Big Ontario Smallmouth and more Salmon

[thmyorke1]

Had a trip to the Lake Ontario with Nick. It was a targeting late-fall pattern smallmouth. It was finesse bottom bouncing and there was a realization that the bite was very slow with the temps dropping drastically that week.

Fortunately, early on, I got a bite and it was a tank of a SMB. Came to 7 Lbs according to the guide's scale. Wish we measured the length and girth although it was by far the meatiest bass Ive ever caught. Built like the big Hybrid out of Hopatcong.

For the rest of the day in the windy cold nothing else but maybe a bite or two i missed, Nick got a few other landed but only modest sizes.

The rainfall earlier filled up the tributaries so the salmon fishing was good. No steelhead despite a lot of fresh salmon, but I got my first Co-ho at least.



I escaped back to NJ before the 3 feet of snow hit upstate