dculberson, I think that's awesome! Continue to take her out and soak it up!! Let me just say, it doesn't change when they get older eithe.! My youngest just graduated from OSU on Sunday and today he's headed to Nebraska to check out a job opportunity. So, yesterday afternoon, he and I took the boat out because I'm sure these opportunities will be less in the very near future. We ended up catching 33 crappie with several being 12". I have a 10" minimum on the boat so we also threw back several under 10". Also, I caught my first muskie! Just 15" but it was a surprise I'll take. My son has caught crappie but never had a day like that so we both had a lot of fun fishing together. Best technique was roadrunners up against the banks.
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Found some good crappie in close at alum this morning. Managed 4 all like this in a half hour. Unfortunately I was on my way to work, not home so I let them swim! I guess it was fortunate for them! Editing to include the details. 32nd ounce jig with a 1-in gulp minnow under a float.
Finally got out in the kayak for the first time this year. The cats weren't where I expected them to be this time of the year. It was a grind but I did find
a couple nice blues. It's tough getting a good pic in the yak. For perspective my kayak is 33 inches wide, so this fish is 38-40 inches. Didn't get a weight, but guessing mid to upper 20's. I got its twin about an hour later.
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a couple nice blues. It's tough getting a good pic in the yak. For perspective my kayak is 33 inches wide, so this fish is 38-40 inches. Didn't get a weight, but guessing mid to upper 20's. I got its twin about an hour later.
With the crappie being on fire over the past week, I took my wife out fishing for crappie for the first time. The lake we went to was super crowded with every cove having at least one boat in it. Even saw one small cove that was about half a football field that had 6 boats in it! My wife at one point was catching them faster than I could put the net down. She also managed to catch the most and biggest fish between the two of us. Caught several 12" fish and kept fish that were between 10.5" to 12". Unfortunately, she did not want to hold the fish so we took a picture together of the fish she caught. Most of the fish were caught on a jig and float (color, size or shape did not matter). I even managed to catch a 12" male crappie while bass fishing on a 3.3" keitech.
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Definitely!! I roasted the trout for dinner last Wednesday and she ate the whole thing herself. Even picked the bones out herself. I made hush puppies to go with it. The crappie, I cut up into little boneless cubes and fried with a diluted down version of the hush puppy batter and it was amazing. There was enough left over for me to take to work the next day and somehow it tasted even better heated up in the toaster oven here.
I stopped by the Olentangy "saugeye spot" on my way home yesterday and fished for about 10 minutes, landing one ~16" saugeye, my second ever. My pic didn't turn out well, you mostly see the net. He had some bits of fish stuck to his fin - it almost looked like cut bait? It was hanging off his dorsal fin, and at first I thought he had a parasite or serious injury. But after landing him in the net it came off in the net and he was uninjured. What the heck?
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I stopped by the Olentangy "saugeye spot" on my way home yesterday and fished for about 10 minutes, landing one ~16" saugeye, my second ever. My pic didn't turn out well, you mostly see the net. He had some bits of fish stuck to his fin - it almost looked like cut bait? It was hanging off his dorsal fin, and at first I thought he had a parasite or serious injury. But after landing him in the net it came off in the net and he was uninjured. What the heck?
Hit the north pool of Hoover yesterday for catfish. My usual place where I throw the cast net for shad didn't produce so we had to spend the first hour catching a few crappie for bait. Once we had bait we drifted along the channel and tried out a few new spots. Ended up with 6 cats, with one around 20lbs and another over 30lbs. I was fortunate enough to have a fishing partner today to take a decent pic.
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Alum smallmouth were on fire last night. A friend and I went out on the boat testing my new prop then when he started to look green we went in and fished from the rocks. I only landed one smallmouth (16-17"?) but hooked two more. One put up one hell of a fight and ended up pulling the hook off the line! I swear I know how to tie a knot! You could see the smallmouths feeding and several were jumping out of the water fully eating bugs. The sunset was incredible and the weather was perfect. Also my new prop is great, I think the old one was cavitating as the pitch was too shallow and the boat is much smoother with the new one.
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