Hit up Oshay up north today with a friend. Did quite well, 7 wipers from 13-18", 4 smallies- one 17", one 13.5" (not pictured) and a couple smaller. Also a 21" channel and a "rough fish" of some type(see pic please let me know if you know what it is). All fish were caught on homemade cranks/balsa shiners and my friend was using manns baby 1 minus (yep, channel cat on subsurface in 2-3' of water in march!), bandit 100, and norman fat boy. Cranking "full speed" in....March?!?!? Color didn't matter from foil to craw color, they hit everything. Even saw a couple crayfish.....in March?!? All fish except the large smallie were caught in about 2-3' feet of water in current. Bigger smallie was caught in about 5-6' of water out in middle in the laminar flow. Shown are the 3 biggest wipers, 17-18" (bumper sticker is 16" even).
This year is about 2, if not 3 weeks ahead of schedule. Go get em fellers, nows the time!
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It is better than I thought it would be. The storm that blew through last night apparently went thru pretty quick and didn't drop as much rain as I would have guessed. I wouldn't even consider it chocolate milk.
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Fish was pretty thick. A couple of the smallies had guts. Probably eggs but maybe they are snacking on some early season crays. Mr friend had great luck with the bandit 100 in cray. Snapped a pic of a cray, couldn't believe it. I don't think I usually start seeing them until mid may (maybe later, can't remember). Didn't take thermometer but I waded for a bit in tevas, the water wasn't bad.
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UGH! When am I going to get into some of these guys...They dont seem to favor my usual haunts . Nice fish!
Storm didn't even seem to phase the scioto it blew threw so fast, water is mildly stained but not bad at all. That said I got the for the hour or so I hit it. Stopped by Greenlawn earlier as I was out and about and saw guys catch a few wipers, going to be there more often, water looked better there then it did further north on the scioto.
Nice! The "rough fish" looks like a redhorse. I'd guess a golden redhorse.
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It does look like a Golden however you can't really get a good look at the bottom of it's lip to know for sure. For those that are interested there's actually 3 common species of Redhorse Suckers in the Middle Scioto, Golden Redhorse (most common), Black Redhorse (much less common - excellent water quality indicator) and the ultra-cool, ultra-rare River Redhorse (another excellent water quality indicator, even moreso then the Black) - You catch (snag) one of those get a picture,then quickly release it, they are amazing fish.
I wouldn't say they were exactly "stacked up" as we fished for about 3-4 hours to get those 13 fish, but all fish with the exception of the smallie were caught in "riffles" maybe 3 feet deep max. My friend who told me to go check it out had been catching crappie and largemouth this past week. Go figure. Here's another pic of the mystery fish. Somehow I managed to lose that lure. I don't know what happened to it, just know that after I took the hook out and released the fish, I went to cast and my line had broke and lure was no where to be seen. Hrummmphh...that one has been a goodie over the years. It got me a mirror carp a couple years ago and now this.
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It does look like a Golden however you can't really get a good look at the bottom of it's lip to know for sure.
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This fish put up a great fight(it actually charged upstream towards the boat and I thought I lost it, then when I got tension back on my line it put up a great fight), thought I had a nice smallie(the big smallie on the other hand didn't put up much of a fight).
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I THINK that is a Black Redhorse, as I recall the front part of the lower lip (confusing I know) should be curved on a golden, and straight on a Black, and that one looks straight to me.
That looks right aj hard to tell there are so many carp and suckers that look alike and we cant catch fish sitting in front of a screen. It is a fish for sure.
Also a 21" channel and a "rough fish" of some type(see pic please let me know if you know what it is). All fish were caught on homemade cranks/balsa shiners and my friend was using manns baby 1 minus (yep, channel cat on subsurface in 2-3' of water in march!), bandit 100, and norman fat boy. Cranking "full speed" in....March?!?!? Color didn't matter from foil to craw color, they hit everything. Even saw a couple crayfish.....in March?!?
This year is about 2, if not 3 weeks ahead of schedule. Go get em fellers, nows the time!
Took the words out of my mouth, a buddy of mine was catching saugeye ripping X-raps last week, and I got a fat channel on a crank a few days ago, we should still be deadsticking!
That looks right aj hard to tell there are so many carp and suckers that look alike and we cant catch fish sitting in front of a screen. It is a fish for sure.
I worked in the fisheries field for a few years and got to know my fishes pretty well , before that I called them all "carp" or "suckers" lol.
I grabbed three tackle boxes randomly and driving there I noticed I had no suspending jerkbaits. Was kind of concerned, but the fish didn't care too much. I was cranking about the speed I normally do. The wipers were slamming them. I'm surprised no eyes were caught. 1st time out this year was a good one.
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You forgot silver redhorse bro, noob move...noob move.
Also, I'm not sure if River Redhorse have been found in that area in recent years...maybe a long time ago. Nothing I've found has said they're there. Definately below Greenlawn, not sure bout below Oshay though.
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NINJA EDIT!
It does look like a Golden however you can't really get a good look at the bottom of it's lip to know for sure. For those that are interested there's actually 3 common species of Redhorse Suckers in the Middle Scioto, Golden Redhorse (most common), Black Redhorse (much less common - excellent water quality indicator) and the ultra-cool, ultra-rare River Redhorse (another excellent water quality indicator, even moreso then the Black) - You catch (snag) one of those get a picture,then quickly release it, they are amazing fish.
Just found something saying they're in the Olentangy Between OSU and Delaware. Wish OEPA or ODNR would publish their appendices for surveys in the middle sci!
Oshay 3/31....wipers!
Oshay 3/31....wipers!
. Nice fish!
for the hour or so I hit it. Stopped by Greenlawn earlier as I was out and about and saw guys catch a few wipers, going to be there more often, water looked better there then it did further north on the scioto.
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