Sean Rae, an old Army buddy of mine from Texas, came up to visit family on Saturday and called me Sunday afternoon to go fishin'.
"What ya wanna go for?" I asked.
"Bass for the fun of it; crappie and perch for dinner."
"I know just the place," I replied.
It was hot and sticky and I thought about all we'd catch was some rays.
We launched at Wright's Landing on downtown Oswego's north shore.
Motoring out just far enough to get out of the launch area, we started drifting. He cast a spinnerbait and I ripped a buzzbait.
On his third toss he caught a largemouth of about two pounds. The next cast he took another, and another after that. By the time I switched over to a spinnerbait he had landed and released four largemouths and a 2 ½ pound smallmouth; one after the other; all of 'em over the submerged weeds between the yacht club and boat slips.
I couldn't buy a bass, but I got a 27-inch northern ½-hour later on the spinnerbait just below Breitbeck Park.
We continued working the south shore up to the smokestacks but the fish had lockjaw. We returned to the marina to try our luck at catching dinner.
I worked a 2” Mister Twister Exude Curly Tail on a jighead rigged to a spinner form; and Sean used a Berkley Gulp 2.5" Power Trout Worm weightless, hooked whacky style.
In about an hour we caught a couple keeper crappies, ½-dozen perch ranging from 7 to 10 inches and some sunfish and rock bass the size of small frying pans.
"You didn't tell me the fishin was this good up here in July," Sean protested.
"Yeah I did," I retorted, "but nah, you wouldn't believe me. Now ya know."
"What ya wanna go for?" I asked.
"Bass for the fun of it; crappie and perch for dinner."
"I know just the place," I replied.
It was hot and sticky and I thought about all we'd catch was some rays.
We launched at Wright's Landing on downtown Oswego's north shore.
Motoring out just far enough to get out of the launch area, we started drifting. He cast a spinnerbait and I ripped a buzzbait.
On his third toss he caught a largemouth of about two pounds. The next cast he took another, and another after that. By the time I switched over to a spinnerbait he had landed and released four largemouths and a 2 ½ pound smallmouth; one after the other; all of 'em over the submerged weeds between the yacht club and boat slips.
I couldn't buy a bass, but I got a 27-inch northern ½-hour later on the spinnerbait just below Breitbeck Park.
We continued working the south shore up to the smokestacks but the fish had lockjaw. We returned to the marina to try our luck at catching dinner.
I worked a 2” Mister Twister Exude Curly Tail on a jighead rigged to a spinner form; and Sean used a Berkley Gulp 2.5" Power Trout Worm weightless, hooked whacky style.
In about an hour we caught a couple keeper crappies, ½-dozen perch ranging from 7 to 10 inches and some sunfish and rock bass the size of small frying pans.
"You didn't tell me the fishin was this good up here in July," Sean protested.
"Yeah I did," I retorted, "but nah, you wouldn't believe me. Now ya know."
Larry Murowski, owner of the Oswego Salmon Shop
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