No skunk today . LOL !

Fished my local reservoir again today .
A beautiful day , upper 70’s .
Got on the water around noon , fished to around 4:30 .
Spent a little time running around checking out drop offs , creek channels , and flats using my old Eagle fish finder . I heard a total of five beeps , two of those were on a underwater tree .
Caught one bluegill on a hand tied jig , and a dinky little bass on a slider grub .
That’s it .
My fishing buddy caught three small bass , one was about 3/4 lb and gave him a fun fight on his UL .
Talked to one of the other fishermen out there . He said the fishing was slow , but he’d caught one shellcracker about the size of his hand . I asked him what he did with the shellcracker and he said it was supper . :( .
I told him that one shellcracker could helped replenished the fish population next spring, but now won’t get a chance .
He said he’d never thought about it that way .
After 20+ years of fishing this reservoir, I’ve never seen it this bad and folks are still taking everything they catch home .
I’m not against taking home a meal sometimes, but after a point , the depletion has to stop .

That is a nice sized gill. Certainly beats getting skunked

Nice fish and pics. Still looks like summer down that way!

Nice fish, Gill. Looked like a nice place to fish.
Bob

Thanks guys , this will possible be the end of the 70’s after the front comes in Thursday.
I was going to try and go again tomorrow, but I’m beat . Got my Covid booster yesterday and feeling a little tired .
I did get to fish my two new rods today. A 2022 6’ St Croix Panfish , and a 5’6” Fenwick Eagle 2 . I actually enjoyed the Fenwick over the newly designed St Croix . Not too fond of the new grip . Hopefully it’ll grow on me .

Nice fish.

Regards


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It does look like summer in your photo. Enjoyed the pics. Quick story. It has been awhile but we use to have older guys that showed up with gunny sacks and kept EVERYTHING and I mean everything they caught. Fortunately they were rather lazy and didn’t go very far up the stream. It took a couple of years for some of those areas to recover. I asked one guy how many he thought he had in the sack. He said “oh, about 25”. I said 25 fish? No he saiD 25 kilos!:banghead True story.
Bob

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It does look like summer in your photo. Enjoyed the pics. Quick story. It has been awhile but we use to have older guys that showed up with gunny sacks and kept EVERYTHING and I mean everything they caught. Fortunately they were rather lazy and didn’t go very far up the stream. It took a couple of years for some of those areas to recover. I asked one guy how many he thought he had in the sack. He said “oh, about 25”. I said 25 fish? No he saiD 25 kilos!:banghead True story.
Bob

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It’s sad . When the guy yesterday told me he hadn’t thought that , that one fish he kept that day could have helped the recovery of the fish population , I didn’t realized that a lot of them don’t understand how a resource of this size can be wiped out in a short period of time .
He had told me one of the other guys told him he saw lots of fish on his electronics on the bottom of the lake but they wouldn’t bite .
I think he was looking at moss .
I didn’t find any on my Eagle but I did see a lot of moss .

Thanks for sharing...

One is better than none! And you were fishing, which is better than <insert your word here>

Glad you got out and found a couple for your trouble. I also have a Fenwick like yours and like it a lot. It handles a surprise fish well too.

Fenwick makes some great rods

How large is this body of water that your fishing? Some waters can handle constant harvesting but it seems it may be time to bring creel limits and slot limits into conversation with the wildlife management in your area.

On an unrelated topic. Are you the same Gillchaser from Tinboats??

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How large is this body of water that your fishing? Some waters can handle constant harvesting but it seems it may be time to bring creel limits and slot limits into conversation with the wildlife management in your area.

On an unrelated topic. Are you the same Gillchaser from Tinboats??

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First , no I’m not on Tinboats ,
The lake is approximately 240 acres . Not a small pond , but definitely not a big lake .
On days where there’s four or five or more boats on it , it seems even smaller .
I’ve spent many a weekday on it years ago where I was the only boat on the lake , the last few times I’ve been there , theres been five or six boats on it . And this is during the week . On weekends I’ve driven by the parking lot and it’s been nearly full .

Is this a different lake from back when you used to catch some really good ones. And invited us to come down and fish with you. I would like to return the favor. You're more than welcome to come up and fish with me or I'll come down and take a look around that lake and see if we can find if they're just hiding. Maybe they are.

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240 acres is a good sized fishing lake, but something that size need serious management to keep a healthy fish population. I hate to hear that it is being fished so carelessly. I am all for a well earned fish supper, but it would be a shame to see a good body of water die from over harvesting.

It is funny you are not the same guy. The name there is actually Gillhunter, I was mistaken, but my curiosity was piqued when you both had Alumacraft boats and lived in GA. I just thought I would ask.