I was able to get a couple trips in this weekend, I had the in-laws up on Saturday and took my Father-in-law for some crappie fishing on a local lake...crappies still were not co-operation but were able to complete a 3 species day...Splake, Pike and Bass....the camera was on the fritz so no pics
On Sunday Chowder Head Made the trip up to try some crappie fishing as well...we hit the same bank that I fished the day befor but the fishing was a lot slower, I pulled in one small Bass and ChowderHead caught 3 with a few gills on the side...The weatehr turned on us high winds and crazy rain...we stuck it out for a few hours
first cast ChowderHead had a fish on
these little guys were hitting our minnows on floats
Today the Weather co-operated much better, we still had the wind and rain but not to the extent we had the day before...so we broke out the canoe...After reaching the lake I noticed we (meaning me) forgot the mount from my trolling motor...an Hour later we were fianlly on the water
Still looking for crappies we took some local advice and headed to a rock point sourrounded by a weedbed.
a few minutes in...i got a little tug and pulled home this pike
then a few small Largemouth Bass
we did finaly find one tiny Crappie..but no freinds
Pike were enjoying the crappie jigs, I caught this guy on a Fuzzy grub tipped with a minnow....Chowder Head had a beauty Pike on (biggets I have seen in this lake) we got up to the boat before he bit him off...not 2 seconds after my "thats what you get for using fireline over powerpro" I get bit off by a much smaller Pike.
heres my big pike of the day
followed by another smaller pike
The wind picked up and bit slowed down so we moved to an area I had success while ice fishing...not there for a few minutes when we were attached by some nice smallies
this guy was the big boy
this Pike left a present for me as he crapped all over my tackled bag while I tried to un hook him. He was one of a few Pike that we caight with visible body scars
2 more nice smallies ended the trip
After out-fishing me on day one, ChowderHead had a ruff outing catchig few fish and getting snagged more then I thought humanly possible..he lost 5 jigs not including those bit off. We joked that he spent more time as my photographer..but he really did want to get a pic in as well......
If this is how the Pike and Bass fisihing is on this lake I cant wait till the season opens so we can target them and start using llures and presentations desgned to bring the big dogs in...