Flat River
Lowell, MI
Take: Smallmouth (12), Rock Bass (13)

Went back to Lowell again wednesday night. Caught a smallmouth (13″) on Green/Clear asai shad while drift fishing under the first rail bridge. Worked around the pond without much success. Caught a rock bass (7″) under the second rail bridge.

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

Flat River
Lowell, MI
Take: Rock Bass (11,12), Smallmouth (10,11)

Fished one more time at the mill pond before the holiday weekend drew to a close. Caught 2 smallmouth fishing off the east wall (12″,13″) with a green/clear cho and a tennessee shad husky jerk. The water level continues to recede. Jumped in and fished off the buildings near the damn with a red/clear cho. Caught two rock bass (7″, 7″).

Worked: Green/Clear Cho Asai Shad, Tennessee Shad Husky Jerk, Red/Clear Cho Asai Shad
Didn’t Work: Firetiger Cho Asai Shad, Baby Bass Cho Asai Shad

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)

Grand River
Lowell, MI
Take: -

Started at the boat launch. Lots of fry in the water and quite a few shad running through, but nothing of any size.

Didn’t Work: Baby Bass Big Bass Shad, Black/White Mid Wart

Flat River
Lowell, MI
Take: Smallmouth (4)

Moved down to the Mill Pond. Didn’t get much fishing in as the mosquitos have gone wild in the hatch and my arms not look like dinner to them. In the short time I did manage to stir up a 14″ smallmouth on a green/clear cho shad. Quite a few nice bass rolling in the shad tonight but it wasnt worth being dinner.

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

Grand River
Grand Rapids, MI
Take: Smallmouth (2)

Decided to get a little fishing in downtown tonight before it cools off tomorrow. Most of the preferred fishing holes remain flooded out including Bridge St, the wall, Pearl St. and the carousel. Fishing below the Pearl St. bridge yielded a little smallmouth(9″). Nothing much else going on downtown right now.

Worked: Baby Bass Big Bass Crank
Didn’t Work: Olive Flash Hot’N'Tot, Green/Chartreuse Fat Free Fingerling

Thornapple River
Alaska, MI
Take: Smallmouth (3)

Finished the night in Alaska. Caught a nice smallie (14″) fishing from the north side of the pool. Water is still too high for much.

Worked: Firetiger Zander Shad
Didn’t Work: Perch Zander Shad, Chartreuse/Black Baby 1-

Flat River
Fallasburg, MI
Take: Smallmouth Bass(1)

Started off at the covered bridge at fallasburg park. Fishing with a firetiger zander shad under the bridge stirred up a smallmouth (13″) near the rocks. Nice surprise as it is unusual to find anything over 8″ near the bridge.

Worked: Firetiger Zander Shad
Didn’t Work: Bluegill Shallow Shad-Rap, Smoke Subwart

Flat River
Lowell, MI
Take: -

Water is still a little too cold at the Mill Pond. Fished under the Rail Bridges and under the covered mill rail.

Didn’t Work: Chartreuse/Black Cho Asai Shad, Green/White Fat Free Fingerling

Thornapple River
Cascade, MI
Take: Largemouth Bass(1)

Water is too high to fish the rocks under the dam. Fished the pond above the dam casting from the fence toward the first outcrop stand behind the fence. Caught a Largemouth (11″) out from the shallows in the rocky area.

Worked: Autumn Zander Shad
Didn’t Work: Firetiger Cho Asai Shad, FireRed Black Fury(#3)

Flat River
Lowell, MI
Take: Rock Bass (64,65,66,67), Smallmouth (53)

Fished in Lowell on the mill pond tonight. The weeds are getting thick and the water low. The temperature is beginning to cool through, and the water is reflecting that. Caught 2 little rock bass (6″,7″) under the railroad tressle. Caouldn’t stir anything up in the thick of the weeds so I moved down the barrel stream to the tressle and caught a smallmouth (9″) and another rock bass (7″). Moving up the island stream I found one more rock bass (8″) in the center behind the rock pile.

Worked: Firetiger Cho Asai Shad, Smoke SubWart
Didn’t Work: Craw Jig (Motor Oil)

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

Grand River
Grand Rapids, MI
Take: Rock Bass (63), Smallmouth (49)

Fished downtown tonight. The water is down below where it was before the floodout earlier this summer. Rather difficult finding the fish. Caught a little smallmouth (10″) off the wall in the shurn on a firetiger asai shad. Fishing under the pearl st. bridge with a threadfin cho shad caught a rock bass (7″).

Worked: Firetiger Asai Shad, Threadfin Cho Asai Shad
Didn’t Work: Chartreuse/Blue/White Cho Asai Shad, Bass Cho Asai Shad

Flat River
Grand Rapids, MI
Take: Largemouth (6), Rock Bass (56,57,58,59,60,61,62), Smallmouth (48)

Interesting night tonight. No fish in the usual places at the mill pond, and no fish taking the usual techniques elsewhere. Pulling cranks with the current through the weels near the barrel stream brought the first success. Caught three rock bass (6″,7″,6″) off the island on a green/clear cho. Using the same method with a smoke subwart brought in a largemouth (8″) and three more rock bass (6″,8″,7″) at the upstream end of the weeds. While fishing the hole down of the pier caught a smallmouth (13″) and a rock bass (8″). The smallmouth had some damage. I’ve seen fish before with iron sores from people leaving hooks in fish, and I have seen fish with damage from fisherman using oversized trebles, but I’ve never seen anything like this. There was a large growth inside the lip and raw swollen skin outside the lip. Not sure if it was an infection or a tumor, but I’m thinking tumor. Strange. Do fish get cancer? Maybe thats a dumb question, but I don’t know.

Worked: Green/Clear Cho Asai Shad, Smoke SubWart
Didn’t Work: Firetiger Cho Asai Shad