We met at 9am to grab the boat and head to the lake, I mentioned drop shotting has been working but he did his own thing trying lots of different techniques with no success and then I asked what size line he was using and it was too big so I gave him one of my rods and he started catching smaller bass and then he retied his rods and started catching a little bit bigger until he finally catch a 4.5lber and was very happy. There was a crew there with gill nets gathering some different species and 1 was a Coho Salmon, there were Smallmouth Bass, and a Sheephead (Fresh Water Drum) as well. They pulled and moved the nets around about 4 different times so that was a bit of a issue but we worked around them and had a successful day with my biggest being 20.5" Smallie. 

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Boat pulling the net and the crew on the dock with a pool full of water

Different day different location bouncing around to try a few different location's

Tried a new spot on Tuesday and caught a couple of nice Smallies on a very windy day, Drop Shotting put them both in the boat. Nice to checkout different location's and see what's happening around my home lakes.

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Another AWESOME Day on the water Drop Shotting mostly

This first Smallie was caught on the second cast and it just kept going up from there 2.75" Swammers and Whiplash Shad 3.5" in Baby Bass were what caught most of the fish today but an Urchin caught a couple as well.

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We didn't get enough time on the water this past week so

Dave and Bonnie came home Wednesday and Pete and I came home Thursday and I was thinking of fishing until Friday so I booked sometime on Lake Huron for the Afternoon/Evening and Bonnie was able to join me for the afternoon part and she was upset with me catching all the fish while trying a few techniques until the Drop Shot really started working and I gave her my fishing rod and then she started catching them and then wouldn't give me enough time to tie another one between her catching them all. Urchins, Swammers and Drop Shot were the techniques that helped put the Smallies in the boat. There were lots of smaller ones caught but we didn't take time to take pictures as we were hoping to catch more before the other guys fishing around the area figured it out.

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Start of our yearly fall fishing trip

We headed up to Dalrymple Lake on Sunday to start our fall trip on a sweet little lake, the parking lot was full and there were trucks and trailers parked on the road as well, it was windy but manageable and we bounced around checking out different areas. Water temperature was around 56 to 60 degrees depending on which side of the point we were on. With the sun out it was a beautiful day for the 3rd week in October. 

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A-Rig works around here as well with 2 small swimbait on the top 2 wires without hooks, 2 small jigs with 2.5" Swammers on the bottom and a 4" Swammer on the middle one. 

My docking spot for 2 days, the water was low so I pointed my nose into shore beside the dock and tied up to it and lowered my motor to hold the backend in one spot, when I tried to pull in along the dock my boat bottomed out about 2' away from it so this worked fine for us. 

The bass seemed to hit it better than the pike as most of them were just barely hooked.