SWEET!!!! I got out for a couple hours yesterday and got a nice mess of crappies, but think I'm going to start keeping gills now too -they were all around the boat looking at me - means it's time to catch-n-fillet.
Went back up to Ontario and got 21 crappie and 31 gills
SWEET!!!! I got out for a couple hours yesterday and got a nice mess of crappies, but think I'm going to start keeping gills now too -they were all around the boat looking at me - means it's time to catch-n-fillet.
Nice catch and good pictures! The gills eat just find got alot of them ice fishing at Silver Lake this past winter. Still not good fishng down here got hit by a flash flood storm last night.
1 The gills
Gonna be trolling for browns on Ontario this weekend. Last check they were still shallow.
A friend of a friend was out there sat. while we were catching crappie and gills and he was fishing a derby and catching browns in 7 ft. of water on spoons
We were fishing 8-20 FOW, most fish were early (before 9AM) in 8-11 FOW.
The water was gin-clear, so we went with black/silver jr thundersticks.
A couple of the browns we got:
My son:
My stepson:
Me:
Saturday, we landed 5 of 6, one was Atlantic that we released because it was too small, and we had one come unbuttoned right at the back of the boat.
Sunday we only boated 1 of 4. Not sure what was going on with that, we'd fight them all the way from 300 feet out, and when they would get just outside of net range, they come unhooked. Strange! One of the fish that came off on Sunday was a king that would be in the 25 lb range. Took my son-in-law 15 minutes to fight it to the back of the boat, only for it to get off
We cooked up one of them on the fire at the camp site - butter, salt, pepper, and old bay wrapped in a couple layers of foil and tossed right on the coals.
Turned out delicious! A couple will go on the smoker too
Nice! Take this for what its worth..but on the misses, We have found that a single hook is actually better then a Trebble (on spoons anyway)