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Bass Fishing Report; Minnetonka, August 28, 2006

Sunday I was on Waconia, I took a couple days off this week and decided to go fish Minnetonka  Monday just for kicks.  I got on the lake at about 7:30 - it was cloudy, and rainy.  I started with a favorite early morning spot of mine, a flat adjacent to a secondary point full of cabbage.  I started with a black buzzbait and on my 3rd cast had my first action, it was about a 25" pike.  A couple casts later a small bass smacked the topwater bait and shook it off at the boat.  I had two more blow ups, but no more results.  It was now about 8:15, I decided to go and see if I could find a few new spots.  I spent the next 3 hours fishing spots I had never fished before, working some deep points and weed edges in the bigger bays on the East side of the lake.  It had been raining steady for 4 hours, and I knew it probably wasn't the prime conditions for finding deep fish.  I had very little action on these spots, a few bites, nothing to really speak of though.  I did however find a few spots with deep rock/weed transition zones that I know will hold fish at some point....so it wasn't a complete loss.  It was now about Noon and I decided to scrap everything I was doing and completely change modes. 

Changed half the rods on my deck and moved across the lake to a few smaller bays on the Northwest side of the lake.  I pulled up to a large lily pad field I had driven by about a million times without ever fishing.  The rain had let up, but it was still windy and overcast, I started pitching a black/blue pig n' jig into the pads.  About 5 pitches later I set the hook and watched the pads boil up, the fat bucket mouth measured 19 1/4 inches and weight 4.4 lbs.  Two pitches later I caught a 14 inch fish in the same section of pads - no more than 10 yards from the first fish.  I found my pattern, I caught 3 more quality bass in this pad field in about an hour. All between 15 and 17 inches with one dink mixed in.   I then went and fished an adjacent pad field about 50 yards away, a few more fish - nothing huge, but decent fish.  By this time it was 2:00 and I decided to head back towards the landing.  On my way back I decided to stop at one more pad field I had fished a few times before.  I arrived and carp were rolling and bumping pads all over the place, now pitching a 5inch pearl yum dinger I hooked up with another healthy pad fish.  I fished through the field with no more bites.

The sun never did come out, nevertheless the fish were consistently in the pads.  Pads with some foil surrounding them seem to hold a few more fish.  Most of my bites, and all of my quality fish came from pitching jigs into the pads.  A few fish were on the outside edge as well, but they tended to be smaller.  I was off the lake by 3:30 and just starting to dry out, but I'll take the water for a few nice bucket mouths any day!