An awesome day on Mud Lake...

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My buddy and I hit up a little-known, tiny little lake on Saturday near our home town, and what a great day!

Despite the heat, and despite the fact that we didn't get in there for the early morning bite, the bass in this lake were about as active as I have seen anywhere all year.

All of the fish we caught were in 3 ft or less of water, and every last one was caught on the Spro frogs, or a whacky-rigged Yum Dinger skipped under the docks and pontoons (with the exception of one of the fish my buddy caught flipping a big brush hog into a TINY patch of pads that I would have never guessed would hold a fish...)

It was pretty wild: we could drag those frogs through a patch of pads and pretty much count on getting at least 2 or 3 fish if not more out of each one, and the same could be said for the docks, and the greatest thing was that it seemed like the 3 to 3.5 pounders were a pretty average size for this lake. We had multiple double headers coming out of docks that were no more than 4' wide, and they were all really nice fish. The first pic we took of a fish was one of my first fish which I thought was a pretty nice fish, and probably the best I would get all day, and it turned out that this fish would end up being one of the smallest of the day. Just a fantastic day! I caught probably my 3 or 4 best fish of the year in one morning and afternoon. Not bad!

The only bummer is the big guy you will see pictured below managed to make one last run when I got him up alongside the boat, and managed to pull the tip of my new Vendetta rod into the side of the prop at the back of the boat and broke the tip off :cry: It still works, but it's not a 7' rod anymore...

Anyway, here are some pics:

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Man that looks like an awesome awesome day.. If I was you I would probally be still smiling about it today! Rods you can replace or fix but an awesome day like that this deep into summer is priceless! Wish we had more froggable vegetation in the lakes around me! Cant get a frog bite to save my life!
 
Looks like there have been some traffic on the lake,mostly pleasure boaters?
Frog bite all day,what a blast,wtg.
 
Zum said:
Looks like there have been some traffic on the lake,mostly pleasure boaters?
Frog bite all day,what a blast,wtg.

Yeah I am not too sure... There wasn't a ton of traffic, and most of the people out there were tin-boaters fishing crappies and walleyes (they looked at us pretty funny with our 21' bass boat...) There WAS a pair of jetskis out there pretty much all day ripping around though.

My theory is that because this lake is pretty shallow throughout with pretty much no dropoffs, weedlines, or structure, the fish HAVE to hold tight to docks and pads because it's virtually the only cover to be found on the whole lake.

It also helps that it doesn't see a ton of fishing pressure: on a map, this lake looks like a small puddle compared to a lot of the lakes in the area and I think it gets overlooked by most people, and those that don't overlook it are in no hurry to tell the world about it. You can pretty much bet I won't be telling many people where it is...
 

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