Thread: So.....

Just spent a week on Fish Trap with 120 other family members. Strange fishing week. Decent catches of bass and pike, but the big crappies we were after were rare early in the week and disappeared completely after the cold front passed mid-week to be replaced by dinkos none of which even made 8". We then never saw another crappie bigger than that for the rest of the week, although we proceeded to catch dozens of the smaller fish, which weren't there before the cold front passed. Sorta wierd how the sizes just switched around so completely.



4 from Wednesday (our only 4 crappies from Wednesday, in fact; this post is only for the three licenses in our immediate family. Most of the rest of the boats in the clan did worse than we did for crappies anyway... We have never taken so many truly dink crappies off this lake in the dozen of years we have been going there. We put the dinkos back so our harvest was truly curtailed this year.

We had a bit of trouble with a battery that would not hold its charge very well; curtailing our use of the electric which is what I use to manage drifts, and my sister had to wait until Monday to call into St Paul to straighten out a mess some ignorant clerk made of her initial attempt to get a license on Saturday evening. There were a few glitches in the weeks pattern.

We also took a lot of sunnies, one hybrid went 9", and some relatively nice sized rock bass, several largemouths to about 3 pounds, and a couple of pike. None of our people got skunked on any of my outings; so at least we can say we all caught some fish every outing.