Went back up to Ontario and got 21 crappie and 31 gills
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Went back up to Ontario and got 21 crappie and 31 gills
SWEET!!!! I got out for a couple hours yesterday and got a nice mess of crappies, but think I'm going to start keeping gills now too -they were all around the boat looking at me - means it's time to catch-n-fillet.
I think i could of filled the boat with gills but i was after the crappie.
Nice catch and good pictures! The gills eat just find got alot of them ice fishing at Silver Lake this past winter. Still not good fishng down here got hit by a flash flood storm last night.
1 The gills
Gonna be trolling for browns on Ontario this weekend. Last check they were still shallow.
A friend of a friend was out there sat. while we were catching crappie and gills and he was fishing a derby and catching browns in 7 ft. of water on spoons
We were fishing 8-20 FOW, most fish were early (before 9AM) in 8-11 FOW.
The water was gin-clear, so we went with black/silver jr thundersticks.
A couple of the browns we got:
My son:
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My stepson:
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Me:
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N[ce looking browns did you get alot of them
Saturday, we landed 5 of 6, one was Atlantic that we released because it was too small, and we had one come unbuttoned right at the back of the boat.
Sunday we only boated 1 of 4. Not sure what was going on with that, we'd fight them all the way from 300 feet out, and when they would get just outside of net range, they come unhooked. Strange! One of the fish that came off on Sunday was a king that would be in the 25 lb range. Took my son-in-law 15 minutes to fight it to the back of the boat, only for it to get off :(
We cooked up one of them on the fire at the camp site - butter, salt, pepper, and old bay wrapped in a couple layers of foil and tossed right on the coals.
Turned out delicious! A couple will go on the smoker too :)
Nice! Take this for what its worth..but on the misses, We have found that a single hook is actually better then a Trebble (on spoons anyway)
we were pulling stickbaits this past weekend, but I've got a ton of spoons too. I know I've got a couple locos that have singles on them, maybe I'll set a couple more spoons up that way. Can't hurt to try something else to get better hooksets.
Thanks for the tip.
I know the downrigger guys like stiff releases so they can really load up the rods - they want to just about rip the fish's face off on the release to get a good hookset.
You still need to set the hook.. look at it this way.. if your 5-10 miles out and fishing 90 feet down... the release is not going to set the hook.. Granted the movement ove the boat will help but I still give it a good yank to to be sure its in.
Nice.:)
Yeah, a charter captain we went out with last year taught us about setting the hook - even off the riggers. Basically you hit the fish hard 4 or 5 times like your ticked off at it, THEN you start fighting the fish.Quote:
Originally Posted by REDBOAT
The other thing I found out on a board I belong to (with lots of charter guys), is that when you get them close to the boat, you need to keep the rod low, and work the fish to the net slowly because when the line is that short, there's no stretch and a good jump/run/headshake can throw the lure. If you work it to the net slowly so that there is some give left to the rod to make up for the lack of stretch, you cut down on chances of losing the fish.