Where are the bass?

[briansnat]

Not a bad afternoon/evening. I took the outboard off the boat and set it up with the intent of going to Merrill Creek. As usually happens, I dilly dallied too long and it was late in the day before I got underway so I just hit the local lake (West Fayson).

I had bought some herring intending to hit Merrill so I figured I'd anchor at Fayson and use them. Before I had my second line in the water I had a 15" brown on. Two hours and four browns later (the biggest 18") I was out of herring and because it was evening by that time I decided to give bass a shot. Nothing doing. Not on a chatterbait, not on a Senko, not on a tube jig, not on a Rapala. Where the heck are the bass? They are usually jumping in the boat this time of year. I hit all of my go to spots and nada. Very strange

The biggest brown was bleeding like a stuck pig so I kept him for the dinner table. First one had a little hole in it's belly. Not sure if it's disease or it was on the bad end of a tussle with a pickerel.