Thread: Panfishing on Murray

We hit the lake about sunrise this morning and ran up into Bear Creek where we set up to fish for Shellcrackers and Bream. It was surprisingly cool this morning and felt good for a change. By noontime it had warmed up a good bit but not as hot as the last few weeks.
First spot was a no go so we moved and started to pick up a few.


We were catching both Bream and Shellcrackers fishing on the bottom with red worms and night crawlers. We went through a bunch of smaller fish and half a dozen channel cats to get to a decent mess.




We were anchored in about 10 FOW but I caught 2 or 3 decent fish out toward the deeper water so we moved out and anchored in 16 FOW and there we caught he majority of the keepers. especially the shellcrackers. We were surprised to catch them that deep.


Here is a cooler shot. This cooler is pretty deep so it is hard to capture more than a couple swimming at the top. Jeff told me to wait before I took the picture so he could throw out the dead perch floating on top. In retrospect, that would have been the highlight for some of our members.

And I was reminded of the reason I hesitated until now to move to a stick steer boat. When we headed back to the ramp the lake was rolling with white caps and I took a pounding going across, not to mention getting wet, so I need to carry a poncho with me at all times I guess. At least it was warm enough not to be a problem by then.