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Got out with Ronnie Bass Stalker on Kensico today. We fished the Rye Lake side all the way to the Rt. 22 Bridge. The bass were not cooperating. In fact, they were not present at all. Ronnie cranked up one sickly lookign largemouth that looked like it survived a harrowing experience with a huge pickerel. Speaking of pickerel...a mammoth one came out of nowhere to snatch Ronnie's senko, and promptly sawed his braided line in half. All I saw was a red flash as it took off.
A while later Ronnie's lipless crank got nailed by an overly agressive yellow perch. All the while we are seeing the sonar go crazy in 60+ feet of water with baitfish balls and large fish below them in 40-60 feet. Nothing doing trying to catch them. We threw everything at everything and got nothing else until a fish surfaced right near us. Ronnie was qucik to grab a rod with a Hopkins spoon on it and threw right at the blowup. As the sponn fluttered he got a hit and soon reeled in a healthy Lake Trout! For those who don't knowm Lakers are rare in these parts, as they require deep, cold and clear lakes. They are rarely found south of...well, Canada really. We are lucky to be able to support a population in Kensico. I have hooked into them, but never landed one. Ronnie had never caught one either, until tonight.
This Lake Trout saved our miserable day!
So the Laker saved our otherwise miserable day. We were really disappointed by Kensico today, and the last few fall outings. Fish were nowhere to be found, and while the trout seemed to be enjoying chasing alewife schools all over the reservoir, we were not equipped for it.
Laugh of the day came when I jokingly hypothesized that the bass had not moved up shallow yet and Ronnie replied, sure they have...from 90 to 89 feet.
Mark
A while later Ronnie's lipless crank got nailed by an overly agressive yellow perch. All the while we are seeing the sonar go crazy in 60+ feet of water with baitfish balls and large fish below them in 40-60 feet. Nothing doing trying to catch them. We threw everything at everything and got nothing else until a fish surfaced right near us. Ronnie was qucik to grab a rod with a Hopkins spoon on it and threw right at the blowup. As the sponn fluttered he got a hit and soon reeled in a healthy Lake Trout! For those who don't knowm Lakers are rare in these parts, as they require deep, cold and clear lakes. They are rarely found south of...well, Canada really. We are lucky to be able to support a population in Kensico. I have hooked into them, but never landed one. Ronnie had never caught one either, until tonight.

This Lake Trout saved our miserable day!
So the Laker saved our otherwise miserable day. We were really disappointed by Kensico today, and the last few fall outings. Fish were nowhere to be found, and while the trout seemed to be enjoying chasing alewife schools all over the reservoir, we were not equipped for it.
Laugh of the day came when I jokingly hypothesized that the bass had not moved up shallow yet and Ronnie replied, sure they have...from 90 to 89 feet.
Mark