Caught over seventy just to put twenty in the box today. One of my favorite spawning spots is still bare of fish this year. Found them in a totally different area today.lots of six inch fish tho.
either side,use a slipbobber and try different depths,start at 1'and move down a foot or two everytime all the way to 8'or 10' or until float is laying on side ,which means your on the bottom,but might catch perch right on the bottom.
I’ve also noticed more 6-8” crappie than I’ve ever seen at mosquito. I was out by myself a week ago and caught over 60 crappie that were under 9” and the keeper’s that I did catch were typical mosquito crappies 10-14”. Anyone have any theories what’s going on? A good hatch 2 years ago ? Crappies are starting to get stunted ? Maybe it has to do with lakeshore bait and tackle commercial netting the Minnows in mosquito for the past 2 years
I and my brother were out yesterday also. Fished the north end for a while then headed to the stumpfield. We caught at least seventy crappies to get twenty keepers. Glad we weren’t using minnows. Baby shads put them in the boat.
Same story for us Wed & Thur ....lots of shorts in the mix, caught probably 150 or more to keep 70 ...slow running the stump flats (7'-12') on north end...most on minnows, some on plastics.
Most of the keepers were females still full of eggs !! So the spawn is not over yet.
You guys have a beautiful lake there !!! Just wish there were more places to stay there !!
The crappies are just going threw that cycle lots of smalls with good ones! The keepers have gone home with people now their kids are starting to grow! Saw it like 7 plus years ago! Give it 2 years !
And why exactly can't odnr do anything?
This is all I can find, copied from Ohio fishing regulations....
Bait
It is unlawful for any person except licensed bait dealers to possess more than 100 crayfish, or in combination 500 crayfish, minnows, and other baitfish. A bait dealer’s permit is required of persons buying or selling minnows, crayfish, and hellgrammites. This permit may be obtained at wildohio.gov.
It is unlawful to release any baitfish or minnow into waters of the state from which it did not originate.
So does this mean no regulations on where they can harvest from??
I'm curious about this.
why is this centered around september , if it is true at all? does this mean they get fatheads for the entire year? i have seen the bait truck there in the past, but not since ownership has changed?
First off this thread is fishing at Mosquito please get back on topic. Second if it is legal what is there to complain about? Some people are only happy if they are complaining. If they are getting minnows legally they are making many fisherman happy when the perch can be found on Lake Erie.
Yeah destroying a fishery like mosquito lake is no big deal as long as the perch fishermen going out of Ashtabula have minnows. The DNR agent for northeast Ohio admitted that it shouldn’t be legal and gave me his superiors phone number claiming he was the guy that could stop this. Taking a lower trophic level specie out of any ecosystem is going to have a huge effect on the predator species. There’s no way mosquito can handle a commercial harvesting of minnows like Lake Erie could. I understand why they’re doing it. Mosquito has or had a good population of Lake shiners and mosquito is a much more controlled environment compared to Lake Erie. Just remember commercial netting for perch in eastern and central basins of Lake Erie was legal and we see how well that worked out for us
Caught a couple dozen on Sat. on south end of Mos., most were 10-11 and only a couple 12's. Didn't throw too many under that back so size seemed close to normal for me. only took 15 home to eat.
If I remember, three years back is when the weeds growth was very heavy on mosquito. Maybe this is the reason a lot of those crappie survived. There is a lot more small perch and bluegill too.
Trying Mosquito in the morning after work (Wednesday) the north end, been hearing & seeing all sorts of small crappie coming from the lake this year. The last two years the crappie on average have been smaller.
Just to weigh in on the commercial minnow netting..... they most definitely do I fish the lake atleast 2 times during the week after getting off work at 11pm. I actually ran into them last year at the 305 boat launch catfishing.I had pictures but got a new phone and lost them.
Caught over 20 today, all small ones though..8 to 10 inches only, minnow and bobber, about 2 feet down, lots of dink perch too, almost annoying, they were biting immediately, 6 to 8 inches on them, then the storm came
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