Jul 19 2022
Mike Adel
Fry
First time to Toby. My son & I got to Toby lake early, knowing the temps were going to rise soon – and having watched a frogging video that had us juiced. Fished topwater on all the deep water shorelines & points for over 2 hours – missed a couple and caught 3 over 2 pounds (including one 5-pounder). They didnt hit anything noisy, just wanted a quiet approach. But no frogging bananza. By 8:30 or so we put away the frogs, tied on our Wiggle Warts and moved out into one of the main channels & followed it up the lake. About 100 yards up from the boat ramp, the channel was 9-10 ft deep & edges of channel were in 6-7 ft with stumps & trees. We were into them by 9am on shad-colored cranks running 6ft deep and bumping into stumps & humps – caught another 5-pounder, 3 more over 4, and several over 2-½. Things were heating up! We caught fish til 11am or so & took a lunch break. After lunch the air temp was 102, water temp 85 – thank God for a decent breeze just about all day. We went back to the creek channel and caught 2-3 more over 4 pounds and others in the 2-3 pound range. We quit by 3pm, the wind died down some & it got brutal. Overall – great day in the sun. 25-30 fish, 2 over 5, 6 over 4, and all the rest between 2-4 pounds. Only 2 culls all day. And – these fish were big-shouldered brutes. Not positive, but most looked like Florida strains with smaller mouth & mean attitudes. We’ll definitely be back. Great addition PWF !
Jul 19 2022
Joshua Massoud
Keeper
Member Since :
2021
Number of Posts :
487
ty for the report, headed up there next week – rare instance where I’m going to brave the 105 degree heat. I haven’t fished a ton this summer. Last summer was great with 95-98 degree heat and several mini storms rolling through.