Union County Honey Hole: Revisited 5/30

[Jigman13]

Hit the same Union County lake I've been focusing my time on this season and was wonderfully rewarded after work today. Fished from 7-830 PM. Started tossing senkos in pumpkin seed and june bug colors--nothing after a bunch of casts. Switched over to old faithful--1/4 oz white spinnerbait. 3rd cast my lure got absolutely remodeled by a 21 inch, 3.5 lb largemouth. Fish hit after my 3rd or 4th crank of the reel and put up a glorious fight. She tail-walked and tossed and flipped about 6 times and stayed glued. Solid hookset right through the corner of the mouth kept her tied on. Snapped a few shots and she swam away no worse for wear. Continued to throw the spinnerbait and had a few small strikes. Around 8ish I switched over to a black hula popper and worked it till I called a quits. Had one really nice blow up on it but it didnt stick. I still left with a sh*t-eatin' grin on my face! Here's a pic... Catch em' up!

Nice chunk!

[FASTEDDIE29]

Nice Lm dude. I been fishing there for 30 years and the place still produces big bass, AWESOME! If you happen to catch a pickerel or perch out of there post it up. Im pretty sure the pickerel have been gone for years now. But I've caught a few perch this past winter while crappie fish in. Also used to catch very big channel cats in there, havent seen them pickerel or channels in ages.....

[Jigman13]

Fasteddie, a friend of mine who fishes that area with me caught a channel that was close to 5 lbs last week on a chartreuse buzzbait. I couldnt believe it. I've had them strike swimming lures like Rapalas but never saw one come up and crash a lure on the surface. Pretty neat...

Also, an older gent and a young guy both told me there are slime darts in there. I'm yet to encounter one and I put a decent amount of time into that lake. There are still yellow perch and an insane amount of black crappie in there. Small jigs/grubs under bobbers or micro raps will do the job.

[njfisherman1975]

Any chance we can get the name of the lake...that's a toad!! Good for you...and great picture!

[gspdark1]

Originally Posted by njfisherman1975

Any chance we can get the name of the lake...that's a toad!! Good for you...and great picture!

I second that. PM us if you don't want it public. Promise to C-&-R if I catch anything.

[Skolmann]

I'd be interested in a PM of the name of the lake as well.

[FASTEDDIE29]

Originally Posted by Jigman13

Fasteddie, a friend of mine who fishes that area with me caught a channel that was close to 5 lbs last week on a chartreuse buzzbait. I couldnt believe it. I've had them strike swimming lures like Rapalas but never saw one come up and crash a lure on the surface. Pretty neat...

Also, an older gent and a young guy both told me there are slime darts in there. I'm yet to encounter one and I put a decent amount of time into that lake. There are still yellow perch and an insane amount of black crappie in there. Small jigs/grubs under bobbers or micro raps will do the job.

Thank for the info. I catch a lot of Crappie in there in november and december and then again in march and april. Big bass have been ruling that honey hole for years. TIGHT LINES!!!

[kyle7683]

Id too like to get the name of that lake

[jiocg1181]

Can you PM me the lake? I have been dying to get a good one locally.