Big Boy Lake, Cass County (all postings)

July 7: My son and his friend went out for sunnies after dinner and threw into pockets of the pads and caught 16 fish in about 35 minutes. They were using a slip bobber with a small leech.

July 5-8. I have caught some nice fish on this lake and this weekend was no different although I didn't catch anything over 5 pounds. The smallest fish I caught was 2 pounds. I fished alot of docks, reeds and did throw some frogs in pads and laid down grass. The water level is high and the best luck I had was up against brush piles in very tight cover. The bait, a craw tube with a 3/8 oz. sinker. The docks produced fish on Northland Dipsticks on a 3/16 oz. Northland Lipstick hook and docks also produced with a jig/pig. Fished a jig/pig, craw tube and Dipstick in the reeds and caught only a couple of fish. I did not even get a blow up in the pads or the grass. The fishing was not fast and furious, but there were enough hook ups to keep one interested.

June 25, 2012. Only fished a couple of hours on this lake as that is all that time permitted. My friend was targeting pike and caught several small pike. He had fished the lake yesterday and caught a couple of 5 pounders. Pike generally are not trophy size in this lake, but you can catch a bunch of them everywhere. As for largemouth bass, I fished the weeds in 5-8 feet of water and had zero luck. Probably because I was allowing my friend to have some pike action. This lake does hold some nice bass as my 3 biggest bass in my life have all come from this lake. Each one over 6 pounds.