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FALL NEWSLETTER

Wet!! That is the best way to describe the conditions we experienced on the Big D throughout the spring and summer months. Overall the fishing was very consistent. We averaged 40-50 smallies per trip between June and late August. Currently, early September numbers rival the best I've ever experienced on the Delaware as clients are being treated to 80 per day on average and a few larger bass are starting to show up.

We really changed our tactics this summer with the lack of low, clear water. Rattling crankbaits like the Cordell Spot or Xcaliber's rattling crank worked very well during stained water conditions, as did smaller profile spinnerbaits, Yum grubs and Mizmo tubes. During less stained water periods, Yum Dingers, Sase Salty Shads and buzzbaits were our go-to lures. The cool thing about elevated flows during the summer is that we saw good quality bass on many trips.

Here are some tallies for client numbers for spring/summer 2009:

Doug Wood and TIm Oakes boated 83 smallies on their May trip while throwing spinnerbaits and Yum Dingers.
Glenn Melrose and son, Aaron boated 77 smallies on Dingers and Case SSS in May.
Jay Rosenthal did his third trip of the season with son, Max (11) and the 3 of us boated 75 smallmouth, with Max taking the 2 biggest bass of the day! Another trip Jay had with his buddy boated 59 smallies on Mizmo tubes.
Carl Wursbach and buddy, Shawn, tallies 88 smallies on their early September trip while throwing various lures. Most fish ate Yum grubs, stick worm/jig combo or other various soft plastics.
Bob Nyce and Joe Rothdeutsch boated 88 bass on their Sept. outing.
Doug Wood came back and fished with me Labor Day weekend and we cleaned 'em up! 103 landed and a slew of others missed with most bass eating Yum Dinger/jig combo.
Most other clients who fished with me between June and late August, if their trips was 8 hours in length, averaged between 40-60 smallies.

Levels are at summertime lows currently, but rain is in the forecast for last this week. October fishing lis setting up to be outstanding! Dates are available for bookings.

Other news--Service Electric TV2 is currently airing our Tv Show at 8:30pm Sunday evenings. Check out our new wev page devoted exclusively to the TV Show--www.backwoodsanglertv.com.

As usual I want to thank my sponsors who are a key to my success. And thank you to all my clients for their continued patronage of my business.

Peace,

Blaine