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Lake Arthur Trip Last Night

Posted by Leo Cancilla in Cancilla's Fishing Blog on May 21, 2009

With the bass spawn going on and gorgeous weather my friend and I decided to head to Lake Arthur for a Bass/Striper combo evening. We started by fishing for largemouth and man did we get them. if just 3 hours we boated 20 bass and lost about 15 more because the fish were on beds and just not trying to eat the baits, but they wants them off the bed. At around 8:00pm I decided to go try my favorite striper spot. Each of us were able to hook up with 1 striper and they were both around the 20 inch mark. We were also lucky enough to have a couple walleye strike our jerkbaits. I can’t wait to fry those guys up! Usually, I am a catch and release guy, but occassionally I like to keep walleye or crappie to have a little fish fry.

Nick & A Nice Walleye

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Jerkbaits, lake arthur, largemouth bass, Roadbed, Spawn, Striper, Walleye

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Past Weekend on the Water

Posted by Leo Cancilla in Cancilla's Fishing Blog on May 21, 2009

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I spent another Friday and Saturday at Pymatuning Lake with my dad this past weekend. Friday was a practice day and man things couldn’t have gone better. Everything we threw we caught largemouth and smallmouth. We had a spot where crankbaits were working, another spot where buzzbaits where working, and we even found what we thought was a school of smallmouth on a roadbed. In about 5 hours of being on the water we had boat about 20 bass in about 10 spots and did not set the hook on the same number of strikes.

In the Keystone Bass Buddy Tournament Saturday things went south. We decided that we would start by fishing the roadbed for smallies. Instead we found a school of 13 inch largemouth and about 5 nice crappie. It gave us a nice limit, but these fish were not going to help us win the tournament. We decided to go to the crankbait spot next because the size of the fish should have been better. However, the only thing that we caught in that spot was a 8lb walleye. After a couple of quick stops we decided to go try our buzzbait spot. Instead of a buzzbait bite we found a spinnerbait/chatterbait bite that help us call multiple fish. Unfortunately, we lost 2 fish in that bay that would have help us greatly. In the end we were very disappointed.

dscf1265 Sunday my wife, my friend and I decided to head up to Presque Isle and Lake Erie to try to get some spawning bass. The wind had another idea. It was a very rough day, but we still managed a couple nice smallies and a handful of largemouth.