limeyangler

i agree with Cliff to a degree, it does not matter who is in office...its all the same. I vote because of some misguided feeling that it makes a difference and i want to feel like i have some control left....reality is i fear that we dont. I just watched the British election, its all a sham. The Conservative guy won kinda...its a coalition with the Lib Dems. This is meant to be a historical ....nay...momemtous, landmark, watershed of an occassion in Britain.......Bull.......same old same old. Seems as long as we can all afford the latest Blueberry/ Ipad/ and then Twitter about it alls good. Jeeze...i must be getting old.....lol

Awesome stuff JB, lol.....i missed the 'last year bit and got a bit confused too. Whats for supper then?

Good stuff Ben, Really nice bass, hoping to get up there next week...

Awesome report Dan.....looks like fun. Pretty cool the whole tackle box was still there I left the struts for my tonneau cover on the floor of the carwash recently....went back 6hrs later...still there too

Thanks for all the replies guys, It certainly was satisfying since i put a lot of time in trying to find them in that lake for since the last spawn......it was also very informative as i now know last year was no fluke, let the water hit 60 degrees and game on. I just need to work out wher they all go in the winter and after the spawn, they are definitely in there, just never find any concentrations like that after the spawn until the next spawn...weird and very frustrating. LOL...i'm gonna use that saying about the float not floating, they are called floats in England but ive got used to saying 'bobber' now....i also noticed how many times i said 'eh' in that clip...definitely re-discovering my Canadian heritage. LOL.....Roy i was just teasing Lew...he's actually 46, he just wasn't biting...unlike the crappie yesterday. Yup, micro jigs worked good...as did gulp, but i have to say the minnows were snapped up before the bobber even had the chance to sit upright. They certainly are fun.....and the average size in this lake is ridicoulous...they are all around 12 inches to 14 inches it seems.

Hi all, well if you were following my exploits over the winter and after ice out you'd know I put in a lot of time and effort trying to locate the crappie on a lake I fish regularly. Well, not that I'm usually a quitter....but I threw in the towel last month knowing that when the water warmed up a bit, they would be fairly easy to locate....and true to form there they were. The water has warmed up remarkably fast here after a long spell of relatively cold water temps, within a week the temps on the lakes around here have gone up at least 10 degrees F. It was also Lew's birthday, so a day of good fishing could not have been timed better, especially since there were gonna be guests at his house for a big fish fry. Anyway, they were in very shallow, obviously spawn areas, but whilst cleaning the fish it was clear the spawn was definitely pretty much done. Slip bobber set at 1 or 2 FOW was the most productive. we did use beetlespins to locate them at first, but after that ...bobbers all the way. We ran out of minnows pretty quick, but small tubes, gulp minnows and twister tails all worked both on the bobber and jigged. We caught incidental walleye and pike too. Al got the best walleye at 18" and I got a nice 37" Pike. A much larger pike came up under a crappie I was reeling in and another about the size I landed snapped me off after a long battle, only got one on film as the rain somewhat stopped filming for long periods yesterday. We also threw some topwater poppers for 10 minutes, I got a 17" smb first cast, but the camera card was full when i went to film...lol...deleting stuff to make room for more is difficult...what to keep...what to throw away?...time to get another 32GB micro sd card. Anyway, we kept 24 or so large crappie...threw lots back, caught lots of different species, got wet, laughed and joked as per usual, saw a small bird hitchhiking on an eagles back...way cool...and then had a bunch of folks over at Lew's for a fishfry and birthday cake...awesome day out. Here's the pics and vids........ CRAPPIE DAY ON THE WATER...terrible pun i know <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value=" name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object> WAS RAINING LOTS...BUT WHO CARES WHEN THE FISHING IS GOOD! GOT SOME NICE PIKE TOO PERFECT STRINGER FOR A BIRTHDAY BASH FISH FRY TOOK AN HOUR AND A HALF TO CLEAN 'EM ALL...BUT NONE WASTED AND MUCH APPRECIATED BY ALL.

Awesome trout Cudzy, love the video. You are not allowed to be inspired by me anymore...you catch way bigger trout than i ever do!

Very well put together letter Ron. I just hope they listen. Like you i also spend 100 days a year fishing....ugh...probably more...ugh...cough..definitely more...lol, you are an inspiration.

LOLOL...thats what i was thinking too john. Anyhoo, sounds like a great days fishing....CONGRATS ON YOUR FIRST WALLEYES...not a bad size either from the pics!

Great fish Anders, too funny 'bout you and your dad cursin each other's whereabouts. definitely nice walters. look forward to some more reports cheers Simon.

Yup....had some big ones off the bottom too before. Thats exactly why i like straight jigging, love X-Box fishing...lol. Its like ice fishing in summer!

Yup....waters here have jumped 10 degrees in just a week too, time to start crappie hunting again!

Hi all, went to a local shore mark for a 2 hour evening session....could not get the walleye past this pike though. I have had this happen before but it was pretty cool to catch in on film...so close up too...right below me off the rock i was standing on. PIKE ATTACK! <object width="640" height="385"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIo586SFiYk&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param'>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIo586SFiYk&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WIo586SFiYk&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="640" height="385"></embed></object>

Thanks KF, Yup...the camera holding thing has come up before......no fancy tricks....just manipulation of my digits despite their ever decreasing dexterity.....getting old you see.....lol. here's the not so tripod camera style

Thanks Roy, forgot to "autoline break on"

hi all, had a few hours spare yesterday...went jigging for lakers. Not a very big lake, but deep. Surprisingly the water temps were up considerably....66- 68F Most of the trout went to a plain old jig and minnow in 30' - 35'FOW And once i found some walleye they wer between 50' and 60' FOW. Seems like a theme so far this year both open water and on the ice as far as walleye go.....GO DEEP! here's some video of yesterday afternoon <object width="480" height="385"><param name="movie" value=" name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src=" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="480" height="385"></embed></object>

you kinda lost me at the end there Disco...but i had another sip of coffee and understand completely now....lol.

Absolutely agree with this advice, i gave up downrigging for trout and have a big heavy anchor with 100' of line attached. I watch the fishfinder very carefully...when i see bait fish i anchor up and straight jig. obviously in a canoe an anchor may be a problem...but if its not too windy try dropping the lure by the transducer...you can watch the jig and see the trout hit...same as ice fishing...great fun. This also allows you to see which lures/bait they are not going for/going for.

Fantastic Lew...the place looks very nice. Enjoy.

wow.....great fish right there. the water looks like glass....lol....the first and only time i went out from Erieau the conditions were like that too...my sandals were melting it was so hot.

Its not just you....i feel like i did when i was 8 years old on xmas eve.....its fantastic!

DITTO

just looks like a muskrat or something and the hair from its face has worn away in the water...like what happens to any other creature thats been floating around the lake for a week or two.

Great stuff MJL...10/10 for helping out, the kids obviously had a blast! Great post...the pics say it all really...smiles everywhere.

Thanks Disco, to be honest though i think i gained more knowledge than i used, as the finding of the walleye that day was serendipitous to say the least. its become a bit of a theme all year, GO DEEP...even whilst ice fishing we were getting them at 50'FOW. Infact yesterday i got a couple on another lake at 55'FOW. Obviously if the lake is only ever 30' deep that wont happen, but it seems that if a lake gets deep, you can find walleye there...and nice ones.