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Bass
Fishing Report; Castle Rock; June 22, 2007
Castle-Rock
Lake Wis.
Air Temp: 74
Water temp 75
Skies: Overcast
Winds: s/se 7-13mph
I finished up my pre-fishing for the Rick Klein Memorial tournament
Friday afternoon. I had been out twice this past week and it is nice to
know that the Smallmouth definitely have there feed bag on. Earlier in
the week I found quality brown fish in most of my usual spots. Some were
deeper than usual but I did still find some good fish up shallow.
The program for the smallies has really not changed. I have been
throwing the same baits and presentations all year on Castle-Rock. I am
pitching a Green Pumpkin “Snack-Daddy” Pro-elite hand poured tube
rigged on a 3/0 Owner extra wide gap hook and weighted with a ¼ oz tru-tungsten
weight. On the weed edges I am making long cast with a June bug colored
¼ oz swim jig. This program has worked all year for me.
As a rule, Smallmouth may get you a check in any summer tournament on
the “Rock” but to win, you will need some quality green fish in your
bag. I have had a hard time locating numbers of largemouth this year,
until yesterday. I decided I was going to make a run down to some main
lake, off shore rock piles that have held fish in years past. I have
been to this spot several times this year with no success. With the
spawn well over, I was hoping to find some fatter smallies on these
piles but was pleasantly surprised.
I located the humps in 18’ of water and dropped a Fisherman’s Marker
buoy on each. I was throwing a Carolina rigged Brush Hog with the tail
dipped in spike-it. On the first cast I got bit and set the hook on a
fat 20” largemouth that weighed 4-14 on the X-tools. I threw back in a
caught a solid 3lb fish. I then bent my hook and got bit 5 more times. I
never made it to the second rock pile 30 yards away and decided that was
all I needed to see.
The first Rock Pile largie. Larger than my 181/2 bump board.
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