Fishing River bend 9-6-08
I tried my luck at Riverbend lake, a small lake of about 90 acres, nearby Mahomet, Il. A beautiful day in the upper 70′s and partly cloudy. I did have some small success. Using primarily my fly rod I managed to get three bass hookups and caught only one. The first broke my tippet, the second broke loose on a jump and the third I got in the boat. These were caught on a Betts popper, green and yellow with yellow and green feathers. I tried trolling with a red and chartuse rattle trap with no success. I then switched to casting a green/ light green wave worm and managed to hook up with two more bass, caught one and lost the other at the boat. The bass were all small around one lb each except the one at the boat would have gone near three lbs. One exception; I didn’t see the one that broke my tippet. I switched to my other fly rod when I saw some nice size bluegill near the shore using one of my new Accardo poppers. Caught 10 nice bluegill then switched back to bassn’ on the way back to the boat launch area. No further luck. In five hours of fishing I tried Rapala floating 4" silver/black, a pin type spinner with a ribbon tail grub attached, blue and silver, both while trolling – no luck. I tried a new Betts bass popper, size six, in silver and black, not even a follow up. Next time I’ll try drop shotting with my wave worms, This time I fished them weightless and bluegills were nipping at them too, so, maybe deeper is the answer. Well, that’s it for now. Tight lines.
Jim
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