...it needs some life breathed into it. Maybe I should use LIGHTNING, like Dr. Frankenstein.
Anyway, I fished Spruce Run on Wed Mar 29th. I fish for Crappie and Largemouth and Hybrids there. I can conclude that "I suck there in the early season". I have done extraordinary there in May/June in years past. But lately I just can't do anything there in the early season (Mar-Apr). On Wed 29th, I saw a guy with 3 Pike and a Crappie. One other had 1 Largemouth, small, and another had 1 Pike.
I have heard stories of how horrible fishing is there through the ice. Yet I know d**n well that there is a plethora of fish there. They do not magically appear on some days and do a Houdini on other days, but it sure seems like it. THEY ARE IN THERE 24-7-365! That nut is very hard to crack!
My ideas so far are:
1) The fish there are very "time-slot" active. They are either ON or OFF. You can drag a squirming nightcrawler across their face sometimes and they will not move a muscle. (Fish do sleep)
2) There is a plethora of bait, mostly immature herring, in there. That is a fact. No wonder they don't want to eat a Rapala or anything else that is hard and chewy and full of hooks.
3) Assuming no 1 is true, maybe there is not the huge number of gamefish in there that I claimed. When they are "turned-on", it just seems like it.
Nothing like a forum for the wide array of responses that will now follow...
