08-27-2009, 05:56 AM
All this talk of smallmouth and walleyes made me want to go catch some. So I lugged the tube up to Oneida. Usually I fish the river, but for some reason the lake sounded fun today. I got a late start and didn't make it onto the water until 11:30. The sun was hot and the water was glass. I had about a 12" smallie whack a wally diver, but he jumped and flung it right at the tube. The next cast another fish of the same size whacked it and missed right at the tube. Then it quieted down. They quit hitting cranks, so I went for something a bit more subtle. I caught a smaller bass, and then a green sunfish. I didn't know they were in there. I started fishing over a deeper weed bed and felt the slightest tap. I set the hook and brought in a walleye. After that, I was getting some hits and occasionally catching a small bass or a sunfish. I worked my way down to a rock slide and caught about a 12" smallmouth on a drop shotted YUM Dinger. I worked my way back catching a couple more small bass, and a dinky sunfish that was all of 3 inches. How he managed to get hooked on a 4" dinger, I'm not sure. I decided to switch to a Gulp! Minnow and lobbed it up by a fallen tree. Bam! Finally a good fish, it bent my rod double and didn't want to give up. It was quite the little fatty. I caught a few more little sunfish and bass, and then it was time to go to work. I ended up with 1 walleye, 9 bass, and 10 sunfish. Not super fast, but I guess it was high noon on a very bright and calm day.
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