Today a buddy and I headed out to Hatzic Lake for our first time ever to see what we could find for bass. Seems like we fished the whole lake, with nary a bass to be caught. We saw a few followers coming after our lures but no takers of the bass variety. Before arriving, we thought we were pretty clever by printing off a map from the internet that showed depths and the locale of a public boat launch. While we followed the map very well, turns out there is no public boat launch. At least not according to where the map indicated, and according to some of the locals that we asked. So we kinda had to find our own way onto the lake, which we managed to do...
Although no bass were caught, I did catch a huge black crappie on a baby bass pattern crank bait. It was the biggest crappie I have ever seen, about 1.5 to 2 pounds, an absolute slab. Of course forgetting the net was a bit of an issue... I had 'em right to the boat, and my buddy and I were quite surprised when we saw that it was a crappie that I had caught. It was so big we just assumed that it was a bass. I lifted him out of the water so my buddy could grab him and bonk 'em, but as I did, the hook popped out. Of course. The biggest crappie I have ever caught, gone... Talk about motivation to remember the net.
We had a fair number of hits but our only other landed fish was a large pike minnow that my buddy caught on a black and silver crankbait.
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Of course the day ended off perfectly with me falling into the lake as I disembarked at our "public boat launch". Nothing too bad, just a couple of soaked legs. While I was unloading stuff from the boat, my buddy thought it would be a good idea to unload as well, only he failed to secure the boat before he left it. Of course a passing boat threw up a nice wake, and pulled the boat off the shore as the boat was left unattended. When we get back from the 30 sec. round trip to the truck, of course the boat is floating in the lake about 15 feet offshore. Of course. Seeing as I already had wet pants and legs I volunteered to go out and retrieve the boat. I stripped down to my boxers which were white. Of course. So into the lake I went, with my boxer and boots. My buddy owes me big time.
Well an eventful day always makes for a memorable one right? Plus we were out fishing, so how could we complain...
We had most of our hits on crankbaits, although we did try various curly tail grubs, bass tubes, spinnerbaits, an whatever else we could find, even some topwater lures. We also saw a crapload of carp. They seemed to be attracted to the sound of the trolling motor, at one time we had six carp all coming up to investigate. As soon as they got within 8ft of the boat they seemed to "notice" it and would take off. The carp all seemed to congregate at the north west end of the lake at the edge of a big weed bed there if anyone cares about carp. During our time in the area we saw about 20 carp.
Thats about all I can think of, but I think that it was enough of a gong show as it was...
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Topic: Hatzic Lake June 30 (Read 2862 times)