Bass Lures

Well I had a decent fishing trip yesterday out on Kent Lake. I finally got my Dad to go, we planed this fishing trip a day ahead. We ended up waking up at 5am and making it out to Kent Lake around 6:30am. It was just set for a perfect day of fishing: no rain, little bit of wind and some sun to get a nice tan.

The first fish was caught by me of course, caught it on a Mepps spinner with a blue flec Berkley Powerbait worm. Wasn’t the biggest of bass, but it was enough to put me on the board ahead of my Dad. After that I ended up changing lures, put on a Gitzit and caught a nice sized smallmouth bass. He fought pretty good just like smallmouth bass do and got him in the boat without any trouble.

At the end of the day, the score came to 5 bass all together. One largemouth bass by my dad on his Norman crankbait. Two largemouth and two smallmouth caught by me. The lure of the day was the Gitzit, the smallmouth bass just loved that lure. It was the first time I ever caught anything on the lure in Kent Lake. I remember one smallmouth followed it up all the way to the boat, then I jerked it a bit and he bit on it. It was just so astounding to see that. It’s a beautiful sight when you get to see a fish bit on your lure in the water. It’s like you go in to immediate shock and you kind of get an adrenaline rush.

My Dad and I had a really fun day of fishing. Though he ended up casting three times into the I-96 bridge with his crankbait and that was all in a row. The third time he snagged the fencing. Just like in Bill Dance bloopers, he tried to unsnag it from the boat and almost fell in the water. I was just cracking up the whole time. He then realized to just bring the boat ashore and unsnag it from above. I guess fishing experiences like that just brings you closer to your Dad, lol. Had a great fishing trip!

My Dad’s largemouth bass, caught off of a Norman crankbait lure. Was of decent size, ended up throwing it back. It’s good to practice catch and release, just like the Bass pro Kevin Van Dam preaches.

Some beautiful aerial shots of Kent Lake. This was on the huron river side of the lake, just beautiful over there. If I was to have a barbecue, I would definitely like to have it on the huron river side in Kensington Park. It’s so quiet and peaceful over there. It was really sad to see the other side of the lake so weed choked, I never seen it that bad before. There was just globs of algae everywhere, I don’t know what you would call it, fungus of some sort.

Kent Lake was just like glass when we first arrived at the lake. The wind eventually picked up a tad bit to make some nice ripples in the water. It turned out to be a perfect beautiful day for bass fishing at Kensington Park.