Silver Lake was Good to Daddy on Father's Day

air temperature 65 degrees
water temperature 71 degrees
Fishing with a floating broken rapala and a 6 inch power worm on a Texas Rig.

I hit Silver Lake early with one of my fishing buddies Ty, who is a volunteer firefighter for Sussex Township.  It was an overcast morning that never warmed up.  We thought we were going to get rained on once or twice and the lake temperature was warmer than the air temperature.

I threw the Rapala for about 4 casts and still got some weeds.  I switched poles and on my second cast I got young largemouth.  There would be no putting the Texas rig down at this point.  Overall, the lake had a lot of vegetation and a lot of rocks.  My Eagle 360c depth finder was picking up a fairly rocky\sandy bottom as well as some big rocks in 6 to 9 feet of water.  Silver Lake never got any deeper than 10 feet but she was beautiful!  Although section (D) was very overgrown with small lily pads, I caught my second bass in section (D)!

I worked my way back to the other side and Section (C) was as sweet as I thought it would be.  In section (C) there is a rock about 15 feet from shore where there is another rock; this little bit of structure will most likely produce a fish every time, it really is that nice of a spot.

Ty finally hooked up a pickerel as we were heading back in and he gave the fish a nice sportsman release, although he did get his hands on it.  By the end of the day, all three of my largemouth bass were about the same size and there were two strikes that I missed.  I am sure there are some 5-pounders in Silver Lake, but I'll have to come back for them on another day.  However, I may have to bring a new worm as today's worm got beaten up.