Mosquito lake bite is starting.

Decided to give Shenango a break this week and head across the line to Ohio and fish Mosquito lake. Saturday I tried a few of my tried and true spots for this time of year. Not there yet so I headed for the shallow brush. Not there yet either. Hit the shallow weeds, bingo. Put a couple nice crappies and a walleye in the box.
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Went back Monday with my buddy Shawn and put a bunch of good size crappies and cats in the box.
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Rain was predicted today for after one so me and Tim went early. We caught some huge crappies and more perch than I’ve ever caught there in my 45 years of fishing this lake. Tim even got a two pound crappie today. Rain chased us off the lake around 1:30 with a total of 41 keeper crappies gills and perch.
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Very Nice Chaunc! Thanks for sharing

Great job Chaunc, nice bright hat, can see it a mile away for sure. Nice kitties too.

Love this pic and fish and just all of it....
https://www.crappie.com/crappie/atta...e3119a00bd-jpg

Very nice. Good sized walleye.

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Love this pic and fish and just all of it....
https://www.crappie.com/crappie/atta...e3119a00bd-jpg

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That’s my brother in law Tim “ Brushpile” Odem. Been fishin together for over forty years. Need to get him a hat and hoody.

Great pic's.

Thx for the report. Awesome pics buddy. Congrats on those fish and the strategy that led you to them. :highfive

Nice size and mixed bag you got

Just letting you know that the spawn is on here. Lots of good fish being caught shallow. Me and Shawn put thirty two crappies and 25 gills in the box today. Crappies on BG baby shads and the gills on hand tied hair jigs and waxworm.

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Just letting you know that the spawn is on here. Lots of good fish being caught shallow. Me and Shawn put thirty two crappies and 25 gills in the box today. Crappies on BG baby shads and the gills on hand tied hair jigs and waxworm.

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They’re still biting good on the north end of the lake, if you’re looking for crappies. Me and a buddy put 34 in the box this morning.

We fished the north end this a.m. approximately 5 boats and calm to a slight breeze from the east/northeast. Caught 40 crappie to find 6 keepers. Long lined trolling produced 50% of the fish all sub legal. Spoke with a guy that fished south side and had approximately 15 legal fish and a few walleye by trolling. Thinking about Pymatuning next week depending on wind and weather. We prefer wild and rain. Gary U

So happy the spawn is over.
The crappie are moving to the mid-lake humps and congregating. Friday evening after work we pulled 64 crappie. Saturday morning we were on the lake by 6:00AM and put 122 in the boat not including the perch and gills and other fish. Will only be getting better from here through early September when the catch rate starts dropping again. We fish West Branch exclusively.
I love the hot mid-summer crappie fishing. If you know where to look, it's the best fishing time of the year.

Looking through my pics I see we had 53 the weekend before, 26 the week before that. 31 the week before that. We'll be ramping up the numbers to over 200 a day during the dog days in August before tapering down again after the first week of September as the water cools.
We fish exclusively slip bobber and drop shot rigs.

Took my friend and his grandson out today. Had a great time. Kept 17 crappies and 3 gills. Caught well over 70 fish.