Clayton lake short report

[fish4ever]

First time on the lake on Saturday , nice weather early morning, and couldn't have asked for better company. Lot of timber down the lake which made it interesting ( lot of snags ;-( )
Anyhow, we opted not to use live bait and concentrated on working all other "fake" lures.
We didn't have much luck with Pike/Walleye, Bass was the only willing to cooperate, mostly smaller size, the only one worthy of a picture was this LG who I saw running to a wacky senko watermelon ( I guessed it was a 2 -2.5 lbs).

Sorry for the bad-quality pictures, it is a cellphone pictures, since reading 24/7 unfortunate camera tragedies, I'm only taking cell phones on fishing trips
Definitely planning to go back and do some fishing again
Thanks for reading
F4E

[Raminator]

It has walleye and pike,but is known as a LMB lake,it is very shallow for the most part, I fished it in the 70's regularly,(my dad had a farm in almonte),and a few times last year,and had great luck with big bass.,I usually fish my 12' tinny due to I fish the village end,very shallow/tons of flooded timber with a small launch. it is a clean lake as well,

[Jimmy_1]

Very nice!
On the brightside at least you were out fishing!
You'll get those BEAST Clayton Lake Bass next time!

[Andy_L]

I like Clayton as well...great bass lake...only issue i have with that lake is DEER FLIES!!! I went there twice last summer and both times i ended up driven off the lake by the dreaded deer fly...they were brutal!!!

[Mike M]

I don't think it matters where you go this year with respect to deer flies. They seem to be bad everywhere. We need some hot weather to drive the little buggers off.

[DropShotr]

Thanks for the report and pic. Good to hear you had some luck.

Sorry for the bad-quality pictures, it is a cellphone pictures, since reading 24/7 unfortunate camera tragedies, I'm only taking cell phones on fishing trips

Bring a camera. If you go with this logic, then you should leave your rods at home because of all the rods 24/7 breaks in a season.


DropShot'r

[Lonnie]

A tip on taking photos - unless you're striving for some special effect (which can be cool if done right) - always try to remember to keep the sun to the photographers back.
cheers,
LK

[fish4ever]

Thanks for the feedback, I'll try harder next time. And Indeed, it is a sky clear and beautiful lake, definitely worth going back again and again.

Lonnie,
Is your photography tip tried ? I usually find if you keep the sun or any light source behind the subject, it usually fools the camera engine and the camera adjust the aperture and exposure to compensate for the light and hence you end up with dark faced subject pictures. If you keep the sun in the face of the subject then you end up with the shades in the faces, I find the bets pictures are on an overcast day. I'll bring my camera next time.

Have a wonderful day

[fish4ever]

Thanks for the feedback, I'll try harder next time. And Indeed, it is a sky clear and beautiful lake, definitely worth going back again and again.

Lonnie,
Is your photography tip tried ? I usually find if you keep the sun or any light source behind the subject, it usually fools the camera engine and the camera adjust the aperture and exposure to compensate for the light and hence you end up with dark faced subject pictures. If you keep the sun in the face of the subject then you end up with the shades in the faces, I find the bets pictures are on an overcast day. I'll bring my camera next time.

Have a wonderful day

[Lonnie]

over the years I have had many a big fish photos ruined by shafts of light or haze sneaking into the shot - much like the ones in your photo, and they are not always visible to your eye when your taking the shot. It alwasy occurred when the sun was in front of the camera lens. To combat the shade around eyes and ball caps - use a flash to reach up under these areas and illumnate them... even with a flash it is tough to get great shots on a bright sunny day, so if it's close to the end of the day you could hold the fish in a livewell until the sun starts to set.
good luck and I look forward to seeing some great shots of that pending 5lber..

cheers,
LK

[Jimmy_1]

A tip on taking photos - unless you're striving for some special effect (which can be cool if done right) - always try to remember to keep the sun to the photographers back.
cheers,
LK

YEP! Our wedding photographer told us he hoped it was overcast on our wedding day. Said shooting on sunny days makes it real tough....the only good part was digital is corrective....I can't imagine in the days when film was still used! At $1000+ I'd be MIGHTY upset if majority of the 500 pics you get for that were ruined from sun!

Awsome advice for photos right there!