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.

I've never seen Couchiching so clear we could see everything on the bottom up at the bowling alley

We ran around and tried for Pike and Largemouth in a couple places and then hit the Limestones and saw a few Smallies cruising around but we could one get this one to commit to anything we were throwing, we only stayed about 3 hours on the way home just to try something different. We'll likely be back next year for another trip for Bass Opener.

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3rd week of October 4 days in a row Sunny Skies and No Rain with a bit of wind sometimes

Another beautiful day on the water, clear blue skies, no wind and clear water made for some tough fishing but we put a few nice ones in the boat and had another bunch of small ones I wasn't getting the camera out for lol. We ended up pulling the boat out around 6pm and the parking lot was full with a few guys launching their boat going for a night fish for panfish.

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Texas Rig Muscle Back Craw

Partners switched for Tuesday on another beautiful sunny day

First thing I heard was I want to use the rod and reel you were using yesterday lol. This is what happens when you get to use the guides personnel equipment sometimes. There are days that the color of the jig head and the size and color of the X Zone Lures Swammer make a really big difference and a couple of the days this week it did, everything seemed to be really picky and the water temperature was between 56 and 63 degrees. I think Bonnie had about 5 fish in the boat before I caught 1 she was awful close to being kicked out of the boat onto one of the islands to fend for herself lol. 

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Texas Rig with a Muscle Back Craw tricked a few as well.