Thread: Shenango

Fished from my boat yesterday. Water is really high and pretty muddy almost everywhere I fished. I did manage to find some but most were small. I caught close to twenty crappies and perch. Kept these three and had them for lunch today.

Great Before and After photo Smitty!!! Sometimes its nice to catch just a few for a great snack lunch.

Originally Posted by chaunc

Fished from my boat yesterday. Water is really high and pretty muddy almost everywhere I fished. I did manage to find some but most were small. I caught close to twenty crappies and perch. Kept these three and had them for lunch today.

Checked on north end of the lake Friday . Water was up and a number of boats out both for walleye and crappie . After talking to quite a few people , reports were poor . Almost no crappie caught . Only a few eyes taken with an occasional cat thrown in . Water temp 46 degrees . Lots of fish taken a week or so ago before the snow and colder weather shut everything down .

Gave it a go today. Searched high and low for them. Put in at Mahaney, ran up to Parkers area, back down to swim beach, thru the tressel to campground area, then took the ride up to Golden run before I finally found some keepers. Nothing in shallows yet. Got them just off the channel in 14 ft, long lining jigs and nibbles. 14 in the box. Nothing over 11". Gave them to my brother Dan.

What was the water temp? Do you think that the spawn might end up being early with the temps that are predicting for the next few weeks?

Originally Posted by S10CHEVY

What was the water temp? Do you think that the spawn might end up being early with the temps that are predicting for the next few weeks?

It was 57 this morning at the Orangeville end. I think the spawn will be later. Remember it's only the middle of April no matter what the temp is. The females are still making eggs. You know it's still early the males aren't even heading towards the shallows yet. The bites that I'm getting are very light just like at ice out right near the bottom. A little movement of the bobber is all they are doing. The only fish I'm catching are coming from the deeper water. I drifted the Orangeville end twice this week and the only thing I've caught were cats. Running across deep water I'm not marking hardly any fish suspended. And in shallow water I'm not marking any fish. I may be wrong but I it's just a guess.


This high pressure isn't helping much either. The lake looks like a scum pond. A lot of floating large trees and logs around. We need some wind to clear the lake up. The water is very murky right now and what fish that are biting aren't chasing baits.

I fished Pymie Sunday and the conditions are the same there. Only crappies I could catch were smack belly to the bottom in 15-20 fow.

Fished this morning for a couple of hours and caught 1 female and the eggs weren't full developed yet. Also caught a cat around 8#.

Fished shallow flats drifting this morning in 5-7 fow. Caught over 40 but none were bigger than 10 inches. All were males I think. None of them had any rub marks on the tail area due to fanning nest and none had eggs.

I had a feeling that I was drifting through some large schools of fish. I would drift through an area and get a few fish and a few bites than nothing for a 100 yards. Than the bites would start again.

If you go this weekend be very careful of submerged logs they are popping up everywhere.