RichZ's Bass Blog

Topwater smallies, Oh my!

RichZ — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 21:47:33 +0000

Cloudless, bluebird skies and not a wisp of wind. It’s not the conditions you would expect to catch smallies on top in, but that’s exactly what happened today. Mostly it was soft jerkbaits, worked along or just under the surface, but this one hit a Sammy splashing across the top.

Also caught them on grubs fished on [...]

Abreviated fishing trip

RichZ — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 20:38:41 +0000

My New York fishin’ buddy “Wild Bill” & I started the morning at the lake whose name shall not be mentioned, and after catching a jillion little bass in a few hours, high tailed it to old reliable Mudge Pond. In the time it takes to put the boat on the trailer, drive from one place [...]

That’s a little more like it.

RichZ — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 22:13:23 +0000

After yesterday’s disturbingly slow day, Jim & I wanted to do something entirely different. So we hit a river for smallies. Three hours later, we’re wishing we hadn’t. On the trailer at 9:30 and we’re off to Mudge.

It wasn’t fast and furious, but we ended up with a couple more bass than yesterday in a [...]

Since when do whitetails lie?

RichZ — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 02:13:57 +0000

I’m usually a big believer in natural signs. Active wildlife equates to active fish, etc. This morning on the way to the lake, we saw more deer along the roadside and in adjacent fields than ever. And there was the largest flock of crows by the lake I’ve ever seen. A group of crows is called [...]

Inexplicably tough weekend

RichZ — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 21:30:41 +0000

My son Tom & I fished Champlain this weekend. The weather was cloudy and warming on Saturday, and rainy on Sunday. Wind didn’t blow enough either day to be a factor at all. Everything pointed to this being an exceptional fishing weekend.

Except it wasn’t.

It wasn’t even average.

Mediocre. That’s probably the best word to describe it.

That and [...]

Busy fishing weekend

RichZ — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:15:44 +0000

Saturday, 8/14

A saltwater trip with Steve & Dave wasn’t great, but it wasn’t bad, either. After hooking up with a triple of stripers on our first drift we thought it was going to be gangbusters. But but things quickly settled down to a slow pick of stripers and blues, plus a sea bass and a porgy, [...]

Would it hold up for two days in a row?

RichZ — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 01:04:10 +0000

Lakeville was so good to me yesterday that we figured we could smack ‘em today.

First, we get to the ramp and there’s a club tournament. I swear it wasn’t listed, but I just checked again, and it was. I’ve got no business griping about it then. Should’ve just turned around and fished somewhere else when we [...]

Finally, Lakeville fished like Lakeville.

RichZ — Sun, 08 Aug 2010 01:02:04 +0000

Not sure what the problem has been, but Lakeville just hasn’t been herself this year. Today though, Lakeville — aka Lake Wononscopomuc — seemed very much like herself. After a sluggish start, I ended up with 34 bass — most of them over 2#, which is what I think of as typical for Lakeville. Got one [...]

Tough weekend

RichZ — Mon, 02 Aug 2010 02:02:20 +0000

This was not a great fishing weekend for me. A salt water trip on Saturday proved a near bust, as I managed 7 or 8 bluefish to Steve’s 4 stripers.

Sunday’s bass fishing was better, but not by a whole lot. Alex & I went to Mudge, looking for a flipping bite in the pads. Ended up [...]

I was a little concerned about fishing Champlain this weekend.

RichZ — Mon, 26 Jul 2010 03:15:14 +0000

Between the Bass Open that ended Saturday and the FLW a week earlier, an awful lot bass had been relocated to the northern end of Champlain recently. How was the fishing likely to hold up in the lower end? How long can the VT and NY Fisheries managers keep allowing the size selective relocation of LMB [...]