It was too cold (52ish) in the morning for Debbi, so Dad and I hit the water. We headed for Mallets Creek, since we were able to get on fish there yesterday. 2nd cast...nailed a decent Pike!
We ended up getting about a dozen Largemouth in the first 30-45 minutes. We left there and hit a spot that looked good on the map. Dad ended up slipping off the back of the boat and got soaked. So, I took him back to the house and picked up Debbi.
We hit Mallets Creek, then Inner Mallets Bay. We found Smallies and Largemouth starting to bed on the west side of the bay.
After searching around a bit, we ended up at Lamoille River and got on a really cool pattern. This is a slow river with decent depth (to about 10 feet). Where the river meets the lake, there are downed trees all along the banks. It took a little while to put it together, but here is the pattern... Outside bends on both sides of the island (more current). Downed trees that extended to the drop off. At first, it seemed the trees were random, but the trees that extended to the drop from 3 feet to 7-9, were definitely the ticket. In these trees, we found packs of post-spawn smallies in groups of 6-30 fish. If you snuck up on them, you could actually see them in the branches.
Long casts with spinnerbaits as we approached and then tubes and drop shots as we got closer, put smallies in the boat.
We also picked up a couple of nice Pike on the spinnerbaits.
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