I posted in the previous blog post that we had hit into some great largemouth bass fishing. The fishing has settled down a bit to what would be considered “normally” good fishing, but for a few days, the largemouth bass fishing was on fire with plenty of big fish and lots of kayak fishing action. The wind was mostly calm and the weather was decent, so we were fishing just before sunrise.
The kayak fishing conditions in the early morning on the Colorado River were perfect; dead calm and largemouth bass ready for action at the crack of dawn.
It was classic bass fishing; prowling the nooks and crannies of the Colorado River looking for the fish. The river water temperature has risen to the high 50’s, that probably has a lot to do with it. For a few weeks of cold river water the largemouth bass fishing was really slow. When the water warmed up a few degrees, the big largemouth bass were ready to eat.
For a few days, when you found the bass, it was big time bass fishing. Most of the fish were two pounds or bigger, there were a couple fish over five pounds for sure and I think the biggest bass had to be about ten pounds. That fish was huge! It hit my 4″ grub just before daybreak and I could tell it was a big fish. I’d lost a monster bass the day before, I didn’t want to make it two in a row. This big bass ran along the bottom to the middle of the river and made a jump.
It looked like the fish was so big it was having trouble getting into the air! After a long battle on my 12 lb. spinning rig, I got the fish closer to the kayak. When the bass got a look at the Hobie, it took to the air again.
Two big jumps and the fish was still hooked. I eased the bass towards the kayak, grabbed it by the lower lip and pulled it in the kayak. This bass was huge with a big mouth. If it’s not the biggest bass I ever caught, it’s right up there.
Caught a lot of nice fish and a lot of nice fish got away, the bottom line is that there was a lot of bass fishing action.
When the fishing is this good and the conditions are perfect, it’s easy to get out there and paddle to the fishing spot in the dark so you can have your line in the water before the sun comes up. Many of the bigger bass were caught around sunrise, great time of the day to hookup a big largemouth bass.
The largemouth bass fishing was red hot for about three days. Big fish and lots of fishing action.
By afternoon, my arms felt like noodles from paddling, casting and reeling and my back, still not recovered from the 40 ton semi impact, was killing me. It’s hard to stop fishing when you say “one more cast” and you catch a fish like this.
At the end of the three day bass fishing frenzy, I was ready for a break so no complaints when the wind picked up for a couple days. It was a great few days of bass fishing. My lures were chewed up and so was my thumb.
We are waiting out windy conditions following an unusual storm system here in the US desert southwest, we’ll be back on the river in a day or two for more kayak fishing for largemouth bass.