BM Saturday (late report)

Attachment 122647Had grandkids this weekend and decided to take the granddaughter for half a day. Didn't start out good for me. Started the motor and didn't realize the prop was sitting on the bottom, put it in reverse and broke something. Don't know what is broke, but won't go into either forward or reverse. Decided not to disappoint the gal with me, decided to do trolling motor only. Took 45 minutes to get where I'd planned to start. Found tons of all species in shallow water. Wound up with 23 crappie (males were dark and aggressive), 32 perch that hit like freight trains, 1 large pickerel, 3 nice bass (two were right at 2.5 lbs, and the third was 8 lbs, 5 oz.). Quite a fight on 4 lb. test, she made 3 jumps like a tarpon.

Had to work a while today, but I'm going to try it again tomorrow.

Don't know what has happened, but can't post pictures all of a sudden. Anybody else have the same problem?

Mike

That bass was a toad. Nice assortment of fish. Any size on the yellow perch or crappie?

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Originally Posted by Kitt

That bass was a toad. Nice assortment of fish. Any size on the yellow perch or crappie?

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The ring perch weren't big, the crappie I caught were typical BM size. Only things big all day were the biggest bass and the pickerel. Mike

Always nice to be on numbers. Especially with good company in the boat with ya. Thanks for the response.

That smile says it all! Great pic. Hope its something simple to fix on motor!
BTW, I tried my DI again , when I took my son out, had spilt screen ,1/2 regular 2d and 1/2 DI -for @2 hrs. I liked the regular sonar better, guess I just am used to reading it ..
I found some brush with SI and when I got over it, I switched to Sonar/DI screen, on 2d sonar I could tell it was row of sunken trees, but Di was hard to make anything out.. ( But I do plan to try it out some more, But its kinda hard because I want to fish when over the brush, not look at screen on DF:crazy:

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Originally Posted by HeyCharlie

That smile says it all! Great pic. Hope its something simple to fix on motor!
BTW, I tried my DI again , when I took my son out, had spilt screen ,1/2 regular 2d and 1/2 DI -for @2 hrs. I liked the regular sonar better, guess I just am used to reading it ..
I found some brush with SI and when I got over it, I switched to Sonar/DI screen, on 2d sonar I could tell it was row of sunken trees, but Di was hard to make anything out.. ( But I do plan to try it out some more, But its kinda hard because I want to fish when over the brush, not look at screen on DF:crazy:

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Charlie, Sometimes I interpret what is on the screen better with DI and other times it is 2D that shows what's there better. That's why I usually split the screen. Mike

I have no problem finding brush with my DI. Perhaps you don't have something set right. I take it you have a HB and I know nothing about the new ones.

Great report Mike. Thats the reason I went to B/m sunday. I knew I could find the fish. I should have went to Cahoon. Looks like the children had a good time. See ya on the water !

Jim, That was my first trip to BM in a couple of months. I've been concentrating on trying to learn Cahoon and Meade. Funny, as well as I know BM, after the layoff, it almost felt like a new lake. I was really surprised that all the species were sharing the same places. Caught shellcrackers, bass, pike and crappie in the same small pockets. Mike

How shallow were you fishing?

Thanks for posting.

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How shallow were you fishing?

Thanks for posting.

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I was concentrating on water 3 feet or less in the backs of coves and creeks. Most of the hits were after falling 6" to 1'. Mike

Thanks. I fished there Saturday and only caught 1. I never got into the skinny water.

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Originally Posted by Texas Pete

Attachment 122647Had grandkids this weekend and decided to take the granddaughter for half a day. Didn't start out good for me. Started the motor and didn't realize the prop was sitting on the bottom, put it in reverse and broke something. Don't know what is broke, but won't go into either forward or reverse. Decided not to disappoint the gal with me, decided to do trolling motor only. Took 45 minutes to get where I'd planned to start. Found tons of all species in shallow water. Wound up with 23 crappie (males were dark and aggressive), 32 perch that hit like freight trains, 1 large pickerel, 3 nice bass (two were right at 2.5 lbs, and the third was 8 lbs, 5 oz.). Quite a fight on 4 lb. test, she made 3 jumps like a tarpon.

Had to work a while today, but I'm going to try it again tomorrow.

Don't know what has happened, but can't post pictures all of a sudden. Anybody else have the same problem?

Mike

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I get an exclamation point and a message saying file too big to download or something like that, but I have posted using my phone in the past :scratchhead

BTW gratz on an excellent day on the water....hope the shifting issue is minor

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Originally Posted by papermouth scaler

hope the shifting issue is minor

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Took the Yamaha off for repair. Put the Mercury 9.9 back on for interim.

Mike