A few more pics from Memorial Day week

[WatterBoy]

I shared a few pictures from our first couple days of a week at the lake here. Below are a few pics of some of the better fish I caught the rest of the week, plus a few other random shots. It was a good week to start off the season. Just under 37 hours of fishing spread over 6 days produced 160 total fish for me -- 135 Largemouth, 11 Rock Bass, 7 Northern Pike, 4 Smallmouth and 3 Crappies. Not a lot of big fish -- only 4 LM over 3 pounds, but lots of good fighters in the 2+ pound range.

My friend Jeff is an avid cranker, but we could never really get a crankbait bite going. He did pretty well one morning with a chatterbait and we caught one on topwater every now and then, but since they really seemed to like plastics up in the shallows, we threw Zoomies most of the time. I caught 147 of my 160 fish using a Zoomie. It will be interesting to see how much things have changed when we get back up there tomorrow afternoon for a 3-day stay with my brother-in-law and his family.

One of Boogieman's 3/8 ounce Minnow chatterbaits enticed this 2lb 3oz, 15" LM into inhaling it for a mid-afternoon snack on Tuesday.



A few minutes later I picked up a nice 3lb 6oz, 17-incher on a Zoomie.



Another 3lb 6oz LM came aboard on Friday morning. This one was 17.75" and also succumbed to a Zoomie.



It was in the mid 40s and raining off and on during our last morning outing and we finally both got a 3-pounder in the same outing. Jeff has 2-13 and 3-4 LM and I have the biggest crappie I have ever seen in person (that wasn't in a Cabela's aquarium ) at 13.5" and 1-13 along with a 3-0 LM (both caught on a Zoomie). June 1st and I was wearing 3 layers underneath the rain jacket -- yikes!



And a few non-fish pictures from the week...

Sunset view from our campfire



Early morning raindrops



Sunrise



Not sure what this pose from the loon in our No Wake Zone channel meant...