Perchin 6/25

Well reports have been good so I decided to get out and see how many perch I could get. As soon as we get there we see the perch stacked on the walls but they wouldn't hit anything at all. I eventually hooked into a nice jumbo a few feet infront of me. (I think it's a softshell bite for sure now). We continued to fish with only one fish to show but when it got almost dark the fish sorta turned on and mike landed 2 nice size perch. So the total fish keep was 5 fish. Will be out tommorow morning bright and early!! Thanks for reading!

Keith aka rootpro6

Ninja night fishermen gone fishin 6/24!

Well me and mike decided to hit up a local lake for some night time buzz bait bass fishing. It was hott as hell out but the water was like glass. We start fishing and within 5 casts mike connects but he lost the fish when it jumped. We keep fishing and action is verryyy slow until I hook up with a nice 2.5# bass. Mike hooked into 2 smaller bass on the midnight special spinner in black/blue. I also connected on a smaller fish on a buzz bait towards the end.
Thanks for reading!

Keith aka rootpro6

Not so hott fishing, hott temperatures!

Well things started off by me pulling a all nighter and fishing opeka
at 130 till about 230 and slept for maybe 30 minutes.
From there me and my friend Creighton went to the lake to try for
perch but we got there a little late and the bite was over except for
a older gentlemen who was catching the perch consistently then he
hooked into something nice. At first I thought it was a coho but it
was way to big for a coho. It was a steelhead. That is the second
steelhead I seen this year landed while perch fishing. Crazy things
can happen though.
After perching we decided to stay down there and meet up with our
friend jp. That is when the temps starting to rise to about 90. We
caught a few largies all together. For about 2 and a half hours we
tried to get this monster smallis to hit but he just wouldn't take
anything and I mean anything. We threw everything possible at him. He
would follow the lure up and get everyones hopes up then just turn
around.
After we left I knoticed I got a farmers tan but not quite a tan, I
was a little burnt!!ughhhh

After a short 3 hour nap and after watchig the cubs game I decide to
hit up a friends private pond for some topwater bass. Wasn't to
exciting but I pulled in 2 11-14 inch bass.

Thanks for reading!!

Keith aka rootpro6

Perching 6/21

Got down to Belmont around 645 or so and stayed till 8ish. Took the bus there so got there a little later than I wanted to. First couple casts didn't get any hits so I move to the mouth and connect on my first cast. YAY!! Not, it's a rock bass which I proudly gave away to another angler who said they taste like crappie. About my 10th or so cast I hook into a perch. Finally!! Then from there until I left it was consistent action. Left with a 7 fish stringer. 2 13 inchers and the other 5 around 8-9 inches. Also I knoticed a lot of snags there. Don't know how many times I had to re-rig. ( I don't know how you minnow fisherman fish there without getting snagged ever time with ur big weight on the bottom). I will have a pic uploaded sometime tommorkw or Tuesday. 8 days and counting until game over!! Sad to say but I still need to get a limit, which I should of had atleast 1-2 by now. Thanks for reading!!

Keith aka rootpro6

Perching 6/20

Got to the lake with my dad around 440 and fished till about 720. Went to my usually spot on the big pond and the bite lasted all of 10-15 minutes. It sucked. Didn't see anyone have any more than 6 perch in their basket. My friend mike popped his 2 fish on his first 2 casts and I thought it was going to be good but nope. After some thought we decided to hit spot x a little further south. Nada going on there as well. Just a guy with 3 decent fish. Sucks but we only have about 10 more days left and I have still yet to have a good day. Hope tommorow morning will be better. Thanks for reading!

Keith aka rootpro6

bassin 6/14

Decided to stop at a pond with a buddy of mine in the evening. This was a pond i fished for a year but never really cared for it casue it was always weedy but i deffiently fish it a lot more now. Tossed a plasic worm the whole time and went 4/8. Lost a lot of fish lifting the fish out of the water but they wernt any bigger than 2 pounds. But my first fish of the day was a nice fish. Probably just about 3.5 pounds.

My buddy mike got into a few nice crappie which means new ice fishing pond!!! He has a monster bass swipe at his crappie as he reeled it in and it caused a huge comotion!!!

Indepedence grove 6/11

Well decided to go to ig with my friend brain. We got to ig around 4 and fished till 730. The bite really didnt pick up till about 6. We started getting lots of hits but couldnt quite set the hook. Brian landed the first 2 fish of the day. Both around 14 inches. I then proceded to throw my plastic worm and i get smashed and i wasnt ready for it then snap. It had to be a hog!!!! I then hooked into a nice 15 inch fish.

We keep working the weed line and we are getting all dinks. Then brian hooks into what looks like a healthy 2.5 pound bass but it jumped right by the boat and shook the hook. I then decided to cast into the weeds and i feel tap tap and i set the hook on this nice 3.5 pounder!!!

Didnt see much other action. My dads friend had a few nice cats pulled in earlier but thats it.

Some Pond action 6/8

Me and creighton decided to hit up a pond that we know holds some monster bass in it. Since it rained the night before we knew that things would be poppin. Whenwhere it rains the inlets there flow with water pretty good and the bass stack up near them and feed on stuff that comes out. We arrive around 230 and we see quite a few boils already. Fishkid gets a quick 14 inch bass.


About 30 minutes later he decided to switch things up to a swimjig since we really dont think it is a frog bite yet due to still having nights in the 50 degree temperature. 10 or so casts later he gets big wack and fish on. It smacked it like a 5 pounder would but it ended up being a 2.5 pounder.

Fishkid keeps working the jig and about 2000 casts later wham!!! He battles this fish and i
quickly run across the pond to snap the picture. He says its about 4 and a half pounds but i saw it is about 5. Looks likes a prespawner as well but i really dont know.


ANd as for me well i missed 2 blow ups but nothing to big. Probably dinks.

Perchin 5/31

well decided to go perching again since conditions were absolutely perfect. Got to the spot around 420 and fished till about 6. Let me tell u it sucked!!! No one was catching fish in great numbers at all. So my friend mike decided that he wanted to try one last spot before considering going home. Abou 20 casts into in i land a nice perch about 12 inches.

We really didnt land many more fish at all except for a few gobies and rock bass. i lost 2 bigger fish which were probably perch but they came unhooked.

Thanks for reading,

Keith

Slow perchin 5/29

Got down to the lake front around 515 and fished till 630. My friend mike popped 2 nice size perch on his first 2 casts. So im thinking hell ya this is going to be a kick ass day. Think again people. Wrong. Only managed 2 more keepers throughout the morning. No one else was catching perch either. I only got 1 perch around 8 inches and the other 3 were between 8-10 inches which were caught by mike. Weather was perfect but the fish just were not cooperating. We will see what tommorow brings. Hopefully some nicer fish. Until then goodluck!!

Keith

Perching 5/25

Well being tired as hell i still decided to get up and go perching in the shitty ass conditions that chi town was experiencing. Got to the lake around 5 and fished till 830. Took home 17 keepers between me and my dad. All of my perch came on a Lucky Craft 65 pointer in the color mat pumpkin. It was deffinetly worth the 15 dollers too.

My dad got his perch to hit a paddle bug with a small jig head on it. The only picture i got was a picture of the perch that i caught in a bucket because i got my phone wet and it crapped out on me when i was fishing.

Perching da big pond 5/24 + Deep Lake

Well decided to hit up the big poind with my friend mike before i had baseball practice at 11. We origonally had planned to hit deep lake in the morning but i forgot all about practice so we decided to just do some perchin. Got to the lake around 515 and fished till about 830. Between the both of us we took home 17 perch all between 9-13 inches. The fishing picked up at about 6 and dies off around 7ish. After that we picked up fish here and there but nothing spectacular.

After i got done with practice we decided to try and hit deep for the evening bite. I got 1 dink bass about 10 inches and that was it. Mike got da skunk but he missed a monster bass that blew up on his frog and took him into some weeds. I also missed 2 blowups and had one on but i think i ripped it through its mouth as i was reeling it in cause i muscled it in. Anyways i got a few pics of the sunset that was there.

Perchin Day and Night 5/21

Well i decided to hit up the lakefront with my buddy mike. We arrived around 630 and fished till 820. On my first cast i got a hookup into a dink perch. At this point im like on they are atleast in. Mike ends up hooking into the 2 biggest catches of the morning. One that pushed 13 inches and one around 11.5. I had gotten 2 smaller ones around 9 inches.

I felt like going back for the evening bite and i did pretty good there with a few of my friends. We ended up taking somewhere around 20 perch but only took home 10. Got a nice fat 14 incher as well. All on minners. Sorry for thre bad picture as my friend has no idea how to snap a photo. And in the second pic u can see how crowded it was at the lake front.

Opeka 5/18

got to opeka around 2 and fished till 7. I went 4/5. I fished solo ill about 345 and i got all my fish before my friend creighton got there. I got 3 of my fish on traps and they were all around 2 pounds. Got my last fish on a senko. Fishkid got big fish of the day. A 3 pounder on a senko. He ended up the day 5/5. some of fish came on a craw along the bottom and he also got a few on a senko. Also 2 on his trap.

BIG FISH ^^^^^ ABOVE

doesnt look like it but its 3 pounds or more

late Delevan / Beck lake report 5/16- 5/17

Got out to Lake Delevan in wisconsin with my friend mike and his pal hank around 630. Im not even going to write a lot but here is a quick summary. We threw everything for bass from spinners to jigs to senkos wiht a big fat goose egg. Same with the crappie. It seemed like the bite was non existent. Mike had a follow up on his rattle trap. A snake pike it was. Didnt look like anyone had gotten anything really either. I also lost my 12 doller rattle n vibe that i abs. love. It outproduces all other traps.

After stopping at the Brat stop in ktown we made our minds up to try and redeem ourself by going to the harbors at night but we got the skunk there as well.

Well decided to go to beck lake the next day to try for some crappie. We got there around 615 and stayed till 815. We managed only a handful of keepers. If we had gotten there sooner im sure we would of cleaned up. I got the bous fish of the day. A pike that went about 22 inches on a small fathead minnow about 3 feet infront of me.

Quick Beck Lake report 5/14

got to beck around 330 and fished till 6. I got the big skunk today. Through everything at them. Traps, spinners, dt's, plastics, jigs. Couldn't get a hit. Saw some people catching slab crappies tho. Also the guys who were catching the crappie reported that they caught 3 northerns. All about 15-20 inches and on large roaches about 3 feet down. Lot of people out fishing today as well.

Independence grove/ lake opeka 5/6

Well got started fishing with my friends around 545 and within 20 minutes I hook what I thought was a monster bass but after about 5 seconds I knew it was a foul hooked carp. I got it in relatively quickly because I had 50# powerpro on. It was a beast im guessing 15+ pounds. So we keep working the shoreline and I pick up a dink 10 incher

About 30 minutes goes by and all of sudden I feel like I snagged a stump but it was coming in so I set the hook and I had a absolute pig on my line. To my surprise when I got it in to shore it had a monster crappie still in it's mouth and the crappie was still alive and kicking. Im very surprised he hit my lure when he already was stuffing his face. Sad to say but I don't think he will live because he wasn't really swimming well when I put him back in. Those bass tend to do that a lot and they kill themselves that way. It was aleast a nice 4 pounder. Maybe even 4.5 but 4 without a doubt.

Decided to hit a shore line that was very calm and about 10 minutes goes by and I slam a 2.5 pound bass. Also saw some guy bring up a healthy 4 pound eye near the same location on a crawler.

On our way back we decide to hit a local lake that is close to us. Don't forget it's now like 9pm. So I decide to rig up a topwater since I saw a lot of action a ig and I thought the water was pretty warm actually. So I didn't have any luck but my friend matt pulled up 2 pigs. One was about a 4.5# bass and the other a 2.5# bass. Both hit very close to shore where a runoff pipe was stationed.

Bait of choice today was a rat l trap in bluegill pattern. Also matt used a very shallow crank to get his fish.

Pictures will come tommorow once they are uploaded.

Thanks for reading,
Keith aka the rootpro!

Deep Lake Report 5/2 followed by mighty perching

Well i had some plans to go to deep lake before heading out of waukegan to go perching. Got on the water around 645 and stayed till about 1045. About 10 minutes into fishing i picked up a fat 12 inch bass on a rat l trap. Action was consistent today and most bass came on the deeper weed lines. Saw some nice fish cruising the shallows also. All the fish i got came one 1/4oz. blue/chrome rat l trap ripped through the weeds. My friend mike got his also on the same color rat l trap along with some fish hitting his sexy shad trap. Here are a few fish that i got!

We then packed it up and headed down the road to waukegan. We waited for a few friends to show up and we were off. Fishing for perch was very slow for the first 3 hours or so. We only had about 8 fish in the cooler between 6 of us. Then all of a sudden we all hooked up witha jumbo within 30 seconds and it was lock and load from there on. In a 45 minute span i would say we landed about 40 jumbo perch all ranging from 10-14.5 inches. All the other boats quickly picked this up and they were in on some action as well. Me and mike probably had out limits caught but we had to split all 47 fish between 6 of us. All in all it was a great day to be out. Weather couldnt have been any much better. Thanks for reading.

Keith

aka the rootpro

Quick stop at beck lake 4/28

Well after school I decided to hit up beck lake before I had work. Fished from 345-5. Went 0/2 on spinnerbaits work parallel to the shore line. On my 5th cast I hooked into what looked like a 3 pound bass. I'm all excited and go to lip it and the bitch shakes me off right there. I was so pissed! Proceded to walk the shoreline and missed a good strike but set the hook to late. Both hits came on white spinnerbaits.

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Lake Opeka 4/26

Well after having a brutal day saturday at fishing I decided to hit a lake i know would produce some monster bass. My friend mike tagged along and we went ot cabelas to pick up some super secret rat l traps. Soon enough we got to the lake and started fishing and soon enough mike hooks into what he thought was a 4 pound bass but he lost it on shore. 10 minutes later mike gets his first bass of the year. So we keep working the wind blown shoreline and then wham i get a nice 14 inch bass. Nothing to brag about yet. Shortly there after i decide to cast straight out infront of me instead of the shore line and i thought i got stuck on a stump untill i felt a headshake. Well i got her in and she was a healthy 3 pounds and about 18 inches.

Well having said that mike wanted to go work the point that he lost his bass on and so he decided to switch up his bait to a swimbait that he had just bought at cabelas for .75 cents. First cast in he gets hammered 10 feet from shore and he got her in this time. His was probably a little bigger in mine cause the belly was absolutley huge. I would say 18 inches and about 3.5 pounds.

Thanks for reading