crossriver reservoir in ny 5-24 08

[dodgeguy]

i met lp this morning and we were fishing by 6 am.we went to a cove he has caught fish in before and they were just having none of what we were giving.we went almost 2 hours before i connected with the first fish.it was a nice largie i caught on a spinnerbait.a while later i got another on the spinnerbait and that was it for spinnerbait bites.i caught 2 more fish on a wacky rigged senko.lp was the real star of the day as he got on a roll with a wacky rigged esg senko.watching leigh fish this bait is a real learning experience.even though i didn't match him i did learn a lot about his method of wacky rigging.the wind was not bad until later in the afternoon and then it got ridiculous.we had to anchor at times and boat control sucked.we noticed the smallies either had the classic bar markings on them or no bars what so ever.the no bars smallies also had fire red eyes.are this a seperate sub species or are they male and female smallies.i would love to know the answer to that question.here's some pics for everybody.

http://img294.imageshack.us/img294/532/hpim0384vz0.jpg


http://img297.imageshack.us/img297/2628/hpim0386aa6.jpg

[crankybait]

sounds like a nice day. I plan on hitting a reservoir on memorial day. and just a guess here, but maybe they were redeye bass?
http://www.floridaconservation.org/F...art/redeye.gif

[JRL]

Im going with cranky on this one. Either a Red Eye or a Shoal <---- Visibley very little difference between the two fish.

[dodgeguy]

minus the bars on the side.