Was there today. Couldn't buy a bite. The boy wanted to get out. Cold front with high pressure and north east wind. I didn't think it would be a good day. Ice forming in bays and edges.
They're spawning, just starting! Jacks can be had on lures, bigger females-well, who knows? If anyone is catching, as you observed,they ain't telling anybody! Don't want Anybody "catchin their fish"!! Weather been crap for weeks, could be the better fishermen(?) aren't out in it, waiting on nicer days!(Of course that will be too late for the spawn bite!)
There will be a thousand but 910 of them will be in the wrong places and there at the wrong times.
90% of the fish are in 10% of the water and 10% of the fisherman catch 90% of the fish
Me and buddy got 10 sometime this week, somewhere on the lake, using some lures. at some time during the evening, somewhere between 2 and 7 lbs,! Any questions? It's on!
i just spent about 3 hours from midnight till 3am casting F11's and renoskys at several locations from shore, state park, spillway and walnut run. i had one on and lost it on my 3rd cast. i figured "man this is gonna be a great night" about 3 hours later all i caught was frost bite (i think, my fingers and face are stinging). It was so cold The rods guides kept freezing up. wind gust had to be 30 mph, id cast towards 10 o'clock and my bait would land at 3 o'clock.. but i will be back out tomorrow after work. too windy to even think about a boat tonight and tomorrow is suppose to be the same.
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i just spent about 3 hours from midnight till 3am casting F11's and renoskys at several locations from shore, state park, spillway and walnut run. i had one on and lost it on my 3rd cast. i figured "man this is gonna be a great night" about 3 hours later all i caught was frost bite (i think, my fingers and face are stinging). It was so cold The rods guides kept freezing up. wind gust had to be 30 mph, id cast towards 10 o'clock and my bait would land at 3 o'clock.. but i will be back out tomorrow after work. too windy to even think about a boat tonight and tomorrow is suppose to be the same.
I wish you wouldn't fish the fall when the fish really have the feed bags on, I mean they have eggs so that's prespawn too, please stay don't keep any fall fish either thank you!
I always say that it doesn't really matter when you keep fish and when you don't, just my thinking. At some point in time they will be fat and full of eggs.
Might as well just not keep any fish ever like the fluflu feather fishing guys. Plenty of unsustainable fish that comes from faraway places that we don't need to get emotional about at the grocery store.
If they did spawn in there and it was fruitful there would be NO DOUBT that there would be a season to protect those spawners.But we all know that it's not so thus the stocking program.It's a great time of year to catch those larger 'eyes.Go gettum and enjoy.Soon as I get rid of my "freeze baby" attitude I should be joining you.
It's probably true that some folks don't really know they don't naturally reproduce in that lake, and I appreciate people who do care about those kind of things, but there's no reason whatsoever why some have to get sarcastic with remarks instead of explaining the situation.
just spent well over an hour at the causeway casting floating stick baits along the rocks... waste of time, the water is very muddy and i couldn't even raise minnows to the lantern. guides kept freezing up again too. think i'm going to wait until monday before i go again. water temp has also dropped by 3 deg. be careful lots of ice on the rocks.
Seems to me that stripping the eggs and fertilizing on the spot makes sense as the fish are returned to the lake. These fish as well as those being stocked make for a decent population. I do believe that Mosquito could be a super walleye lake if a size and limit were set and enforced with periodic on the water as well as launch point checks.
Shortdrift, two weeks ago I was up mosquito and spoke with the resource officer. He said something along the lines that the powers to be wants them on the water more during the week, not just on weekends. So you just might see more enforcement there this year.
I for one, don't mind being checked by dnr. A show of presence,may give some, pause in the way that they feel that they can do whatever they want! Seeing the damage and trash is upsetting enough. Let alone watching them keeping every fish they catch, no matter what the law's say. I fished a lake that had signs stating that it is illegal to fish off the courtesy docks. DNR,was directing boat launches and loading. People still tried to fish the docks, most were sent away,but one cast, was $150.00,no license,was $75.00. One officer was busy writing summons to appear in court. No one was exempt! They were all given a vocal warning. But as we all know, some are always going to push the limits. And all boats were checked, coming and going. Looked like the Circus came to town! But you really didn't have to wait very long to launch or load.
Good! My BIL and have been checked and surveyed several times at Pymy. Turns out they were busting members of the straw hat and beard brigade, aka "the blue scourge" left and right! Why? Because they were violating the law. But they complained about being picked on, and we know how it goes with a "vocal minority" these days! So, enforcement efforts were throttled back. I didn't like that. I want them to bust as many stinking poachers as they can, and I don't care what they look like!
As far as the surveys went we told a couple of guys we were in favor of the 9" crappie limit that had just gone into effect in many Ohio lakes, and wished that Pymy would get the same. Our personal size limit is 10". As far as I'm concerned if a crappie ain't 10" it ain't worth cleaning!
We spent about 4hrs on Misquito yesterday , North side, South Side, Causeway, not even a nibble.
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