Soft Swimmer Meets Pike

Having just gotten word from another boat that they had caught largemouths, smallmouths and pike close to the bank on Sebile Soft Swimmers, we headed for the shallow water, re-rigging as we went. Three casts later we were in on the Conneaut Lake action, with a big northern pike on the line.

The Soft Swimmers turned out to be the hot bait for almost everyone in our group today. The big exception was Gary Dollahon, who picked a Gene Larew Biffle Bug as the best largemouth bait before we ever got in the boats this morning. Sticking with his plan, Dollahon and his Texas-rigged "bug" outfished everyone prior to lunch and produced the best largemouth of the day.


Tomorrow we're going deeper for big white bass and hope to get in on some jigging action before the hard rain (and snow?) arrives.