First trip after moving to New York

[Bender]

Finally got enough things unpacked to get the boat out for the first time after moving here. I went to Upper Saranac Lake for a few hours from 3-7:30 P.M. and had some fun, the lake is huge and will take me a while to figure things out. First thing I found was a rock pile in 25-28' that had several smallies on it, here's my first bass as a New Yorker:


I moved around a bit exploring and found some small bass and was surprised by how many fish in general are in the lake, lots of perch! I found some bass chasing schools of perch in a weedbed near an island in 7' and caught this one on a jerkbait:

He coughed up an 8" perch on his way to the boat. Found another spot with bass busting on perch like crazy and had at least 20 blow ups on a spook but no hookups. ? Very strange, so I threw the jerkbait again and that seemed to work a lot better.

Here's a couple other pics of the lake near sundown:




What a pretty place, I can't wait to get back out there. I'll try to remember my camera next time and not just the phone, but I have not found it yet in the mess of boxes still waiting to be unpacked.