Thread: NE Ohio crappie action.

"The gin clear water is kinda our nemesis up here some lakes are so clear you can see the bottom in nearly 20 fow."

That would be the catch 22, it would be a rare time to ever see the bottom in more than a couple of feet of water and even at that it wouldn't be super clear.
It's funny you mentioned perch. I'm not sure where they have come from but there are a few lakes around here that we've been catching a few perch in lately. One lake I've fished for over 40 years and just in the last 4/5 years I've seen a few caught. Another lake I fish the population is a little better, a friend and I caught a dozen at this lake one day and we were targeting them

With the zebras making the water clear allowing the weeds to grow thick even in 15+ fow providing excellent spawning cover for the perch to drape their eggs and providing an abundance for food for the perch with the massive amount of gizzard Shad that are thriving in those deep weeds it’s the perfect storm for perch and shell crackers. It’s to the point where I can target jumbo perch 10 mins from home rather than go to Lake Erie lots of sorting but a couple lakes around here regularly produce 10inch plus perch in numbers. Once you locate a pod of larger ones if you have the time you can follow them from the weedy flats in 14 fow in the summer to there deep 20 plus fow water hideouts in the winter.


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It’s the wind from hell out here but I found some in a sorta protected area let y’all know the rest of the story later


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I agree 100%. I love the clear lakes for fishing. When it comes to crappie on the other hand, I do my damage in the dirty water lakes. Get nice crappie in the MWC lakes. Do my perch and walleye fishing up at Chautaqua lake.

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some nice ones there bud. you got me thinking I should go fishing after I get off work lol.

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It’s the wind from hell out here but I found some in a sorta protected area let y’all know the rest of the story later


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Apparently I missed this page earlier today. Do it up bro! Your reports and pix always seem to make me jealous.

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It’s like an arctic hurricane out here but we’re doing it up lots of shorts and gills but getting some keepers. I called my buddy after I located them and talked him into freezing with me.


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Originally Posted by bobberbucket

It’s like an arctic hurricane out here but we’re doing it up lots of shorts and gills but getting some keepers. I called my buddy after I located them and talked him into freezing with me.


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You are nuts! I’m workin and I swear I just saw a tumbleweed blow across the road. INSANE wind


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