[May 10 and 11, 2012
Watched the weather early last week and noticed that
conditions at Ivie were looking very good toward the end of the week. So my
brother in law , Barry and I decide to head out Wednesday nite to Elm Creek
village At O. H. Ivie lake for 2 days of kayak bass fishing.
May 10
Got up early thursday and had a great breakfast at Elm Creek
Village (I can't say enough about the lodging at ELM Creek Village. Friendly
and informative, good food and comfortable rooms). The morning was a bit over
cast. We started catching bass right away up near the bank on soft plastics,
crank baits, top water poppers and lipless cranks.
We got driven off the lake 2 times by strong storm cells in
the afternoon. It rained hard at Ivie and lots of rain passed to the west of
the lake. We only packed up when the radar showed red cells moving our way. We
got back out in the evening and I managed a 7 lb bass on soft plastic.
Best Bass of Day 1
May 11
Skipped breakfast and got a quick launch. The morning was
foggy and chilly. We concentrated on the top water bite. Not long Barry hooks
into a huge bass that pulls his kayak in circles. I paddle over just in time to
see him land a huge 27.+" monster. The fish weighed 11.5 lb on a spring scale. This was Barry's personal best. We thought about making a run back to elm
creek to get a official weight. Barry was worried about stressing the fish to
much. Being in a kayak means u have make hard choices and we decided it did not
matter that we got a more accurate weight and he released the fish and we
continued fishing.
Best Bass Day 2
In the next slough over Barry keys up the walkie that he has
another on, and it is pulling him around. It was good ways away and immediately
paddled over to see him land another huge bass. This one measured 25 +"
long and 10 lbs on the spring scale.
We move up a north arm and finally I get into a decent 8 lb
fish.
Over the 2 days we caught over 40 fish with 4 fish from 7 to
11.5. We weathered rain and storms. My truck smells mildewie, we are sore and
tired, but we had the best time. It just can't get much better than the 2 days
we had. What a contrast from 2 weeks ago when we lost all the big bites.
Changing to Seagur line and having drag set correctly went a long way to
landing the big ones.
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