Flat River
Lowell, MI
Take: Rock Bass (7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16), Bluegill (3)

Snuck in a little fishing this afternoon while Lisa was hanging out with her old friends. Fished the Mill Pond at Lowell, water was warm and starting to shallow up to a point where you can wade the breadth. Started with a Baby Bass Cho on the west side. Caught 2 rock bass (7″, 6″) under the rail pier. Caught another rock bass (6″) down from the rail pier. Waded over to the east side. Caught four rock bass (7″, 6″, 7″, 8″) on a Chartreuse/Blue/White Cho. Switched to Green/Clear and caught 2 more rock bass (7″, 8″) and a bluegill (8″) off the island shore.

Worked: Baby Bass Cho Asai Shad, Green/Clear Cho Asai Shad, Chartreuse/Blue/White Cho Asai Shad
Didn’t Work: -

Flat River
Lowell, MI
Take: Bluegill (1,2), Rock Bass (1,2,3,4,5,6), Smallmouth (5,6,7,8,9)

Snuck a little fishing in on my vacation day. Started on the west side of the mill pond. Caught rock bass (7″) and a smallmouth (10″) on a green/clear cho. Switched to Firetiger and caught 2 more rock bass (8″,8″).  Moved over to the east side of the pond fishing with a baby bass cho. Fishing from the wall towards the barrels caught a rock bass (7″), smallmouth bass (12″) and two bluegills (8″,8″). Moved up towards the east dam and caught a rock bass (7″), smallmouth (12″) and another rock bass (8″) still on the same lure. Switched to a Chartreuse/Blue/White cho and caught 2 smallmouth (14″,16″).

Worked: Green/Clear Cho Asai Shad, Firetiger Cho Asai Shad, Baby Bass Cho Asai Shad, Chartreuse/Blue/White Cho Asai Shad
Didn’t Work: Perch Zander Shad, Bass Cho Asai Shad, Black/White Rapala(#11)

Campau Lake
Alto, MI
Take: -

Fished at the Campau Lake public access. The water is very shallow with some vegetation to the north, and toward the south end of the access at the dock the water has some depth, but lacks clarity. The water is still somewhat cold for mid-may and the fish did not seem to be active.

Didn’t Work: Tennessee Shad Husky Jerk, Smoke SubWart, Chartreuse/Black Baby 1-, Baby Bass Cho Asai Shad, Black/Silver Seeker Shad, Chartreuse Spinnerbait

Campbell Lake
Alto, MI
Take: Crappie (1)

Finished the evening at Campbell Lake. Fishing directly off the boat launch in the only weed free line with a Storm Big Bass Crank caught a litlle Crappie (9″). Some other fish following the lure, but the water may be off temp still as they were not overly motivated.

Worked: Storm Big Bass Crank Baby Bass
Didn’t Work: Rapala DT-4 Bluegill

Grand River
Grand Rapids, MI
Take: Smallmouth (50,51,52)

Fished downtown tonight. Couldn’t find any of the usual suspects under bridge or on the wall. While fishing the wall a hen mallard walked right up to my side, looked up at me and started quacking at me as if to have a conversation. Very interesting to have a duck walk right up next to me. We went across the ped bridge to the other side and fished the east side for the first time. Waste of time. Finished up under pearl, caught 3 smallmouth bass (11″, 10″, 10″). The first one gave me quite a fight wrapping itself around some branches in the water. Took a while, but wound up having a good night.

Worked: Baby Bass CHo Asai Shad
Didn’t Work: Chartreuse/Blue/White Cho Asai Shad, Green/Clear Cho Asai Shad, Red/Clear Asai Shad, Firetiger Asai Shad

Flat River
Lowell, MI
Take: Largemouth (5), Rock Bass (36,37,38,39,40,41,42,43,44), Smallmouth (45)

Making my way down the barrell stream yielded a 5″ largemouth under the cross stream log. Under the east tressel there was a rock bass (7″). Caught two more rock bass off the end of the pier (7″,8″). Found a smallmouth (11″) in the hole downstream of the pier. Strangely, it was the first smallie I caught in the last fifteen fish. Caught another rock bass (6″) in the same spot. Finished upstream of the pier and caught a few rockies (8″,9″,6″,6″,6″). Pretty good night.

Worked: Green/Clear Cho Shad, Baby Bass Cho Shad, Firetiger Cho Shad

Grand River
Grandville, MI
Take: Smallmouth (30)

Fished the picnic area at hopewell mounds this morning. The water is about back to normal flows now, with the level dropping nearly four feet from when we there a week ago. The drainage channel is absolutely filled with minnows which led me to believe something larger would have to feed there at some point. After an hour of patient fishing a smallmouth rolled up into the channel abnd started snipe feeding on the minnows. He also took an interest in my baby bass matzuo and I was able to land him at 11″. Unfortunately, he seemed to be the only one in the area.

Worked: Baby Bass Asai Shad
Didn’t Work: Perch Zander Shad, Firetiger Zander Shad, Blue/White Jr. Thunderstick, Green/Clear Cho Shad

Grand River
Ada, MI
Take: -

After dinner, headed out to ada. The point is accessible again now that the water has receded, however, there is a massive tree that fell at the end of the point which while the water remains high is making the area inaccessible to fishing. Had to settle for fishing the backwater. Dad caught a rock bass, but I couldn’t stir anything up.

Didn’t Work: Black/White Seeker Shad, Smoke Midwart, Bluegill Shad Rap, Baby Bass Asai Shad

Thornapple River
Alaska, MI
Take: Smallmouth (31)

Finished off the day at Alaska. Caught a little smallie (9″) in the current breaker in the deeper water.

Worked: RedCraw Blaze Shad
Didn’t Work: Green/Clear Cho Shad, Firetiger ThinFin, Chartreuse/Blue/White Asai Shad, Rainbow Vibrax (#4), Natural Craw Hot’N'Tot, Orange Hot’N'Tot