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Went to the lake house (Lake Norrell) yesterday evening and could see the the bream (sunfish) were on the beds up shallow. When I see that, I can normal can find some good blue gills deeper bedded up.
Was just find to find out about this moon thing and see how often they are on the beds.
Any input? not a full moon or new moon. Gonna try and keep track of them.
I was always told Bluegill spawn every full moon in the summer. I think that meant the hatch happened every full moon. Old timers told me to throw shallow on full moons. This advice was for bass, pike, and muskey.
The Coward
Hey Doug.
I am rehabbing a property that me and Mrs DP intend to move to. I just discovered Lake Norrell and it is about 10 miles from there. Sure were a lot of lice on it from the landing. How is it for fishing?
DP
Need to fish for Catfish, they love hot weather.
Thanks Slip I was going to hit the lake here on Hamelton in the next few days to search for the breams. Nim is stuck on cats it appears and from the pictures I can't say as I blame him either. Yes they do seem to like the heat better than most fish do. I was thinking of setting a few noodles on Hamelton at dark and bass fishing all night before running them at day break.
Would'nt you if you were catching plenty on a pole? I hauled in 25 in an hour and a half this morning. Culled out a limit and went home ,left them still biting.:biggrinQuote:
Originally Posted by constructskeeter
No problem not catfish.
Hey DP,
Yea you are not far away. Just don't get in a hurry. Norrell is very had to fish. It's a bowl with very little cover, very clear water. Can be busy at times. Other times, like during the week you may only see 3 boats. Even on the weekends, up till noon or so, very few out. Very few crappies.
Give me a yell and I'll so you around. Take about 15 min.
I've sunk cover in Norrell before I moved up here. The crappie I did catch were very large black crappie. Same for bluegill. They are some of the thickest bg's I've ever caught. Try a drop shot with two #6 wire hooks at 1.5 and 3' above the weight, about 1-2" piece of nightcrawler, pitch it out in 12-30' of water and slowly drag it across the bottom. Dragging this next to some of the docks will get you bit too.
If you leave the ramp and go to the right, there is a large cedar sunk out in that cove. We dumped some crappie and bluegill remains on it one evening and went bass fishing a while. Came back and hauled dozens of large channel cat off that tree.
Slipcork , those Cats look anorexic! Better feed those things.
Well, went back to the lake Sat. bream were off the beds. It was hard to even get them to bite a cricket.
I'm trying to get a calendar going to keep track of when the bream are going to be on the beds. Then see if it's the same time at other lakes.
I'm working on that. Some I just feed a hook to.Quote:
Originally Posted by NIMROD
May have to come see what your fish look like.
What you waiting on? I usually catch my limit of Catfish daily under an hour. Went out today about 11.00 am and fished till 12.30 or so . Culled a limit out of 25 again.Quote:
Originally Posted by Slipcork
Nimrod, if I had your money I wouldn't have to work all the time. I could go fishing all the time like you. That's the only thing I have to look forward to about getting old. Maybe retirement.Quote:
Originally Posted by NIMROD
So I can fish all the time like you. So keep up the good work, post some more pictures so we'll know how the fishing is.
I think your right slipcork about the full moon. Me and my son in law fished wapponacca the last full moon and they were in the tree line bedded up.
Fished Hamelton this morning till about 11am with crickets and never found the bream. They weren't shallow, didn't even see any beds and fished as far out as 18-20'. Course I'm forcing myself to fish different places, not so much in hopes of finding them but more in hopes of proving they just ain't there! I am however ready to move to more friendly waters where I know decent #'s of fish exist. Buddy told me today his dad is hitting Gilliam lake for the bream. They caught em last year we will see how good he does this year....doubt I'll drive that far just to bream fish but be interesting to see if he finds em.
Never saw so many Bream fishing before this year on Nimrod Lake.Quote:
Originally Posted by constructskeeter
Well apparently they are doing their thing now on lakes with good numbers of bream, so much water over here yet so little fish, amazing to me. I've yet to try the catfish over here. I guess I could get a 5 gallon bucket of feed and let it sour up to bait a spot out in hopes of catching some cats. We used to kill em on Blue Mtn doing that. Seems all sorts of fish come in to that stuff. We tried it on Gilliam lake a few times but never the same results and that's odd since we do pretty good when setting lines over there.Quote:
Originally Posted by NIMROD
Well this may be just for me to try and keep up with. But was back at lake house last sat and the bream were back on the beds the last Saturday. Looking at the calendar, the moon was two days past a new moon phase.
Last time I saw them, was around June 28th. Moon phase was two days past 1st quarter. Bout 21 to 24 days apart.
Any thoughts?
Always do good 4 days before and a few days after full moon phase. But I do think water temp. has to be considered to.