Another nice Morrison Lake mess

Worked on both Saturday and Sunday so I could go to Morrison today with my neighbor, Jeff. We were on the water at 6:45 and with a light WSW wind it set us up perfectly to drift the length of the lake. I was fishing three rods, one with my go to double rig, one tight lining a hali and the third with a gold hook and slip bobber. Jeff was using a hali/ slip bobber on one rod and a double rig on the other. Red worms and pieces of night crawlers were the bait. We started picking up bluegill right away and after the first drift we had 20 gills and 2 perch on ice. We worked our way back up wind just off the ends of the docks on the north shore and picked up another 10 gills. We decided to try for a few perch and moved to a secret spot in 14 fow and again the fish were eager to bite. Eventually they slowed down and we moved to the south shore to try and finish our bluegill limit. One pass resulted in 6 more keepers and we decided that we had plenty of fish to clean so we loaded the boat on the trailer and headed for home. We were home and cleaning fish by 3:30 with the final tally of 41 bluegills and 27 perch. Most of them are going towards a fish fry in three weeks but I did take out enough perch for dinner. I now sit here in my recliner with a bully full of tomatoes, cucumbers and green beans from the garden and fresh perch fried golden brown. Life is good!

Well that does it! Next camping trip over to Ionia SRA we gonna make the run to Morrison.

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Yankee,

Why bother, Jerry would WIN.

Rumor has it he can even catch truck keys.....

Only after he is in the water though........

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Sorry Jerry, couldn't resist.

Oh, I spoke to my Mom, she knows both Kurt & Craig. How ever have not seen them in many years.

OE


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Morrison has always been an easy lake, lots of bluegill and perch but not a lot of size. If I wasn't trying to get enough fish for the fry I would be on Jordon or Sessions. I really don't like fishing it as much as the other lakes but in Ionia County we don't have much to choose from. I am concerned by the number of dead fish floating on Morrison, most of what I saw were crappie. I'm not sure if that's why we're not catching as many crappie this summer.

Sounds like you were on them again, especially the perch!

One more trip and you'll have enough for the fish fry!

Same place we got them two years ago, then they were just a tad too small. This year they aren't jumbos by any means but they clean up nicely. I would guess they are 8 1/2-10. When the school would come through we would get hit on all 5 rods. Only one fish caught on plastic, all others on worms.

I found em a few years back on Morrison. Was always meaning to go back and see if they had any size to them. That might have been the same day I found a 28 inch walleye floating dead

The lake is not overly deep, could it be from Oxygenation?

Or what ever the scientific term is for "Fish Boil"

My Mom lives in Vestaburg, and a few years ago it was occurring on the lake. Pike and panfish were floating everywhere and it was a smelly mess.

It has something to do with the heat, and vegetation not producing oxygen within the water.

Sorry, not Fish Boil, its "Fish Kill"

https://water.usgs.gov/edu/qa-chemical-fishkills.html





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Morrison was nicer to me , yesturday. 2 large Gills an 8 nice Crappie , lost 4 Crappies at the boat. With the boat traffic an water clarity only a foot I figure I did well.