Fishing Report
Lake Ovid is ON FIRE!
Lake Ovid, Bath MI, 5/27/01 – Fished Lake Ovid to get some more reservoir practice under my belt from ~9am until 3:15pm. The day after opening day of bass season was chilly and rainy, but only slightly breezy. The bass didn’t mind though. I started on a mid-lake weed hump with a 3/8oz chartreuse War Eagle buzzbait. Caught 3 quality keepers and 2 little ones in the first two passes throwing over weeds not quite matted to the surface. Had 2 or 3 other half-hearted bumps.
The buzzbait bite slowed with no strikes on a nearby hump. I switched to my favorite ditch checking the deeper mouth for post spawners. I caught 3 little ones and one over 3 lbs on a blue/chartreuse 7A Bomber casting from ~12 feet up onto the ditch edge just ticking the weed edge. One little one smacked a blue/chartruese Bomber Shallow A also. I followed the ditch deep into the bay flipping a 13″ bass on a black/blue Bacon Rind. The inside weed edge didn’t produce though I saw lots of empty beds.
I moved to the weed edges near the beach, but things slowed with only a few small bass on the Bomber Shallow A. I did notice several followers that looked decent though along with lots of schools of nervous small fish out from the weed edges. I switched to a small silver jerk bait using the standard 2 jerks with a pause. What a difference. Casting out from the humps and bars in the North end, I started ripping largemouths over 2 pounds…all fat, hard-fighting bass. I put nine keepers and several smaller bass in the boat in about an hour fishing out over 9 to 13 feet off the edges. Most grabbed the minnow bait while it paused. All in all, an enjoyable day of fishing. Interesting that many of us used a similar tactic of chasing post spawn bass off structure just a few weeks ago on the reservoir – Lake Hamilton in Hot Springs Arkansas.
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