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June 16th - Opening day of Bass Season - Heuvelton NY
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If you ever get a chance and enjoy fishing a small body of water, above the dam in Heuvelton is a great place to go. We made plans the night before to meet at a central location and go over to Heuvelton to try some Bass fishing. Others were also thinking the same thing as there were three other boats already in the water fishing.
It was decided that Merrill Finny would ride and fish from my boat. We headed upstream toward the dam in order for Merrill to try the weed beds with surface and spinner baits in hopes of getting a bass to strike. I opted to set-up a bottom bounce with a worm harness to fish for walleye that inhabit these waters. I ended up catching two walleyes as well as numerous sunfish.
Merrill had a few strikes and had one bass almost to the boat before it came off the hook. There were a lot of swirls in the shallows but I think they were carp in there feeding. Brent & Jordan had about the same luck from the other boat. They had some hits using the white floating mouse using slight jerks to entice the fish.
We called it a day at 11 am as I had other commitments to attend to. The three of them were going to take a shot at Pains Lake in Oxbow later in the afternoon and I have yet to hear how they turned out. I have fished this body of water before and had great luck with a rubber warm, usually purple with a white tail. Just toss it out and allow it to sink completely. Using your wrist, lift the pole gently about 3 feet and then allow it to drop reeling in the slack. The bass tend to hit it on the way down and you will feel resistance as you lift it again.