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Yesterday I left the house around lunchtime, drove a little over an hour to St Mary's Lake, and launched around 2pm. I was hoping to kill a few hours on the lake and have a multi-species day like my previous trip a few weeks ago where I caught bass, crappie, bluegill, green sunfish, and yellow perch. I had the opposite kind of day, catching small bass exclusively. I had 3 pickerel and a crappie on the line but each one came off the hook before I could land them.
It was scorching hot yesterday and extremely windy for much of the trip which made it tough to fish in a lot of spots. Later in the evening it got overcast and calm with storms in the distance. I got bites on just about everything I threw, including weedless 3.5" paddle tails, texas rigged worms, beetle spins, and I even got a couple bites on a frog worked through lily pads - I landed one of them:
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I finished the evening with 14 bass, the largest was not a whole lot bigger than the one pictured. From my experience fishing this lake over the years it can be good for numbers but I have never caught anything sizable there.
It was scorching hot yesterday and extremely windy for much of the trip which made it tough to fish in a lot of spots. Later in the evening it got overcast and calm with storms in the distance. I got bites on just about everything I threw, including weedless 3.5" paddle tails, texas rigged worms, beetle spins, and I even got a couple bites on a frog worked through lily pads - I landed one of them:
20230715_150824.jpg
I finished the evening with 14 bass, the largest was not a whole lot bigger than the one pictured. From my experience fishing this lake over the years it can be good for numbers but I have never caught anything sizable there.
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