Today was an educational day as Robert wanted to learn some new techniques to catch deep smallmouth bass. Unfortunately, the winds were from the N/E at 20 knots and the current flows from the S/W. Pesentation was going to be difficult with these conditions, but I would make it work. The air temps were a rather cool 65 degrees in the morning but warmed into the 80s by afternoon. The water temps dropped down into the upper 60s due to the cooler winds from the north and so did some of the fish as we were soon to find out. A mix of Crankbaits, Spinnerbaits, Senkos & Jigs were used to entice the inactive smallies today. Depths of over 20 feet were where the bulk of the larger fish came from on this day. Smallies close to 5 pounds were the result of our efforts as we caught them deep & slow! Probably only a dozen or so fish were taken, but all quality in size. Overall, a good learning experience for Robert today!!!

What do most people do on their days off? Go to work of course! Thats exactly what I did today! I went to Lake Champlain & fished with my wife Christiane on this beautiful, sunny day. The winds were from the south at about 10 to 15 knots and the air temps were in the upper 70s. The water temps were also in the mid 70s. We mixed it up a bit today with some shallow largemouth in the early part of the day & some smallmouth action in the later afternoon. All in all, about 15 to 20 bass were caught up to 4 pounds on various soft plastic baits. Not a bad way to spend a day off!!

I fished with Nathan on Lake St-Francis today. The wind began light, but by mid day became just nasty. The air temps were barely 70 and the water temps were even lower. Morning sunshine soon gave way to plenty of clouds for the rest of the day. The waves built up to 3 footers by the afternoon making the soft plastic baits impossible to detect a strike. We had to go to faster moving baits like Spinner Baits to get reaction strikes out of the negative fish until the afternoon major arrived. Short striking fish were all we encountered in the morning and it was a treat to finally have some action in the afternoon. About a dozen smallmouth were caught up to almost five pounds by the time it was all over. Tough Bite!!!!

I had a few days open, so I decided to head to Lake Ontario with Rick for some Salmon action. The weather really held out as we had most of our time on the water in little to no wind. The waves & weather started to act up on the last morning, but we were heading home anyway. Probably about 12 Salmon and a few Lakers were caught with many other Salmon getting off or just breaking us off. We fished for a total of about 17 hours during the time there & had a blast fighting these big bruisers up to 26 pounds. Now that is how to spend your days off!!!

I fished with Alex & his two daughters, Erin & Kalie this afternoon on Lake St-Francis. The air temps were upper 70s and the water temps were around 71 degrees. Soft plastics were used to catch the 12 to 15 bass that were landed today. Erin was a whiz at the netting, so I let her have fun netting both her sister’s & father’s bass after I saw what she could do. Theres just something special about seeing children this age catching the biggest fish of their lives! Kalie, age five, landed the biggest bass today at a whopping 4.5 pounds. Both her sister & father had fish of almost equal size as well, but Big Bass honors had to go to the littlest girl. All in all, a great way to spend the afternoon, right down to the last cast when Alex landed another 3.5 pounder!