FISHING SEASON 09!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[likestofish]

wow those are some small bass to be keeping they still had a lot of growing to do the one dosnt even look 12 inchs.

previous post explains but to many bass in the lake thats about average size. The biologist that came by says we need about 4000 removed this year. The ratio between predator and forage is out of wack

 

[MultispeciesTamer]

hmm this make sense as to why the fish were so thin good to hear your helping by keeping some then.

 

[likestofish]

yeah they are long but very skinny so really for a decent fry need about 40 of them. But they also remove bass through electro shocking and add shad every summer.

 

[MultispeciesTamer]

Maybe they should be giving them trout

 

[cichlid fiend]

I didnt plan on doing any fishing today. After going to the MFK meet and shark aquarium. I met up with my brother and before we went and grabed something to eat we stoped for a 15 minute quicky. I was able to get a very small one and he let a decent one get away(2lbs+).

I was happy to meet some of the poeple from my favorite site today. Plus i picked up a nice red terror from shark aquarium!!!!!!!!!!!

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[cichlid fiend]

I took my little cousin fishing today. I set him up with a bobber and some night crawlers. He caught a shiner and one bluegill. I wasnt able to catch anything, i had two bites tho one on a "sebil" swim bait and the other on a yum frog.

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[cichlid fiend]

AIR TEMP-H-54/41

BAR PRES-29.70

SPOTS FISHED-1

FISH LANDED-6

TIME FISHED-1.5 HRS

I stopped at the lake around the corner from my house today after work. I was able to bang alittle one soon as i got there. Shortly after that i had a CP on but he got off before i could get him to shore. Out of no where it started to rain SUPER hard. Im glad i didnt leave cause my next 7 cast in the rain produced 5 bass but after the rain stopped so did the bite. Im still tring to come up with a theory on why was that.

All in all it was a decent fishing day, if i could of banged some big ones it would of been a excellent day.

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[cichlid fiend]

Got off of work at 4 and was fishing by 4:30. It was past prime time but i was still able to land two bass. The last few weeks the bite has been alittle slow but today i figured out that its rubber time. I caught one on a sebil swim bait and after that i couldnt buy a bite, so i tied on a 1/4oz bullet weight with a 10" green pumpkinseed u-tail. First cast bam a nice 15"er. I had another one but i didnt let the fish take it long enough and pulled the worm rite out of its month. I had a few bites after that but i think they were bluegills just bitting at the tail of the worm.

All in all a good work/fishing day!!

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[MultispeciesTamer]

so how many keepers you up to now?

 

[MultispeciesTamer]

well me and my friend went down to the river today as it is the opening day of catch and release bass fishing. There was severe tunderstorm warnings for the day so i figgered we might catch a few but we wouldnt do great well I was wrong. So we fished the first spot for an hour i get board so i pull out my fun rod(an ice fishing pole) i set it up with a bobber and worm and started drift fishing it about 2 feet away from shore and 4 feet deep and oh course what do i hook of all thing a dang steelhead. That didn't end well the line broke during the first run. So i went and retied this time on my bass pole and a caught a nice 1 pound largie that was spawning up next to shore. Soon after I caught a bluegill. we moved to spot 2 and on the first cast I catch a nice 2 pound smallie. then comes the first storm so we hightail it back to the car and take of to spot 3. spot 3 is under a bridge which was out of the rain I caught a few more smallies like 2-3 or so. My budy still with none so I stopped and helped him (he had been fishing to fast) soon after he loses one up next to shore. a few cast later he gets one around 10 inchs. Oh all these smallies so far were caught on tube jigs. After a while we leave and go to another spot (4) across the river. We catch nothing so we move up river to spot 5. I now have on a rapala origianl floater gold and black about a 4-5 inch lure. On are way down some lady says they caught a 23 inch smallmouth the day before and that her son had caught a few walleye today and we talked to another guy who had caught a few steelhead. We started fishing and first cast i hook and have a steelhead throw me off a few cast later I got another smallie. we continued to fish as a nother storm came and passed over and poured rain fishing and catching smallies the whole time me and my budy. I even managed to snag a sucker and i hooked and lost my rapala on a 15 pound quillback carpsucker. so we fish around with some similar baits and keep catching smallies. the fishing started to slow so we headed back to spot 1 this time i catch 2 smallies one even jumped out of the water as i was lifting my lure out to recast. It was starting to get dark so we decided will save the rest for tomorrow.

hours fished 8
12:00-8:00 aprox

Fish caught 19 bass or 18

and 1 sucker

pics are on my friends phone and he has the computer hook up at his house so it might be a few days for pics