On saturday Josh and I wanted to find a place to fish that had a wide
variety of fish.. we wanted bass and pike so our options were... pachaug
(30 boat T) mansfield (20 boat T) Bantam (hasnt been good this year)
then remembered lilly. Only fished there twice before and both times it
was late novemeber so we gave it a shot. In the water by 7:30 and water
temps were 61.5. The launch was really tough with the water down about 4
feet but we made it happen. Started off throwing big jigs in lay downs
and i got the first fish of the day about 20 minutes in. 1.5 lb
largemouth. We went on to hit some nice weed beds on points and found
very little action. Tried slow rolled spinner baits, crankbaits, swim
baits and drop shot.
Got a few more largemouth on the jigs and then went
to the one big hump on the lake and i got followed twice to the boat by
a massive pike. It was probably close to 40 inches and was fat as could
be. While using the trolling motor to get to the other end of the hump
josh cast out his swim bait and gets his first ever smallie while
trolling. Then nothing... went to another point and i caught a smallie
and a largemouth on back to back cast on the drop shot on a ribster.
Both keepers but just barely. Thought maybe we found a pod of fish but
then all went quiet. Hit a small cove and josh gets blasted by a
northern boat side and it jumps no joke 3 feet high almost into the back
of the boat. When it lands back in the water it was gone.. ughh! Oh
well on our way back to the launch around 2:30 we caught 3 more bass off
of wood on the jigs. The wind got nasty and we called it a day. Ended
up with 7 Largemouth 3 Smallies 1 lost pike and a monster follower.
Shocked to see the amount of boats out there fishing. we will be back.
All of our bass were between 1 to 2 pounds.
Good work guys!
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