Ontario Bass opener 2012

That 4th Saturday in June always seems to take forever to arrive here in Ontario for the bass open season to start.

It has now replaced the childhood anticipation of Christmas eve to now as an adult Bass Opener eve.

Hit the Upper Niagara river with my buddy Marc first thing Saturday.
Beauty day, light breeze with a few clouds and not too hot.

Didn't set the world on fire by any means with only 9 fish in the boat but I've had worse days.

I hit the first 2 of the day on a Xzone mini slammer 309 and a Strike King series 5 sexy shad
crankbait.

Once we found the right drift location we had a lot of short strikes grabbing only the tail.

It took about an hour or so and Marc finally broke his skunk streak of a couple of outings without a fish.

Smallmouth in that current on light tackle are absolutely the funnest fishing there is.

Hit a few more on the Mini Slammer and one more on the crankbait.

Just after noon the pleasure boat traffic picked up big time and some of them didn't give a crap we were fishing and only in a 14' 6" tinny and blasted by with big wakes.

We stuck it out for a while but after a couple of bigger wakes splashing in the boat we decided to call it a day.

Hope the weather and wind co-operate from here on in so we can get out 1 or 2 evenings after work local and either Saturday or Sunday to a destination spot.

Cheers!

Scotty