Too Much to Eat?

I have been camping for the past few days at a State park in P.A. Got there
Friday and left yesterday. I dragged the RLM with me and had a nice little
launch site below the camp site. Got to fish every day and caught everything
from a small musky to a huge crappie and a bunch of bass and a big old frog.
No size to the bass and not knowing the lake I figured most of the bigger
bass were in deeper water. I did however find a nice cove loaded with weeds
and lilly pads...and about 4 million dragonflies. Big fish were busting
these flies all around me. I could however not connect with a single fish
there. I tried poppers, buzzbaits, speedworms, drop shots, craws, senkos,
spinnerbaits, horny toads and well you get the picture. I'm sure if I had a
"Hover Lure" I would have killed them.

Question" Lack of catching any quality fish in this area due to too many
dragonflies? This seemed like it was all they would go after. I did catch
some bigger fish in the 2+ range but all held to stumps or some sort of
cover out of the heat and away from that area, tons of 12-13 inch fish were
easily located on the shoreline pads and stumps. I'd love to go back there
soon and was wondering what you would try to catch some of these fish?

"alwaysfishking" wrote in message
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I have been camping for the past few days at a State park in P.A. Got
there Friday and left yesterday. I dragged the RLM with me and had a nice
little launch site below the camp site. Got to fish every day and caught
everything from a small musky to a huge crappie and a bunch of bass and a
big old frog. No size to the bass and not knowing the lake I figured most
of the bigger bass were in deeper water. I did however find a nice cove
loaded with weeds and lilly pads...and about 4 million dragonflies. Big
fish were busting these flies all around me. I could however not connect
with a single fish there. I tried poppers, buzzbaits, speedworms, drop
shots, craws, senkos, spinnerbaits, horny toads and well you get the
picture. I'm sure if I had a "Hover Lure" I would have killed them.

Question" Lack of catching any quality fish in this area due to too many
dragonflies? This seemed like it was all they would go after. I did catch
some bigger fish in the 2+ range but all held to stumps or some sort of
cover out of the heat and away from that area, tons of 12-13 inch fish
were easily located on the shoreline pads and stumps. I'd love to go back
there soon and was wondering what you would try to catch some of these
fish?


Try a Dragon Fly plastic on small diameter briad on a long spinning rod.
--
Bob La Londe
http://www.YumaBassMan.com

"alwaysfishking" wrote in
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I'd love to go back there
soon and was wondering what you would try to catch some of these fish?



I fly rod and the appropriate dry fly. Alternatively, a dry fly with a
"casting bubble", so you can cast it with a spinning rod.

Scott

https://www.hover-lure.com/

"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
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"alwaysfishking" wrote in message
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I have been camping for the past few days at a State park in P.A. Got
there Friday and left yesterday. I dragged the RLM with me and had a nice
little launch site below the camp site. Got to fish every day and caught
everything from a small musky to a huge crappie and a bunch of bass and a
big old frog. No size to the bass and not knowing the lake I figured most
of the bigger bass were in deeper water. I did however find a nice cove
loaded with weeds and lilly pads...and about 4 million dragonflies. Big
fish were busting these flies all around me. I could however not connect
with a single fish there. I tried poppers, buzzbaits, speedworms, drop
shots, craws, senkos, spinnerbaits, horny toads and well you get the
picture. I'm sure if I had a "Hover Lure" I would have killed them.

Question" Lack of catching any quality fish in this area due to too many
dragonflies? This seemed like it was all they would go after. I did catch
some bigger fish in the 2+ range but all held to stumps or some sort of
cover out of the heat and away from that area, tons of 12-13 inch fish
were easily located on the shoreline pads and stumps. I'd love to go back
there soon and was wondering what you would try to catch some of these
fish?


Try a Dragon Fly plastic on small diameter briad on a long spinning rod.
--
Bob La Londe
http://www.YumaBassMan.com

"Bill McKee" wrote in message
nk.net...
https://www.hover-lure.com/

"Bob La Londe" wrote in message
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"alwaysfishking" wrote in message
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I have been camping for the past few days at a State park in P.A. Got
there Friday and left yesterday. I dragged the RLM with me and had a
nice
little launch site below the camp site. Got to fish every day and
caught
everything from a small musky to a huge crappie and a bunch of bass and
a
big old frog. No size to the bass and not knowing the lake I figured
most
of the bigger bass were in deeper water. I did however find a nice cove
loaded with weeds and lilly pads...and about 4 million dragonflies. Big
fish were busting these flies all around me. I could however not
connect
with a single fish there. I tried poppers, buzzbaits, speedworms, drop
shots, craws, senkos, spinnerbaits, horny toads and well you get the
picture. I'm sure if I had a "Hover Lure" I would have killed them.

Question" Lack of catching any quality fish in this area due to too
many
dragonflies? This seemed like it was all they would go after. I did
catch
some bigger fish in the 2+ range but all held to stumps or some sort of
cover out of the heat and away from that area, tons of 12-13 inch fish
were easily located on the shoreline pads and stumps. I'd love to go
back
there soon and was wondering what you would try to catch some of these
fish?


Try a Dragon Fly plastic on small diameter briad on a long spinning rod.
--
Bob La Londe
http://www.YumaBassMan.com




I just remembered a tidbit I heard about a dragon fly bite. The fellow went
out late morning. If I recall he was nailing them on a jitterbug right in
the middle of a heavy dragon fly bite. Might have been another topwater,
but I think it was a jitterbug.

Bob La Londe
www.YumaBassMan.com

I think I'm heading to Wal-Mart for some straight hooks styrofoam and treble
hooks, That combined with some of Daves hair and some paint should make a
nice Dave-V-Fly. Should be done by tomorrow, I'll post a picture

Firstly I'm in Pa. & am curious as to what lake you were on. Don't
worry, I'm 71 & do most of my fishing from my Electric Scooter
(arthritis) What I'd do since the bass were gorged & tired of dragonfly
I'd have tried a slow worked weighted chartreuse or Watermelon lizard
flipped in the shallows & among stick ups. You'd need to coax them into
hitting it if they were full, but the right presentation can get it
done. A jig & pig worked slowly should also work quite well Good Luck,
Carl

Promised Land State Park, jig and pigs are useless there and I tried
slow..everything.


"E. Carl Speros" wrote in message
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Firstly I'm in Pa. & am curious as to what lake you were on. Don't
worry, I'm 71 & do most of my fishing from my Electric Scooter
(arthritis) What I'd do since the bass were gorged & tired of dragonfly
I'd have tried a slow worked weighted chartreuse or Watermelon lizard
flipped in the shallows & among stick ups. You'd need to coax them into
hitting it if they were full, but the right presentation can get it
done. A jig & pig worked slowly should also work quite well Good Luck,
Carl

alwaysfishking wrote:
Promised Land State Park, jig and pigs are useless there and I tried
slow..everything.


Not everything

I run into "full bass" often, usably gorged with shad or cray fish, they
are so full, when I am un hooking them they are spitting up these, and
their bellies still fill full.

Normally I use a very small lure, just a tid bit, and wiggle it in one
spot,, they will eat it, if you make it a treat they just can't pass up

--
Rodney Long,
Inventor of the Long Shot "WIGGLE" rig, SpecTastic Thread
Boomerang Fishing Pro. ,Stand Out Hooks ,Stand Out Lures,
Mojo's Rock Hopper & Rig Saver weights, Decoy Activator
and the EZKnot http://www.ezknot.com