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I decided to do an early morning trip to see if anything would bite topwater.  I was on the water before 5:30am with a nice sunrise.



I ran upriver and tried the mid-river area.  I threw a 90 size Whopper Plopper, but decided that was not the ticket.  I tried a buzz bait and a few sub-surface lures.  I was seeing some topwater activity and kept going back to the little buzzer.  I finally got one to slurp it down and decent 15"er gave me a nice fight on a ML setup.




After that, the bite died down.  I tried different areas, but then stuck with mid-river when it got shallow.  After quite a few casts, a 13"er blasted the buzzer.  He was hooked twice and it took me a minute to get it off, so no picture.  Not injured.

The bite slowed down when the sun got up, so I tried my UL with a 4" lizard.  After a while, I got a bite and landed this feisty 12"er.



I kept floating and finally got some action closer to the ramp.  It caught 2 more smaller bass and lost one that looked to be about 15-16" as I was trying to net it.  It pulled good and jumped out of the water twice. 

I was getting close to the ramp, so I called it a day and was off the water at 11am.  Best day for numbers on the UP in maybe 2 years.  Had to finesse them.

Last edited by drxfish (Jul-01-20 12:54PM)