Changing Weather Smallmouth

After yesterday’s ordeal with the electric motor, I had to finally switch out that motor for the spare in my truck. I was fishing with Kevin & Denis today on Memphremagog for the morning and didn’t want any more problems while on the water. The fishing began with a few smallies caught on a jerk-bait by Denis and a few more on jigs by Kevin but they were rather small in my opinion. I moved around quite a bit trying to locate some of the larger females with no success. All in all, about 10 or so bass were caught & we decided to try another lake to see if we couldn’t find some larger smallies somewhere else. By 12:30 PM we were fishing a trophy lake and it didn’t take long before the first fish came aboard. Unfortunately, it was a lake trout and a little on the small side, so we released it back to the lake. We did a little running & gunning, trying to get into some of the larger bass, but it was really slow. Denis managed to get into a smaller bass of about 3 pounds on a jerk-bait and eventually one around 5 pounds on a super fluke. The rest of the afternoon was pretty much the same with a fish here & there, all on super flukes. Kevin landed one over 4 pounds and several others a little smaller too! The weather finally broke late in the afternoon when the sun came out and the clouds went away. This began a warming trend that got the fish a little more active and the water temps went up to 54 degrees. No wind was present, but the black flies were and this was a real pain to fish in. All in all, a tough day with about 15 or so smallies caught up to 5 pounds!!