Short Striking on Top

My friend Jay & his wife Kim were my guests today on Memphremagog for smallmouth bass. We began the day in heavy clouds and an extremely low ceiling of clouds and it stayed with us all day long. Air temps climbed into the low 70’s and the water temps were at a maximum of 61.5 degrees at best. There was virtually no wind until late in the afternoon when it began to blow at 5 to 10 knots from the W/NW, but soon died off shortly after. Top-water zaras had the fish fired up, but most of the strikes were short ones. Kim was hooking up with bass on a soft jerk-bait and was up almost 10 fish by the time Jay actually landed one. She definitely had the hot hand today as she managed to land more fish than either one of us. Women & kids always rule! The weather looked pretty gloomy all day long and threatened thundershowers & rain throughout the day. We were fortunate though and barely had a sprinkle until the end o the day when it began to rain. All in all a great day with tough conditions from the overcast skies. Over 50 smallmouth bass up to 3.5 pounds were caught with at least that many or more lost and missed.