Side trip at Raystown Lake

Had to travel about 3 hours east for National Guards this weekend. Packed the Lunakia in the car to make a stop at Raystown Lake for some shore fishing. I've never fished this Lake before but would like to fish it during the spawn. It is about an hour from my house so I decided to stop and see if the crappie were in the shallow water by the one boat launch. Didn't catch any crappie but did manage a few bluegill biggest about 8 inches. Talked with another guy on the pier doesn't sound like anyone has been catching them shallow yet. My brother in law is camping there for the next week and a half. I may have to take a day off and try to locate them with the livescope. Attachment 427382

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Very nice!

Nice looking fish. Hope you can get out and find where they’re hiding.
Bob

Hope you find them next trip. Maybe your brother in law can keep you posted on the activity there.

I hope you get to go after them soon in the boat. It sounds like a promising location.

That's a BIG lake. Hope you find them.

Nice.

Regards


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Originally Posted by moonrunner

Hope you find them next trip. Maybe your brother in law can keep you posted on the activity there.

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My mother taught me if you can't say anything nice then don't say anything.

I don't want to talk bad about my in laws, so I'll just say, his target species when fishing is green. :yikes LOL

Told my wife I was taking a day off to go fishing there, she asked when cause if your going I'm taking the day off also. Looks like we will be meeting up with her brother on Wednesday.

The wife and I had a nice day on the lake, despite not a lot of catching. I forgot to take the waxworms out of the fridge when I loaded the cooler for the boat, so we used crappie nibbles until we met up with her brother for lunch on a small island on the lake. I also broke a rod tip on one of the TCBs. I had the TCB's strapped down on the boat in rod socks, I looked in the mirror and saw them flapping. Pulled over and moved them to the reat seat of the truck. When we got to the lake one of the tips was broke. Used the same method of super glue and a sewing needle as Jawjatek to repair it. Eradicator STS repair (crappie.com) Lesson learned about rods in the boat going down the highway. Not real happy about a broken tip but thankful it wasn't one of my JDM rods (they were in the rear seat of the truck).

Ended up catching around a dozen bluegill around 6 to 7.5 inches, hooked a small bass but didn't get it into the boat.

Upate on super glue: it failed today, I noticed tip was spinning on the pin. The pin was still glued very solid in the lower section, but the top just slid off the pin. I cleaned well with acetone, re-glued with Gorilla 5-min epoxy instead of superglue, which myself and others have decided epoxy is better, less brittle and able to flex a bit. We shall see - it is drying now.

I saw your post after I did the superglue glue repair. Depending on how the weather is this weekend I may try to soak the tip in acetone to get it back apart. I have some West marine G-flex epoxy left over from working on the boat that I could use for an epoxy repair. I checked on line last evening on a replacement tip BnM was out of stock, I didn't see a replacement tip listed on the Grizzly jig site for the TCB.

I don't think acetone will soften superglue. Maybe just fish with it until it cracks again, then clean up and use the epoxy. I used the cheap Gorilla 5-minute clear stuff. Best regards, I'm sure you can get a top for the TCB, might have to contact the mfr. The only good US rod I ever broke a tip on was a St Croix trout special, and they gave me one free when I called them.

Acetone works well for removing super glue. I soaked the tip for a couple minutes and was able to work the pieces apart, cleaned up the parts as best I could then mixed up a little bit of G Flex for the repair. Going to let it set till at least tomorrow as cure time on the epoxy is around 24 hrs.

I stand corrected on the acetone. Good to know. Hope the repair holds up well.