Crappie and Gills 4/23

[Travis C.]

Man it was windy today!

Fished for a couple hours with the trout magnets on my honey hole. Caught 11 crappie (4 keeper size) and 5 bluegill (2 keeper size) but all were released. They hit a black/chart and white/chart trout magnets fished without a float and slow steady retrieve no twitching. I anchored upstream from where I wanted to fish then with the aid of the wind could cast a mile past. A slow steady crank back resulted in several fish and more missed due to the wind putting a belly in the line.

It looks like the crappie will be plentiful there for some time to come. As of last year, I had never caught one below 10 inches. Then late last year caught a couple under, this year I have caught several 6-8" ones and now the attached really small one. Just hope the boom in population doesn't hurt the top end as there are 14-15" fish among them.

Fun times!!

[Alphahawk]

Nice fish! Great colors on those Gills. I couldn't find anyway to get out of....or cast down wind.....fishing the bank at Willamsport today. Did get some good ones though....but conditions were tough for a UL guy.



Regards

[vincent]

Nice fish.

I tried the TM last weekend without split shot, and changed the retrieve to super slow with occasional twitch. Got about 7 gills, and missed a couple.

[chaseasl]

Nice catches

[Travis C.]

Originally Posted by Alphahawk

I couldn't find anyway to get out of....or cast down wind.....fishing the bank at Willamsport today.

Regards

I couldn't avoid it today either instead sat right in it. Took a piece of 10 ft pipe that I fashion into a park pole for the wind. Paddled out to the "spot" which I knew pretty comfortably was no deeper than 4-6 ft and as I plunged it into the bottom of the lake the pipe made a lovely bloooop sound (note to self...deeper than 10 ft in that spot).

Luckily my small anchor hung in a tree or limb that stuck us.

[nomad60]

Nice catches, Travis. It sure was windy out today, wasn't it? My aluminum boat was all over the marina lagoon today and it took me 3 tries to get it on the trailer. That's why I don't go on weekends when it's crowded LOL

[Travis C.]

Originally Posted by nomad60

Nice catches, Travis. It sure was windy out today, wasn't it?

Thanks! Yeah, I was rowing the polarkraft today. To get to my spot its only a hundred yards or so but it was all against the wind. Water was splashing on strokes getting mini me wet but she's half fish anyway.

[Alphahawk]

Rowing in that wind....even only 100 yards gave you a pretty good strain. I'm ready for it to calm down.



Regards

[Travis C.]

Originally Posted by Alphahawk

Rowing in that wind....even only 100 yards gave you a pretty good strain. I'm ready for it to calm down.

Regards

Speaking of wind Alpha, what's your stake-out pole made of? How long is it?

[Alphahawk]

Originally Posted by Travis C.

Speaking of wind Alpha, what's your stake-out pole made of? How long is it?

Made from some sort of tough fiberglass....is 8 foot long and it floats if you should drop it in the water. It sure makes fishing for Gills and crappie much easier when you find them. Wish I had it last year.


Regards

[MNfisher]

Nice fish Travis! I bet that row was intense!