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a few smallmouths. I decided to take
Emma, my 8-year old granddaughter, as
she wanted to try fishing out of her
own kayak. We were only there about
an hour and she was playing in the wa-
ter more than fishing. I had one fish hit
my plug but missed it, so I told her to
throw her line in the same spot. One
cast and the fish nailed her plug – a
Firetiger Jitterbug. Emma caught the
big one – a 3.5 pound, 19 inch small- Emma’s big Smallmouth! Photo by Randy Byham
mouth! It scared her so much pulling
her kayak around that she only wants to fish out of the tandem kayak with me now.
There were quite a few boats on the lake that evening. A couple of days ago I went back
there but noticed there were no boats anywhere. When I got on the water, there was
what I am assuming was a green algae bloom on the surface of the water and extending
about 6 inches deep. Not sure if that is a yearly occurrence or not. But the fishing was
fun while it lasted!”

ERIE COUNTY

Presque Isle Bay

Dave Lefebre (Erie); filed 10/11: “First time out

with DB in 2015. Too much work to do on both

ends, but in the 20 minutes we actually fished

we had a blast. I caught one 3.5 lb. largemouth

in the bay, and DB caught 2 smallies – a 4

pounder and 5.5 pounder. Perfect quick photo

fish…not to mention Darl’s biggest brownie of

the year! Smallies were in 12-14 feet, taken on

a drop shot 4” green pumpkin Senko and a

black 1/16 oz. VMC Marabou Jig. I caught the

largemouth on a Rapala DT 16 in Helsinki Shad

Day on The Bay with Dave/ photo by db on a 15-foot hump. Messing around for a set-
up shot in the dying mats, I lost two large-

mouths on one of Darl’s dumb frogs – one was

about 3.5 pounds. I went back out the next evening and caught a bunch cranking where I

caught the one the day before! The Bay is in transition; aside from one or two places I’d

say it’s pretty tough right now.”