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Date: May 5, 2019 Body of Water: Lake St. Clair Boat: Numenon With: A Target: Smallmouth Bass Time: 9 AM - 3 PM Conditions: Clear and bright; 45 - 65 degrees; winds ESE at less than 10 mph. Water varied from stained to muddy (inside 8 fow or so.) Water was generally 51-53 degrees F. Lots of boats out today! So you think you have a starting point; but you turn out to be mistaken! After three hours of pounding 9-12 feet of water from the 400 Club to south of Memorial Park, we hadn't had a bite! And it seemed like most of the other boats we encountered were suffering similar humiliation. A was still enjoying herself, but I was disappointing myself in my inability to catch some fish with her; I was feeling some self-imposed pressure. Inside 9 feet, I believe the water really was too muddy; and what success I'd observed later in the morning had been focused on 9.5 or 10 fow. I spent more and more time with a crank in my hands, covering water, looking for that first bite. But at Noon, it still hadn't happened. Just to get a bite (walleye? drum?), I quickly set a spread of three cranks pulled behind the boat with the electric motor. We'd only gone a couple of hundred feet in 10.5 fow before a rod bent over; a nice, keeper-sized bass had eaten the shad-colored Storm Arashi Flat 7, just a short cast behind the boat. At least we weren't skunked! I reset lines, pointed the boat north at about 1.5 mph, and we soon had a double-header. I lost mine, but A landed a fine, 4.5-pounder that had eaten this same bait. Within a very short amount of time, we had a very refined pattern; 10.5 fow, 1.5 mph+/-, and shad-shaped cranks. The Arashi produced well in sexy shad, produced a few bites in parrot blue/chartreuse, and was complemented well by a KVD Flat 1.5 in yellow/brown perch. A stretch of a few hundred yards, a bit south of Memorial Park in 10-11 fow, produced about 15 bites for 11 landed brown bass. And these were the right bass, as evidenced by a quick 19-pound limit that included a very cullable 2.5-pounder, but also a short, brutish 6-1. Our day was made! What do I have to say about this? I wish I could explain how we went from zero activity to fast-paced fishing, all while fishing kind of the same water with some of the very same lures. I can just accept that there was something special about the trolled cranks, in comparison to casted and retrieved cranks. It made all the difference on this day! I am pleased to have kept at it; I am learning that this lake is sometimes fickle, and very often unpredictable. But the fish are there, and locally abundant. I need to remember to keep working at it, and to change locations and tactics if it's not working out. I could be very pleasantly surprised! Pondering the questions of core essence and finding meaning in unexpected ways
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