Thick as pea soup, it was.

[mike64]

Took the boat out fishing early Sunday morning. There was fog on the lake as thick as I've ever seen it. After I left the public launch and got out in the open lake, I lost my bearings and wasn't sure where I was, on a 1300 acre lake I've been on several times before. It was weird and spooky, and very cool, being out on the lake in those conditions. So I got the trolling motor going and took it nice and slow. At one point I heard a couple guys in another boat talking about the Tigers perfectly clear, but I couldn't see any trace of them. Fog didn't burn off for over 2 hours.

Unfortunately the fog seemed to hide the fish from me too

Here's some pics from my cell camera. Wish I'd brought a better one--

View from the bow...

...view from the stern.

starting to clear...

 

[puddle jumper]

Re: Thick as pea soup, it was.

The day you wished there as a wind. Been there and needed my compass to get home.

 

[scipper77]

Re: Thick as pea soup, it was.

That looks like a great day to catch fish!!! Bass really let down there guard when there is little light penetrating the water during the day time!! All you need to make it a perfect day is a little wind and rain to help scatter the baitfish.

 

[j_martin]

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Back before GPS, I did pretty good in a bass tournament once because I suspected fog might set in. I mapped the route to the best places by compass heading and time on plane.

As luck would have it, on the second day, pea soup fog shrouded the lake for the first two hours, and I drew a partner without a boat who was legally blind. I didn't even tell him it was foggy. We fished Hardscrabble Point systematically for 2 hours before anybody else got there. The only close call was where some idiot tied up his sailboat to a point (hazard) buoy I had planned to hook a hard right around.

 

[ziggy]

Re: Thick as pea soup, it was.

looks like fun mike64.

we ran into some of the same on sun. morning too. i think ours lasted 3 or 4 hours into the morning. it musta been 99% humidity. my boat was soaked. had to wipe the windows repeatedly.

sunrise looking east

not sure what direction i'm looking. ese i think?

probably looking back west

certainly watching the sunrise again to the east..

sure was fun.
we went out sat. around 4pm to our local watering hole. 1800 sq acre lake. it was amazingly dead. same with sat. nights boating fun. after dark, the moon came up full and orange, it was beautiful.. stayed out till 11:30 or so. then up for that fun foggy morning run. i don't think there was anyone else on the lake. least i couldn't see them... nor hear them. just dead calm and silence... it was fun. started getting busy around noon so we left. + we were starving. the crackers and cheese was running low... fun to see someone else having the same fun i was. cool man..

 

[WAVENBYE2]

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Cool pics Ya'll!

 

[mike64]

Re: Thick as pea soup, it was.

Puddlejumper, I had a compass on my boat but it broke last year. Never really thought I needed to replace it, because I'm always on inland lakes where it's easy to see where you are. I was kind of wishing I had it that day though.

scipper77 and j martin, the fog didn't help me out with the fishing. I tried a bass stopper, then live bait, nothin. They were jumping all around me too, taunting me I think.

Nice pics ziggy!

 

[Soundbounder]

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Nice photos!

here is a photo from a foggy day in May near Mystic CT.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ebsJot-wv_Q/Sg7cvH4gBKI/AAAAAAAAClo/MssKh6MgCtc/s1600-h/may+ct2009+009.jpg

 

[scipper77]

Re: Thick as pea soup, it was.

Puddlejumper, I had a compass on my boat but it broke last year. Never really thought I needed to replace it, because I'm always on inland lakes where it's easy to see where you are. I was kind of wishing I had it that day though.

scipper77 and j martin, the fog didn't help me out with the fishing. I tried a bass stopper, then live bait, nothin. They were jumping all around me too, taunting me I think.

Nice pics ziggy!

When the sun is not able to penetrate the water during the daytime the baitfish are more likely to be moving around (and the bass that eat them also). This is usually a good time to use crankbaits and spinnerbaits. Soft plastics are better for finding the less active bass that are hiding in the weeds. Of course it's up to the bass what will work and when.

 

[aspeck]

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Nice photos!

here is a photo from a foggy day in May near Mystic CT.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ebsJot-wv_Q/Sg7cvH4gBKI/AAAAAAAAClo/MssKh6MgCtc/s1600-h/may+ct2009+009.jpg

A ghost ship if I ever saw one, matey!

 

[BLU LUNCH]

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I did the fog a few times on Long Island Sound last year we were about 1 mile out drift fishing and a guy stopped and said he was lost and asked were we were...crazy people. The picture is going under the Niantic River railroad bridge the same day..........

 

[mike64]

Re: Thick as pea soup, it was.

Thanks for the fishing tips, scipper77. I need all the advice I can get!

Soundbounder & Blu Lunch, nice pics.