[avidangler]

Today i arrived at Winchester around 2:30pm.
It was pretty warm and i petaled straight for the shade on the edges and headed for the back cove. I finally made it there and was on a mission.
I planned on throwing. and trolling only 1 lure.It was my new replacement for the one i lost catching walleye at Batterson park.What else could this lure catch?
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After a couple of casts.

I worked around the far left cove casting around the lilly pads and stumps .
I started trolling out of the cove and out into the stump fields.
I picked up a crappie

Then a few rock bass

I headed back towards the big cove by the launch and picked-up a pickrel.
Had to take a picture of this.Which is bigger?

I lost a yellow by the side that had to be 2-3 inches.I couldn't believe it.
I worked around the cove and hooked into a 3 plus pounder bass finally.It made a jump to say NO..NOT TODAY ..and sent my lure flying back at me.
Would have been nice to get that bass but,that will be another day i guess.
I reeled in and called it a day.Pike.perch.rock bass.crappie.pickrel and almost a bass that would have rounded out the day had i landed it.

Lure of the day...Rapala SCRM-11 FIRETIGER
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...Randy...

Leeway and elbow room.There's plenty of water to fish!


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"If we concentrated on the really important stuff in life,there'd be a shortage of fishing poles."

[PECo]

I'm amazed that you didn't lose the Rapala while trolling it through the stumps! You have to love the variety of fish in there.

Winchester Lake has very clear water. On a sunny day, all of the largemouth bass are under cover, whether shallow under vegetation or deep next to stumps. I once hooked into a 36 inch long northern pike while trolling a square bill crankbait down what I thought was the main channel in the center of the lake, but that was on a totally overcast, drizzly day.
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[therieldeal]

After looking at your pictures… I think I caught a pike yesterday and didn’t realize it, because there shouldn’t be any pike where I was fishing lol… I wish I had taken a picture! I remember thinking “wow this pickerel is a lot darker than I’m used to seeing” right before I tossed it back. Damn.
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PB's:
LMB - 4 pounds - Stump Pond, Thompson
Carp - 11 pounds - W. Thompson Lake, Thompson

Still searching for some toothy critters big enough to be worth weighing...

[Michael]

Just goes to show how Rapala always comes out with a brand new very productive lure every year

[x182dan]