Pacemaker Fishing Forum

OK...here we go!

I was to meet up with Patrick at 0615 so I got up early and headed on down to BDR. I got there before 0600 and that included a Mickey D stop! I unloaded the yaks and all the gear but something was missing....what was it? Oh....perhaps the most important piece of the puzzle...my drinks! So I called Patrick and told him I was headed home to retrieve my soft cooler.

I know, why didn't I just go to the nearest convenience store? Because I like my drinks ice cold! I had mine in the freezer so I could have cold drinks all day....which I did.

We got on the water before 0630 after meeting up with T.



Patrick said he had never ventured north so that's where we went. I wanted to go that way too as did T.

It was a spectacular morning and that place has many very fishy places.





But where were they....the feesh?

We threw top water, trick worms, cranks, spinners, brush hogs, frogs etc etc! Nothin' doing!

I did say int was a nice day out right?



Around 1045, Patrick and I met up on the west side to compare our woes. He had missed one fish and I had one little tap. That was it....until I saw a submerged rock and announced to Patrick that there was a fish there. I let my baby brush hog just sit as I chatted with Patrick when I noticed something taking my bait...I set the hook and caught this little....



.....but FAT smallie! OH...skunk is off!

I stayed in that cove and went ashore to rest my hind quarters. I took a few casts while standing and hooked another fish but I lost him when he jumped....another smallie?

It was then that we heard T shout out that he had that monster BG on so we went out to where he was. He had found a nice flat area that had a great drop off. Note to Ernie: INSTALL your depth finder!!!!!

I was casting a toothache spoon and I could feel the bottom. I was hoping to snag, I mean catch something on it. I did get a violent strike (a rock) and when I set the hook, my line broke. Not at the knot but way up the line...it was braided! I wonder if something cut it... Anyway, as I drifted down, I say the line (braid floats) and I retrieved 50-60 feet of it and got my lure back! BONUS time!

Now it was getting close to noon so I started my paddle back but not before I made one more cast with a deep diver. I made that cast so that I could troll it back since I had a good 1/2 mile paddle to the dock.

About 1/2 way back my lure got slammed (those rocks hit hard) and I did the best that I could to retrieve it but the line broke and there went my $5 lure.

Well...I didn't get skunked, I got a ton of sun and exercise, I fished with two great guys and I was home by 12:30.

Not a bad way to spend a morning!

Woah, yak rental?! Where is there a yak rental place? Or was this a personal yak that someone loaned you?

Great pics! I went out on Sunday to Beaverdam and managed a couple of dinks and lost a good one near the dam. The two I caught were on a shaky head w/zoom shaky tail and the one I missed was on Rage Tail Baby Craw on swim jig.

In May, I caught 'em on a pearl colored fluke and on greenish senkos. As well, I caught a few on white spinner baits.

I think that place changes with the weather.

It was also a full moon on Sunday....some folks like it, I do not.

bigjeffie wrote:

anybody else, welcome to chime in w/ favorite colors and techniques for BVD as well...

I usually do well with senkos there, just about any variation of green, gold spinners, and dark colored jigs with craw trailers.