Lake of Egypt Trip July 2023

 

We had a really great family weekend getaway to Lake of Egypt last weekend. The weather was filled with your typical hot and steamy July days in the Heartland. The days I am talking about are the ones you walk outside your house at 5:30am and it is already 80 degrees and muggy. The windows in your house have condensation on the inside of the windows because it is cool and dry on the inside of the house but the outside feels like a wet sauna.

One of the first thing we did from the first picture in this post is catch some crappie! Lil' Shaka and I hooked up with Matt Mavigliano from 3PoundFishing.com who guides for crappie on Lake Of Egypt. If you ever want to fish for crappie on Lake of Egypt we definitely recommend him. HE KNOWS HIS STUFF! We caught about 40-50 crappie on that day. Matt used Livescope for our fishing session and put us on many brush piles all over the lake. It was like fishing in a digital arcade, and you could even see the fish getting yanked off the Livescope screen! To a techie like me, I was more excited at the Livescope technology compared to anything else. Livescope will definitely be something I will get at some point.

On the other mornings that we went out to fish, we had good luck on a couple of different baits. For whatever reason I had success the last couple of weeks using a Strike King Bitsy Bug Mini Jig with a Zoom Speed Craw trailer. I am here to tell you that I was KILLING them on this bait. Good size bass were going after this bait several times in two days. Both Lil' Shaka and I have always had great success using this specific bait. We think it has to do with the slower fall. And, because of the light weight, you can swim the bait back to the boat or bank a little more effectively.

The other bait that was getting it done during the trip was a good old trusty Zoom Trick worm. They were hitting this bait just as much on the fall and also on the retrieve back to the boat. I think Lil' Shaka caught a couple on the Zoom Trick worm and so did I.

As we continue to visit Lake of Egypt, we become more aware of the fishing patterns. We also rented a pontoon boat and took it out for a spin! We did some tubing as well and you can bet we will be back doing our thing again hopefully in the fall.  Tight lines to you all!