A couple of weeks ago I went fishing and posted a report called “Dink Day!!”. Well, this report is full of everything but dinks.
I took my boat to a lake I have never fished before called NaJu Lake in GwangJu. The water levels we down so much that all known boat ramps were high and dry, but luckily I ran into some locals that showed me a secret ramp (if that’s what you can call it)…but that’s another story.
I haven’t counted all my photos yet, but I’m guessing I caught around 30 bass and only 2 of them were under 40cm / 16 inches. I also caught 4 or 5 big bluegills on several bass lures.
The early morning bite was topwater stick baits. Then after 9:00am the topwater bite stopped and spinnerbaits and cranks baits were the order of the day.
Bluegills first…
Now for the bass photos.
And I saved the biggest for last… 51cm and 4lb 6oz. The spot where I caught this one was a shallow flat area of around 5~7 foot where I also caught several other big females with red tails. I guess these were very late spawners and the water temps were around 77f and 78f.
No sun rise pics, but he is a sun setting pic I got on my way home…
I went fishing last Thursday, but haven’t got around to posting a report until now. Building fish tanks really takes up a lot of time!!
I got on the water early, around 3:30am but the fish weren’t really feeding until it started to become light. Most of the fish were caught on a hard jerk bait.
I also caught a couple on wacky rigged senkos and neko rigs.
Then I moved to another lake. The water in this second lake is getting so low that I fear the worst. I hope there will be some good rain fall this summer. But the bass were still biting and were looking in rather good shape despite the water level. The biggest bass at this lake was caught on a senko, but I caught several bass on my home made 1/4oz spinnerbaits 
There was also a few crap, I mean carp fishermen there with 10 rods each, but they left just after I arrived. Here’s what they left laying around the bank when they left…there was about 10 dead bass and a couple of dead bluegill.
Then, I moved to another small lake. This lake has some beautiful scenery, here’s some nice scenic shots…
The wind was blowing hard at this lake, but I still caught a few bass, most of them fell for my neko rig cast into the wind.
I got out yesterday for the first time since being back home from Angola. I have been busy building a new fish tank for my pet Bass (but that’s another story for another time).
I was at the lake at 5:30am, I was wanting to be there before first light, but I slept in 
The morning was the best part of the day with several dinks falling for the neko rig and a wacky rigged 5” watermelon/red Alluring senko.
The lake has a nice covering of weeds coming and I could see and hear tons of frogs, so I threw a frog for a while. I had several blow ups (which was very exciting) but only managed to land one of them.
Then I went to another lake just to check it out. I caught a few more dinks here also, and lost one decent bass on a homemade spinnerbait. Here’s a dink that took a liking to my spinnerbait
Overall I had a great day, hot, but great. The water levels in all waters are much higher than they were last month, but they are going back down again with the rice farmers
Oh, and here’s a photo of my new fish tank in progress…
I have just got these photos from my bass club website of the boat ramp area at Andong…it’s a sad sight. I hope the water levels start to rise soon!
Since I’m going back to Angola next week [add big sobbing smiley here] I wanted to get my boat on the water for the first time this year and have a good day’s fishing…and that is exactly what I had!!
I drove up to JangSung Lake (on Expressway 25) on Wednesday night to get an early start on Thursday morning. This is the decent sized lake I fished at last year where they had built a huge new boat ramp. Well, when I got there that ramp was all locked [add super angry smiley here]. This seems to be the trend here in Korea these days. I drove around in the dark and eventually found another ramp which was also locked, but had some other bass boats there so I was a little hopeful. The next morning a guy came and opened the gate and my fishing day started.
With the new moon approaching, the bass were in full spawn and once I found the depth they were spawning at I started catching bass after bass. 80% of the bass I caught were all females and full of eggs and almost all of them were over 3lbs.
I won’t bore you with too much writing but will let the pictures speak for themselves.
Here’s the biggest fish of the day, 50.5cm and 4lb 6oz
Here’s one I caught on a spinnerbait I made myself just last week, that is a great feeling
Here’s some more fishy photos,
It was Wednesday and the weather forecast was good, so I went fishing (I probably would of gone if the forecast had been bad)….lol
I started at one small lake at 6:00am and fished for about 45 minutes without any sign of a fish, and then all of a sudden the bass started to feed. I could see the bass chasing small bait fish all over this lake. It was great to watch these little baitfish jumping out of the water trying to escape from the bass with the bass in hot pursuit. I tied on several topwater lures to try and immitate the fleeing baitfish, but they would bite anything I tried. Then I remembered about a rig that I hadn’t tried before a “Donkey Rig” or “double fluke rig” as it is also known. Here’s a quick drawing of the rig.
I was fishing this rig right under the surface and the bass would slam this rig. I caught 37 bass on the day with about 30 of them coming on this rig. Unfortunately, I never hooked 2 bass at the same time….that would of been fun
OK, here some fishy pics…
And of course there was the dinks, this one could of fit inside the palm of my hand
I am a member of a bass club based in Ulsan (and I’m the only foreign member) and every month we have a get to together come tournament where the 3 biggest bass on the day wins a prize, nothing huge, but it’s fun.
Well, every spring we always fish at JangCheok Lake (Tex Mex knows the one!!) and we fished there yesterday. I fished out of my inflatable boat this year as the water levels are way too low to launch my portabote
It was like summer out there, it was sunny and reached around the 80 degree mark with water tempatures at 65 degrees early morning and and 73 degrees in the heat of the day.
I took a photo of every fish I caught so that I could count them and I managed to catch 29 total. Most of them were 14 inches to 16 inches which needless to say was not big enough to win or even be in the top 3. The biggest caught was 18 inches by a guy fishing from the bank!! As you’ll see from the photos, about 95% of the fish were caught on a Neko rig, but I did get a couple on a wacky senko and a hard jerk bait.
The fish were in post spawn phase, the water was crystal clear and I could see the old beds in about 4 feet of water. It was cool, this was the first bass beds I have ever seen, unfortunately all the big girls had already spawned out and gone…there’s always next year!!
Here’s some photos.
I was tuna fishing again last night. Not as many in numbers as a few nights ago, but the size and quality were much better…..and the best news of all, NO ribbon fish!!
Here’s all that’s left of my rod…..
Started out using this 5″ topwater and caught one smaller one.
Here’s some of the fish I got last night, all caught on a heavy 38g lipless crankbait.
And here’s a shot of one of the ribbon fish we caught a few nights ago…
I know you always hear me complaining about working offshore for weeks and not been able to fish, well, I think I’ve just changed my mind.
First off, here’s a sunrise photo for Nomad
Then a few nights ago, the weather and sea became calm enough to let me throw out a few lures that I brought with me. I also brought a travel rod and reel…..more on that later. Here’s some fish pics.
The rod only lasted for a few fish before it decided it wasn’t strong enough. My Korean inspector hooked into a fish using my rod when it snapped into a few pieces.
All I have left is a 4 foot section with 2 line guides, so it still works in a fashion.
Just wondering if anyone is planning on heading to the Fishing Show in Seoul over this weekend March 6 ~ 8
I was planning on going, but work got to me first
Yesterday was definitely my last chance for some fishing before I head to Angola at the end of this week
I got to the lake at lunchtime and the wind was blowing hard, it was cloudy and kinda cold. I managed to catch 10 bass in what I thought was no-so-good fishing conditions. The best technique was to cast spinnerbaits into the wind and drag them along the bottom at a fairly slow speed. Most of the bass were tight to the bank where the wind was blowing onto.
Here’s some pics of the biggest one!!
And another couple decent ones……
It was Saturday afternoon, it was warm, the sun was shining and the Mrs and I were bored. So I suggested we go fishing together for a couple of hours.
My motive was to offer her to come along, say no and then I could go alone, but she said she wanted to come along and use her new pink rod that I bought her. I wish she had said no, because she kicked my @$$ again. We both caught 1 bass each, but hers was bigger.
Here’s my dink…..
And here’s the wife’s slightly bigger dink, around 12 inches on her my rod and a 4” watermelon/red AlluringBaits senko copy and a split shot about 8 inches up from the hook.
I took my little inflatable boat out to a lake on Tuesday as I was supposed to be going back to work on Friday morning. This work trip has now been postponed until next week, so I should be able to get one more fishing trip in before then.
The lake is the one that Tex Mex knows that is between Taegu and Busan.
When I got on the water at 9:00am the water temps were only 42 degrees, but by mid-day it was up around 50 degrees and the fish started to bite. During the whole day I only got 5 bites. I hooked into 3 of them, but lost one of them right at the boat.
The bites I had were only on a drop shot rig and the Neko rig which I talked about in another post with Rob.
Enough of my blabbering, here’s some fish pics……….
Here’s the depth and temperature on my HB Smartcast.
This was my first post using Windows Live Writer, it was sooooo much easier. Thanks for all your help with that Nomad 
I went back to the same lake on Saturday from where I caught my dink last week and had a much better day. I also remember why I don’t like to fish on a weekend……there was at least 30 other bass fisherman (and fishergirls ).
I tried almost everything in my tackle bag without a single bite, then I tried a drop shot rig with a 4″ cut tail worm covered with mega strike and started getting bites almost immediately. In 4 hours bank fishing I landed 11 bass and missed at least another 11 bites due to my own fault of not concentrating fully. I was also using my new drop shot rod and reel with 6lb fluro line.
Here a few pics…..the 3 rd photo was probably the biggest of the day at around 13 inches.
I mean first dink of 2009….. lol
On Tuesday me and my buddy went driving around a few waters to see what the water levels were like ready for getting my boat in the water again. Unfortunately all the water levels are still very low, but we did manage to wet a line or 2 and I caught my first 2009 bass on a drop shot. My buddy caught one about the same size at the same time on a single tail grub with a split shot.
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