Thread: Caught a few last week..................

Deer season in but no time to hunt, fishes is biting. Been busy drowning some minners, fished 4 days out of 6 last week. Went alone twice, with Kenny on turkey day and my grandson Friday. Did not count the fish, I’m catching or I ain’t. At least a hundred for the four days though. We caught a wide variety, one day my first six were six different kind of fish. Crappie, Yellow perch, greenies, pickeral, catfish and some of those weird looking warmouth bass, minner thieves. Fought the wind three days of the four but caught the most drifting with it, trolling motor on low to keep the boat pointed into it but let the wind blow me backwards. I got a drift sock but hate to mess with it, had a big one get tangled in it once and lost the fish over it. Had some real nice eating size kitties, 15 to 19 inches. Caught a few fat greenies to 20 inches, pickerels to over 20, some nice crappie to about 13 inches and all the YP were keepers, got one length citation on Friday. They are plentiful here but not fat. The keeper crappie, YP and catfishes were headed for the hot grease and all the rest were released. Might have kept 25 over the four days. Water temp was 48-51, most were caught in 18-22 feet of water, dragging minners on Kentucky rigs. Friday the YP were spitting up baby bluegill in the livewell. Picked a few greenies up on deep running crankbaits and only reason I’m throwing them is the chance to get a huge one this time of year here. You can say what you want but I do like a ten pounder pulling my line and I have caught two 5 pound pickerel in the cold weather here too. One cold January day I had a greenie over 10, a 6+, several 4’s, 3’s and 2’s, one of those days they write about. Threw them all back. Only picture is from Friday with my grandson, he caught the most that day and he liked the 17 inch greenie he’s holding. He’s like me, likes to feel a tug, yes even trash fish. A bent rod is much better than a straight one any time. Headed out again tomorrow and try them some more. Good luck if you get to go.