Barrett Lake June 11th report
Posted: Thu Jun 12, 2025 1:45 pm
Been remiss in reports. Apologies. Headed out on Wednesday in the dark with the usual suspects and a few new friends.
Light wind and about 65F, the water, a pleasant 73F at the surface. Chuck and I headed across the lake and worked some of the main lake shoreline. He had some success on jigs and I had some on plastics early, but as soon as there was some light, we went topwater and had a great time. I was using a walking bait and he was using a whopper plopper. Apparently more than one person used the whopper plopper because that lure was working yesterday.
We both headed back into Hauser and went to separate corners, where I started fishing with the 4# ultralight and a #5 Rapala and catching all sorts of bass from .75 to 2 pounds. Then I went to the sticks and reused topwater. It worked all morning. Most hits came on the pause or the landing, except for a very fun blowup Chuck had as he was taking the lure out of the water. The fish missed, but it was a lot of fun.
Wind did come up and by 1000 it was quite miserable, so I was done. I seem to like a light breeze at most. Temp might have been 80F and the water got up to 76 at the surface. Have fun out there.
Light wind and about 65F, the water, a pleasant 73F at the surface. Chuck and I headed across the lake and worked some of the main lake shoreline. He had some success on jigs and I had some on plastics early, but as soon as there was some light, we went topwater and had a great time. I was using a walking bait and he was using a whopper plopper. Apparently more than one person used the whopper plopper because that lure was working yesterday.
We both headed back into Hauser and went to separate corners, where I started fishing with the 4# ultralight and a #5 Rapala and catching all sorts of bass from .75 to 2 pounds. Then I went to the sticks and reused topwater. It worked all morning. Most hits came on the pause or the landing, except for a very fun blowup Chuck had as he was taking the lure out of the water. The fish missed, but it was a lot of fun.
Wind did come up and by 1000 it was quite miserable, so I was done. I seem to like a light breeze at most. Temp might have been 80F and the water got up to 76 at the surface. Have fun out there.
- Love fishing in the dark
- This is fuuuun on a light rod.
- Big girl for the day, wish she was eating better, she could be bigger.
- Many decent fish yesterday.
