Thread: Pymatuning

Went back up last Friday to do some gillin only. Had a great time. Caught and released over 100 gills. Most were over 7" with a few close to 9. Kept 30 that were 8" for my neighbor as he has family coming in from out of town and wants to have a fishfry for them. I used a double loop rig with 1/64 oz heads with BG's new itty bitty shad bodies. They loved them. Also threw a beetle spin in black too. Looking forward to getting my grand daughter out this week and hope the gills are still there. Would be a great first day season opener for her.

I fished this past weekend on the north side of the causeway near Padanararam in 11 to 13 ft. and caught a nice mix of walleyes and perch and crappies . The walleyes ranged from 16 to 23 and the crappies were slabs. They were in the 12 to 13 size. I caught all of them on a floating jig tipped with half nightcrawler, bouncing it of the bottom

Fished the south end yesterday dodging the rain. Lake was flat with hardly any wind. Eyes didn't want anything I presented to them. The crappies that I fished for were stacked up on a sunken bar. The little ones were on top and the slightly larger ones were suspended off the sides. Caught fish from 12-18 feet down. Not one was larger than 10 inches.

The smaller fish were a nasty yellow color. The fish that came from the deeper water were the normal color.

I fished the southend on Saturday. Went out basically for the bluegill bite but got into a lot of small crappies too in the deeper water. Had a blast with the gills tho. C&R over 70. Most were 7" or better. They hit jigs and waxies under a bobber and a beetle spin cast and retrieved with a slow steady retrieve. Have to admit I got the biggest ones on the beetle spin too. just outside a weedline in 5 ft was best. Kept a dozen over 8 and 5 crappies that were barely 10".

The wife and I fished up at the stumps on Sat and Sun, we caught some real nice walleyes and small bluegills and catfish. There were alot of boats trolling around us and they all were catching eyes, why would the walleyes be there now in 5 to 7 ft. . We fished till dark on Saturday and there was a hell of hatch of some kind of bug that looked like a mosquito, but was alittle bigger and it didn't bite. We had a cloud of them over the boat, would they be feeding on them, or feed on the other things that would eat them

Mayflies maybe? Certain lakes the eyes an bass gorge on em when theyre hatching

Sounds like a crane fly from how you described what you were seeing. Did you see any fish working the water surface taking those bugs

There was some coming up, but not a lot . I did see a bunch of carp floating near the surface with their mouths open, on top of the water. The water was coated with the old casings.They were not mayflies, they were smaller than them