Last Day is no frost and rain shortly after we started to fish

Yesterday we had a very hard frost and Pete actually broke one of his Baitcasters trying to push the button down to cast, the Pike moved or weren't biting so we went shallow and caught a few Smallmouth and Largemouth Bass, I was using Chatterbaits and Pete was using Swammers and they seemed to be on Weed and Rock in 1.5' to 3 ' Wednesday and Thursday they were in 8' to 12'. We were throwing bigger baits for most of the morning try for the a Musky or Pike and switching to 5" Swammers, Chatterbaits and Spinnerbaits off and on.

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New Bridge is in place but not open yet.

Be very careful if you're going to this launch some of the cottagers said it's as low as they've seen it. 

3rd day of the fishing trip and this happened

This is Pete's PB Largemouth 20+" and 5.24 lbs caught on a White 5" Swammer at the end of the day, we found a few and had follows, blades hit on our Spinnerbaits, one of mine broke off on 65lb braid must of been a weak spot I didn't see. We caught some smaller ones we didn't take pictures of as one of us kept fishing lol. We caught and/or saw more fish this afternoon than we did Mon afternoon, Tuesday and Wed morning so we moved from Balsam to Dalrymple and will do some of the techniques we did again tomorrow and try a few different ones as well, should be a full day on the water. 

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My turn to get a couple Smallmouth Bass

Started the day off with a HexSeries Banana Curse Spinnerbait and got the skunk out of the boat. Switched back and forth fishing for Bass and Pike Musky a few time before catching a 19.5" 4.2lb Smallmouth on a Flipp'n Jig with an Adrenaline Craw on the back for a trailer to take the lead in the biggest Bass this week so far. 

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First day fishing at Balsam Lake was slow but someone usually catches them

Very slow afternoon yesterday, we definitely missed more than we caught and I didn't get anything but I guided Pete to 4 nice ones in 3 different spots. We both missed a bunch and we have a different game plan for today. Dave and Bonnie were like me washing lures all afternoon. Blackfly Lures Triple Blade and X Zone Lures Swammers did most of work today. It was a beautiful afternoon to be on the water and most of the pleasure boats were pulled out so very little traffic ripping around. 

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Another last minutes Solo Outing for about 4 hours

I didn't decide until after lunch where I was going fishing and when I was getting the boat ready I had my mind changed and headed to a different spot and It worked out pretty good. My biggest Smallmouth was just over 19" and weighed 3.7 lbs. There were lots of Pike caught but they were all clones and lots more biting off the tail on and Swammers or hitting blades on the Spinnerbaits there were some caught on the Nomad Chatterbait too.

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Banana Curse Hex Blade Spinnerbait 

Nomad Chatterbait

Nomad Chatterbait

Beautiful Sun Set

A great way to start Thanksgiving Holiday weekend on the water

I worked the last 2 nights, came home and got 4.5 hrs sleep and back up to go Fishing for whatever was eating. There were lots of Crappie with some Perch a Bluegill and some Largemouth Smallmouth Bass being caught as well Bonnie's biggest was over 19.5"and 3.61 lbs she was very happy kicking my butt lol.

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Chatterbait for the WIN

Hex Blade Banana Curse Spinnerbait

Bonnie really wanted to catch a Bass and then she wanted to catch a bigger bass lol

Our first Double Header of the Day

Chatterbait at work

X Zone Lures Swammer on a Belly Weighted Hook

X Zone Lures Swammer again