Larry gave us a call on friday night asking if we wanted to go check out Winchester in the morning and having never fished it before we said yea why not.. We were on the water by 6:30am. Having read reports from fellow members and talking to a few people it seems like one of those places that can be very very slow so our expectations weren't very high. We tossed spinner baits, bass jigs, chatter baits, rubber worms, double paddle tail grubs, osmo's, buzz baits and the buzz baits were the only one to not catch a fish.
The weather was perfect, completely overcast with water temps of 75..We had pretty solid action most of the day around the stumps fishing water from 6 to 11 feet deep. Larry started off with the hot hand having landed 4 fish before me or josh had one. Larry also got one small pike on the bass jig right at the side of the boat. Josh started getting slammed when he put the rubber worm on and then i finally started getting some hits all on the chartreuse spinner bait.
Josh hooked into something very large on the osmo and after a quick fight and screaming drag the fish shook the hook. Was most likely a solid northern. Shit happens but by the end of the day we caught a combined 18 largemouth with a handful around 2 - 2.5 pounds. Nothing huge but all fun, 1 Northern, 4 slim darts, a giant rock bass, and one yellow perch. The dark clouds and thunder chased us off the water around 1:30pm.
Its a very cool lake and very different from anywhere ive ever fished. Can also be extremely dangerous with most the stumps being right there sub surface.. Larry did a great job of navigating us around safely but i could easily see someone going there for the first time and ripping your motor right off your boat so anyone going there.. take it slow. Was hoping for some more action from the pike. But it is mid summer and i dont know how many pike are even in there.
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