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Fishing has slowed down the past couple of days on Leatherwood! We are still catching dinner though! I am glad I have this lake as an option since Beaver Lake is now the Dead Sea! Leatherwood is a good lake but it's small and it seems to go through spurts of good fishing than bad fishing.
Here is a pick of a few of todays fish. The one on the left was 15 1/2" the one in the middle (green carp) was 22" and the one on the right was 14 1/2".
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Nice ones JT. Glad to hear your still getting a few! ;)
Nice fish,hey J.T. explain BAD fishing for me
When people pay to catch fish and we don't catch enough fish to fit my standards!Quote:
Originally Posted by buflew
It happens especially this year! It has definitely been one to forget!
Nice catch! Specks down south seems to grow bigger than the specks up here in Michigan. That fish you call a Green Carp is actually a Largemouth Bass.
Green Carp? whoda thunk it!
I didn't mean to offend you! It was fun to catch! And I cut it up for them , the meat was as white as paper.Quote:
Originally Posted by silverbasskilla
"Green Carp" is a nick-name we have around here for Black Bass when we catch them while crappie fishing. There are days though when we're real glad to have them show up! Right JT?Quote:
Originally Posted by silverbasskilla
Do people actually fish for them?? If so there might be some way to commercialize it and make a few dollars.
Amen to that!Quote:
Originally Posted by Jerry Blake
JT,
With the color Beaver matching a southern dirt road for the past month did you ever catch any spawning crappie this spring? The spawn is over right? Also, have you ever spider rigged on Beaver before?
The spawn has not started yet. I have caught a few small males in Hickory Creek and points south into the river in the flooded junk. I only caught one female and she was full of eggs. They were all bleach white and very thin.Quote:
Originally Posted by brent
I went to one of my deep holes the other day and graphed a ton of crappie in 54 feet of water down 40 feet. I don't think most of the crappie have even made that move to the bank. The water temp down there is probably still pretty cool without much sunlight penetrating that deep. They may still think it's winter and for that matter still night!!!
I have not spider rigged but several do on the upstream end of the lake.
at least some one is doin good
If you spend a little bit of time on Beaver right now you can still find some fish. I went out on Thurs and caught 23 crappie and 5 LM. Two of the crappie were 14" and another 4 were 12". One of the females had already spawned out and the others were trying. I was fishing some pockets that had a surface temp of 68 degrees. The fish I caught were in 8' of water and were about 1' deep in the brush. I also saw a couple wall hanger GAR. There were a few crusing the pockets that were every bit of 5' long. I sure wish I had my bowfishing rig in the boat with me. I will surely carry it along in the future.
Surely you knew he was saying that 'tongue-in-cheek'!?Quote:
Originally Posted by silverbasskilla
You must be fishing up the river. I will try the rivers and Hickory on Wednesday.Quote:
Originally Posted by grits and gravy
Do ya think green carp cud rayz enuff curyosotee fur startin a club or purhaps a tourneymint....sinserrly Ray Scott Jr
That might just work!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Bullsprig
Hey JT, you didn't offend me! They have no commercial value at all up here in Michigan. They taste horrible from what I heard! I catch 2-3 of them every time I go out!