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    Finally had a decent day on the water! I ended up cleaning 16 crappie probably caught around 23-25. I caught a variety of fish.. A pile of gills, a monster largemouth, 5 smallmouths, and a big ugly catfish that went 10.5 lbs. the goal today was to explore and that’s just what I did. I found some weedbeds in 14 fow and thought it was going to be the jackpot for crappie, well I was wrong. I fished that weedbed for 20 minutes or so and only landed a few decent perch. I tried the deeper edges off the shallows trying to locate structure on the drop offs and didn’t find much structure, I did mark some humps and bowls and put waypoints on them. The humps and Bowls were anywhere from 10-17 fow. I didn’t catch much in them just some perch. As far as the crappie went I found some nice bottom with structure they seemed to like. All of the crappie I caught were in deeper water and they were packed in there. I even found a few crappie suspended, I couldn’t see anything that would attract them but I was catching them. While Looking around I can promise you one thing, the fish aren’t going to starve, I marked and seen so much baitfish I think every fish could eat nonstop for a year and there will still be a billion bait fish. Behind some of the islands were just insane. I think I need to find a more efficient way to fish deeper water. I was running a 1/16 oz jighead on the bottom and a 1/24 oz jighead about 14 inches above that. It seems like it took forever to get down to the right depth. All my crappie were caught with a small Bobby garland jig tipped with small minnow. What kind of rig do you guys use for deeper structure to get your bait down a little faster? I’ve never really fished this deep for crappie and I am not setup for it. I got lucky because we had minimal wind today and I don’t have a trolling motor setup to help me with control. So I know I have to figure something out there because I don’t want to be dropping an anchor all the time.


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    I had a good day too. Put 17 crappies in the box. Most were under ten but the seven biggest were all over twelve. Decided to do some bluegill bed fishing. Used one of my Ken E Keepum hand tied hair jigs tipped with a waxworm and had a blast. There was a guy there with a rental boat and he was struggling to put some fish in the box. Invited him to follow me to a bedding area I was on my way to. He didn’t have the right equipment for gillin but he gave it his best shot. Put half a dozen in his basket so I gave him some of mine to take home. Might of had thirty total when he left. I kept ten gills and five perch to go with my crappies. Stayed and just enjoyed the weather until after six. Just a beautiful day to be on the lake. Hope to get up to the big lake this week for some of those walleyes. They’re in close enough to take my boat out to get them.
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    Just typed up a report and hit the wrong button and deleted it....ugh...I’ve been busy on the home front of recent and haven’t been out since not this past Monday but the Monday before. Last outing I ended up with 15-16 to eat. I am trying to make it out a day next week and I am going to give pymatuning a shot. I do however have a few questions, locals are telling me that fishing shuts off after July when the water heats up... is this because the crappie spread out? Is this because everyone is too lazy to go out and find them in deep water? I marked a bunch of structure deep, on drop offs, located a few deeper weedbeds, and marked areas of interest throughout the spring and early summer. I plan of attempting to fish what I have marked and may even drift the flats to try to pick some up. Am I on the correct path? I’ve never fished pymatuning this late like I said before, but am excited to try it and test my skills. Just out of curiosity, I plan on using a drop shot method with two jigs suspended to fish the deeper water, good idea or no? If all else fails on my next outing maybe I will throw a few limits of walleye from Lake Erie in the freezer and hit up the local res for catch and release. The local res I know like the back of my hand so maybe it would help me improve on electronics! Just looking for a few pointers, also has anyone else been out chasing crappie?
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    Took my brother up there one day last week. He said he wanted to only keep twelve crappies that were over twelve inches. Gave it a good shot. Then decided to go gillin for a while. Good there too. Got hot and called it a day around one.
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    That’s a great catch chaunc! Can’t wait for it to cool off, I don’t do well in warm weather. Unfortunately there is a lot of summer left!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nwpacrappie View Post
    That’s a great catch chaunc! Can’t wait for it to cool off, I don’t do well in warm weather. Unfortunately there is a lot of summer left!
    I'm not fond of the heat either. My brain stalls out above 85*. Going to shift to late evening into the night. That used to be my summertime regiment on Conneaut Lake till I had a few near miss accidents with the "wild bunch." Conneaut Lake can wait till after the first frost.
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    Mchech, it’s 75 for me lol.. I fish every chance that I get, don’t get me wrong but it does get brutal.. when you fish Conneaut do you fish crappie or blue gills? I fished deep water sunfish one time there and had an absolute field day. It’s gotta be one of the better lakes in pa for them. I need to start expanding the horizon when it comes to fishing other bodies of water down around meadville, but time is such a restraint for me. I took probably 15-20 vacation days to fish spring into early summer, but when the vacations ended work piled up at home and had to do the chores around the house on my days off. Would love to pick someone’s brain on similarities and differences on how wilhelm, pymatuning, Conneaut, and shenango fish. ( mainly for crappie..) I watch tons of videos, but unless you figure it out yourself it’s kind of tough! Someday I hope to figure out these fish.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Nwpacrappie View Post
    Mchech, it’s 75 for me lol.. I fish every chance that I get, don’t get me wrong but it does get brutal.. when you fish Conneaut do you fish crappie or blue gills? I fished deep water sunfish one time there and had an absolute field day. It’s gotta be one of the better lakes in pa for them. I need to start expanding the horizon when it comes to fishing other bodies of water down around meadville, but time is such a restraint for me. I took probably 15-20 vacation days to fish spring into early summer, but when the vacations ended work piled up at home and had to do the chores around the house on my days off. Would love to pick someone’s brain on similarities and differences on how wilhelm, pymatuning, Conneaut, and shenango fish. ( mainly for crappie..) I watch tons of videos, but unless you figure it out yourself it’s kind of tough! Someday I hope to figure out these fish.
    There was a time (70's thru early 80's) I spent every chance I had on CL. Dang thing is work, marriage, family etc. prevents a person from staying up to date. Interests wander to years fly fishing for trout then walleye and perch on Erie. About 10 years of the fall-winter steelheading on Erie creeks so none of my CL knowledge is recent. I've caught some nice crappies in CL years ago. Springtime canals were good for crappie. Then north end about 12-14 ft was always good close to dark. That was before waverunners. Now it looks like a cartoon with anything that will float having at it. I will not go close to CL in the summer. Most recent info a few years old was deep water bluegills in the fall. Like late October thru Nov.
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    It’s finally happened to me yesterday at Pymatuning. Didn’t catch a single crappie all morning. Checked 7 spots that have produced for me for years but none held fish. Tried the weed lines and bluegill beds and found some keeper gills and perch. Kept 14 perch from 8 to 11 inches and 10 gills, all 7 and better. BG itty bitts put all of them in the box. Color didn’t matter.
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    Quote Originally Posted by chaunc View Post
    It’s finally happened to me yesterday at Pymatuning. Didn’t catch a single crappie all morning. Checked 7 spots that have produced for me for years but none held fish. Tried the weed lines and bluegill beds and found some keeper gills and perch. Kept 14 perch from 8 to 11 inches and 10 gills, all 7 and better. BG itty bitts put all of them in the box. Color didn’t matter.
    I was out yesterday evening on the Jamestown end. It was just too rough to take fishing seriously but I did manage to get 2 rods out pulling cranks. Just perch. We should have hid behind an island and tried the gills. Fortunately I did get some study time in on the Helix. Much to be learned but it's all part of the game. Left at dark. Maybe Espyville would have been a better bet then we could have hit Yorky's for ice cream.
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