little birch and big birch

[luckycrank]

Anybody here frequent these fisheries ..in terms of smallmouth bass production. Any good ?

Dont look to bad on paper

[scooby doo]

Yes, both can be excellent smallmouth lakes if you can find them! I've had my best luck early in the year when they are still around spawning beds.

[Tom Sawyer]

Some dandy brown bass in Big Birch, caught quite a few.

[IceHawk]

Both are real good but I personally prefer little Birch over Big for smallies.

[Rick G]

Both are good lakes for smallies. Plenty of hard bottom structure and a good forage base makes bass grow big out there. Don't be surprised if you get a few pike and a walleye or two as well

[Trout26]

Thinking about going to big birch on Friday to try my luck at some bass. wondering if anyone has any tips for me for largemouth and smallmouth tried once last year and found some decent largemouth but only a couple little smallies. Thanks

[Rick G]

Rocky structure has always been good to me for the brown bass on Big Birch. The Northern basin has tons of good places to try out, start your search around the island  lipless crankbaits work most days, keep some tubes and worms rigged up too incase they want a slow presentation.

[Trout26]

thanks for the heads up im going to give it a try from first light until the boat traffic gets too bad. hopefully I can find a couple big ones sounds like there are some nice fish in there.

[ScreamingEagle66]

Trout26, I will probably see ya out there Friday.

[Rick G]

thanks for the heads up im going to give it a try from first light until the boat traffic gets too bad. hopefully I can find a couple big ones sounds like there are some nice fish in there.

Some football shaped smallies

[Trout26]

does a guy have to fish a little deeper on that lake. seemed like last time out found more fish deeper than up in the weeds or it could of just been the day too.

[Tom Sawyer]

Fish typical walleye structure along weed edges with crawlers and leeches on Lindy rigs, this time of year out there. You will catch plenty of brownies, along with a bonus eyeball or two. Don't ever overlook the edges of reeds. In the summer months rock really isn't important at all to find smallmoth out there. The biggest fish relate to the roaming schools of perch. Look for these pods of baitfish suspended off structure, and smallies are never far from it. Smallmouth, along with other predators, generally feeding out from structure, or from beneath. Deep diving Rapala Xraps in perch patterns will put the smack down on the bigger bruisers, if they're feeding from beneath the pods.

 

[Trout26]

thanks for the info guys. we went out Friday for awhile tried for smallies for a bit caught nothing so went after some largemouth and did pretty well. one thing I noticed is there isn't much for good weeds out there. but we just fished the north part of the lake too. maybe there is better weeds on the other half.