbow Trout on a drop shot of a 3" minnow. Surprise! Several assorted small and largemouth around the shallows. Good day overall!
  • Michael Van Hoff

    Silver Ambassador

    6/22/24

    • Species

      Largemouth Bass

    • Season

      Summer

    • Technique

      Soft Swimbaits (Sm/Md)

    • Structure

      Boulders

    5lb 1oz off cement retaining wall. I selected the Z-Man jighead, but it was actually a cheap Amazon React Weedless, but fished like a swim jig with the hazedong 3" paddletail. Any Ned-size jighead would work for this. I like this as a search rig, the single wire weedguard gives me protection without enlarging the presentation much.. I use a spinning reel because I love the sound of a drag when it's going to work, with a MojoBass 9'6" rod to give me some decent casting distance with such a light presentation. My go-to is dropshot fishing, but after a while, the nose gets pretty ripped up, so I save these to go on the jig. I'd been fishing dropshot of the 3" Hazedong, catching a 1-2 lb small mouth, and a 2lb 15oz small mouth in the drop-off zone near the islands. The larger one was pure dropshot, but the smaller one was on a new technique I was trying out. Basically, it is a dropshot under a slip bobber (slip bobber, swivel, dropshot hook, dropshot weight). The idea is one part, get the dropshot farther away without the loss of angle to the presentation. Second, later in the summer, I plan to use that method to deliver presentations just over the tops of tall weed beds (5-6 foot) to try and coax out the large fish that like to hide there. I've trolled Carolina rigs along the tops of areas like that and done pretty well. Got the idea after some live-bait fishing on Clear Lake, CA. Anyway, the two 2lb fish are a pretty good day for me on my local lake, but still had "just another cast or two" in my head as I was ready to head in. Started swimming that small jig, hazedong through some puny lily pad areas and around some fallen trees on that island. The wind had drifted me to an angle where I was looking down the length of a retaining wall, so I cast up it as far as I could and just did a slow retrieve. That's when I picked up the 5lb large mouth. Must have only been about 3' of water and a long gentle slope back to the lake. I was worried, I only had 6lb flouro on the reel and he took me right to the weed beds to shake me off. But tweaking the drag hear and there, I was able to get her to the boat and netted. My personal record on the lake is 5ib 12oz, so it was a great fishing day for this amateur!!
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