West Central Bass League - Long Lake

Thursday July 22nd was the 2nd stop on Long Lake for the league and as expected for this time of year on Long the fishing was extremely tough. Out of the 13 teams only 2 were able to bring in a 3 fish limit and 7 of the teams zeroed. The 2 teams who did catch limits reported only catching 3 fish apiece so it wasn't like they were whacking them either but the fish they did catch ended up being very nice. Even though very few fish were caught the average weight ended up being an astounding 4.10 lbs!

1st - Ron & Joe 12.73 lbs

2nd - Tim & Grant 12.60 lbs

3rd - Jim & Dwight 8.34 lbs

4th - Andy & Mike 7.54 lbs

Big Bass - Ross & Daryl 5.16 lbs

Just like everyone else we had an extremely tough night although we were able to get 3 bites and put 2 of them in the boat to squeak into the money in 4th place. One of our fish came early in the evening on a black/blue punch skirt rig flipped in the reeds. Our 2nd fish didn't come until about 10 minutes before check in. That one came on a black/blue tube from under an overhanging tree.

Sorry for the delay and shortness of these last two blogs. I have been in Michigan for the past several days doing some pre-practice for the upcoming BASS Federation Northern Divisionals on Bays de Noc so I haven't had the time I usually do for these things. Things will be back to normal at this point for a couple weeks at least.