Finishing off a great fishing weekend

[WatterBoy]

Sunday's fishing capped off a 3 day spree of some of my best fishing of the year, and I'm pretty sure it was my 3 heaviest bags of the year. After totaling 15lb 2oz for my best 5 on Friday and following that up with a nice 16lb 12oz quintet on Saturday, I finished off the weekend with a 16lb 2oz fivesome yesterday morning. And I lost one near the end of the morning that I'd estimate was in the 3-4 pound class, which would have upgraded the 2lb 6 oz LM I had to count.

I was on the water just before the 7:15 sunrise and within 20 minutes of my first cast, I was hauling my second best ever Smallie into the boat. It weighed 4lb 5oz and measured 18.5". Since I was alone at the time, and since we are in catch-and-release only season for SM here, I had to do the best I could with the self-timer and the "camera perched on top of the tackle box" trick to get a picture.



I also landed two other Smallies and three LM in that same area, all within an hour of starting. After popping back to our dock to pick up Kaye, we headed back to that spot, but only caught a couple dinks there.

We caught a couple here and there, but nothing real consistent or of any size until we hit a shoreline that we hadn't fished together all year. Kaye caught 5 there in short order, but none that hit the 3 pound mark. I was fortunate enough to catch two decent ones (and this is where I lost the one mentioned above) that went 3lb 11oz and 3 pounds even.



This is the shoreline we were fishing to end the morning and where the two above came from. I'm not sure if I spent more time taking pictures of all the amazing colors or fishing!



And here is a shot of our lift/dock (foreground right) in the no wake zone where our cabin is located.