Sunday May 9 at LSC.

We headed back with Tyler to LSC and the weather looked amazing....sunny skies and a slight wind. We left the marina and realized the wind was from the NE....The water ended up being choppy and muddy. But we headed to some of the way points created the previous day, and Hunter immediately caught a decent smallie then caught a monster.....21.5 inches and nearly 8 pounds!! That fish earned Hunter $20 and 20 points and is now the leader in the fish god challenge. I sent a picture to you all...it was amazing!!

What happened next was initially unbelievable, then scary, then hilarious. Tyler then hooked into a four pounder that would not quit fighting at the boat...Hunter was ready to net it and the tube flew out of the smallie's mouth with incredible force toward Hunter's face. I knew it hit me but thought it was in his sweatshirt until he turned around. The tube hit him directly in the chin burying the barb to the shank. I cut the line and realized there was no getting it out without a doctor. We headed for the ramp and found a Clinic open with a minute drive of the ramp. They removed it in 45 minutes.

Now, the scary is how close it was to knocking out his eye and looking like a pirate the rest of his life. The funny was when we were walking into the clinic he wanted me to take a picture? That's when the fun began....until then I hadn't thought it was a topic I could not joke about. Then it was on. The unbelievable is that we were launching the boat to fish within 15 minutes of them removing the tube from Hunter's face.

Hunter killed us both as we caught nearly 30 smallmouth and a couple largemouth during the midday...all fish were over 2 pounds with a few 4-5 pounders. I also had a musky follower and Hunter had a musky on for 5 seconds as it bit his tube and cut the line immediately. The next 3 weeks will be amazing as the fish move into spawn, then pile up and eat everything post spawn.

There is still $165 left for the FISH GOD CHALLENGE and 165 points......it's anyone's game.

Brian

lake st clair May 8

Hunter and I fished LSC on Saturday early and the water had cleared to 54 degrees with virtually no wind and a slight chop......I caught the first four on a mid diving perch crank and thought I was going to outfish Hunter easily. He stuck with a tube and fished slow off the back of the boat and started to kill them. We caught 20 or so with Hunter catching the most. All fish were above 2 1/2 pounds and the biggest at 6 pounds or so. No muskie but lots of boats in 6-8 fow. The males were in tight with the females staging to come in. Hunters biggest was full of eggs.

Hunter won a $25 Bass Pro card from me for outfishing me. We are headed back in the morning as the weather looks even better.

EASTER SUNDAY

After going to Donna's for Easter, we saw some clear weather in the afternoon and headed to BawBees. Hunter was the big winner with (2) 16 inch bass on a wacky worm. Alex and I fished for pike and we each had a follower but could not get a bite.

The water was 61 degrees at the ramp and 57 most everywhere else so the fishing is just getting started. The bass opener on Lake St Clair is Saturday so this weekend we may see a musky, pike, or a 20 inch smallie.

The next few days look horrible weather wise, so baseball could be washed out the first few days. Hopefully a couple dry hours to stay on schedule. The baseball stats came out and Ryan leads the league and area with an almost .600 batting average and 4 homers. Nice job.

Hunter was in for batting at just under .400 and Justin was in for low A low ERA as a pitcher. Albert is just outside the leaders but will be there by the end.

Think smallmouth and the weekend will be here in no time.

delta reservoir

The trout are still biting as Hunter, Alex, and Austin were fishing Thursday afternoon before their game. They caught quite a few trout before a monster pike grabbed one of Hunter's trout before he could get it in. He had fought it for 15-20 minutes and had it to shore twice but without a net could not land it. The pike was BIG....38 inches and 15 pounds (estimated) and Alex was in the water trying to grab the gills as you just can't pull it to shore because of the rocks that surround the water. Everytime he touched the pike it would take off to open water. It finally got off.

Landing that fish would have earned Hunter a ton of points and cash for the Fish god challenge. Lucky us!!

Tomorrow's weather looks good and the boat will be in the Res after a huge pike. Stay tuned!!

tyler gets his revenge

The last few days we've fished the Delta res for trout and have caught quite a few. The fish seem like they school up and work their way through the shallows and will eat minnows or worms. Well, we invited Tyler and of course Mo had to go to continue her fishing dominance over him. The final counts was Tyler-5 Brian-3 Hunter-1 and Mo-0.

She blamed her lack of fish on the rod, reel, bad bait. etc. Really, Tyler just crushed her and now has a lead in fish over her 5-3. We'll see if it lasts.

We will definitely fish this weekend and maybe make a little tournament at the res- winner take all.

Brian

weekend fishing

The worst weather yet since the start of spring....cold with high winds and rain made it impossible to fish. Hopefully we'll start to see some warm days by the end of the week. If so, maybe we'll have our first Delta Fish God fishing tournament this weekend.

For baseball...2 league games against Evergreen and Montpelier and a non league game against Bowsher should equal 3 wins. It gets tougher next week when we go to Archbold Monday.

Brian

TOOK THURSDAY OFF

John and I took Thursday off and fished BawBees. The sun never came out....it drizzled on and off....and the wind gusted to 30mph. I used a 1 oz. chatter bait, spinner bait, jerk bait, and strike king sexy shad. We didn't catch any, but had a couple of followers....one looked 32 inch plus while the other was smaller.

The water temperature was 49-52 degrees. Once the water gets to 56 degrees it will be on. This weekend doesn't look very good with rain and wind.

On to baseball......We didn't have a good week, but Ryan hit his 4th home run and Justin celebrated his 16th birthday with his first varsity win. Hunter and Albert had some hits and scored some runs, but we finished the week going 2-2 but 0-2 in the league.

Get ready for that first fishing tournament of the year...possibly next week. It will be a blind draw with only 14 inch minimums.  Good luck!