Went to Paw Paw Lake for my now annual birthday fishing trip. Ended up by myself, a couple buddy's ended up being busy. Got there around 6 am at the west
launch. Surprisingly the moon was out and it wasn't terribly cold, around 40-45 degrees and pretty windy out of the west. Started fishing right from the
launch in the channels because I've usually caught a fish or two in them. At 6:45am I landed my first bass on a senko casting into a leaf filled boat slip
spot not to far from the launch. I purposely decided to follow the superstition about leaving the net and measuring board locked away until the first fish was
in the boat. The bass was 18 1/4 inches and 3 pounds 4 ounces so I put him in the livewell hoping for a nice picture at the end of the day. Well, I think
that began the livewell curse because it was slow after that. I spent some time in the channels trying the senko, a new sexy shad crankbait which I may have
missed on bite on, not sure, a buzzbait, a jerkbait, a 3/4 oz spinnerbait, and a rattletrap. Eventually I worked into the main lake trying docks and the deep
weed edge. I moved over to a large mainlake point between the two main lobes. It was windblown and the water seemed a bit silty, water clarity was maybe 3-5
feet. Tried a blade bait, jerkbait, spinnerbait and rattletrap. Moved to the other shoreline out of the wind and fished a point there and tried the docks.
Also cast a bladebait in 20-30 fow and ended up catching a decent pike that was probably around 27". I let him shake himself off next to the boat. The
water seemed a bit high as well, most of the docks were down into the water and I couldn't skip under a lot of them. I eventually caught another
largemouth that was 18.5" and 3 lbs 6 oz skipping a senko. The sun was out with little clouds so I thought the dock bite would only get better throughout
the day but no such luck. I tried in the channels a couple times and some docks in the southern part of the lake that were out of the wind. I fished till
3:30 and water temps ranged from 50-51 degrees. 2 bass, 1 pike, similar to last years bday trip of 2 3 pound bass, the year before that I landed a 5 pounder
to go with my 2 3 pound bass. Not bad, I go there because of the big fish, and thats what I caught.
Just a nice pic of my boat shining in the sun before I quit for the day.
Just messin' with ya, awesome job!!
