5-7-2011

5-7-2011 Sat
2:30 PM- 8:00 PM

Weather: S 10, a few clouds, 67 ˚, 29.80 MB, rising

H2O: 5.35’, falling, 1.98 KCFS, clear, ( ** for my own future reference the place I was fishing needs a bare minimum of five feet of water to get into the spot and I would have to say over eight feet would be too much water for the fish**).

Location: Black River Hwy 93 landing

Caught: Twenty-two pike and two largemouth bass

Partners: None

Comments
Holy pike! That is how I would have to describe the pike action today. It was just incredible. The fish were not big, but they made up for it in sheer numbers and aggression. There are a ton of twenty to twenty-two inch pike cruising the local waters.
Almost all fish came on my favorite Terminator spinner bait. In fact I could not get them to hit anything else. I even tried a buzz bait after Buzz Bait Matt had schooled me in their use the other day, but they pike did not want anything to do with them.

Observations
The black river is in pretty decent shape, but it sure looks as if the bottoms got slammed by high water this spring. Another pretty amazing observation for this time of year was that I only saw one mosquito! Normally the little blood sucking devils are almost unbearable down here.