Went to nimi and moggy Friday from shore didn't do no good hopefully with the warm ups coming I can some crappie soon

 

My dad fished Wingfoot last week when it was 60 degrees. He fished the shallow bay next to the launch ramp with the dead tree stumps. He saw a bunch of fish near the surface. He caught a lot of panfish, but they were all small to medium size.

 

Perch should be going in the shallows at the foot. Past few years before ice up they were on fire wading

 

I did pretty good on the perch out of my yak in the fall. I was mostly drifting between the blimp hangar and the ramp on the east end. Is this an area I should target again as it is pretty shallow?

 

It gets deeper than that in 3 places right off the top of my head. And there's 1 super deep hole

 

So what area would you advise targettting ? I may hit it on Sat. Thanks

 

I would look shallow. Around the pavilion area where the dock normally is. Idk if it's still in haven't been there in awhile. Or behind the dog park,

 

thanks, will probably leave the yak at home and wade that area

 

If you have a yak i would bring it. Idk where the fish are those are just spots I've caught them in the past before ice up. With this weather they might not be holding in those same areas.

 

Have a friend who walks his dog nearly everyday at Wft. He said for the past two weeks, he's observed(eyes on!) people catching fish from shore and in boats near-shore nearly everyday he has been out there! He's not a fisherman and he didn't know what kind, just"panfish". Time's awasting....

 

Have a friend who walks his dog nearly everyday at Wft. He said for the past two weeks, he's observed(eyes on!) people catching fish from shore and in boats near-shore nearly everyday he has been out there! He's not a fisherman and he didn't know what kind, just"panfish". Time's awasting....

 

Was at Wingfoot today. There is 3 or 4 hundred Xmas tree piled up at the boat ramp
all about 4 ft. long. Look to be freshly cut.

 

Very welcomed(and needed) fish attractors! Find one of those piles in the Spring and it's "crappie time"! Hope they mark a map for locations.(My cheap locator doesn't show them very well.) We used to put them off the little concrete abutment by the dog park years ago. Until they decomposed, that was "the spot"! Thanks for the info Mr. RG. Hope to run into you again out there.

 

Maybe they'll put them on the ice so you'll know where they;re at.

 

If only they'd get rid of all those tires.

 

Find the right spot at Wingfoot wether structure or not you will catch a lot of fish. The pic I posted is 1 day last season where I had fish under me litterally all day and never moved. Wasn't on structure just wide open basin.

 

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Find the right spot at Wingfoot wether structure or not you will catch a lot of fish. The pic I posted is 1 day last season where I had fish under me litterally all day and never moved. Wasn't on structure just wide open basin. View attachment 200076

That's what it was every night for us last year as soon as it got dark. Non stop all night long, didn't ever want to leave

 

Have had quite a few very good days there. Find the deep water find the fish. Some people think the lake is only 13 ft max but you can tell by my vex pic it's 16 ft with a bunch of perch on bottom and crappies and gills higher. Takes a lot of drilling and searching in the beginning but once you find the right spots it pays off 95% of the time. I fish 3 areas of the lake and 80% of the time I go to old reliable and usually pill some fish.

I usually drill 10-20 holes and constantly hop around while the fish keep circling around. That day i didn't need to. Big Johnson was out there with his 2 kids and they had a blast. He didn't believe they were stacked like that until he got out there while I was chasing my shanty across the lake after it blew away lol

 

Have had quite a few very good days there. Find the deep water find the fish. Some people think the lake is only 13 ft max but you can tell by my vex pic it's 16 ft with a bunch of perch on bottom and crappies and gills higher.

What a vex??

 

There's a 30' hole out there that I've seen all the supposed fish that were stocked in there. I've seen Pike and a 30" eye caught out of there a couple years back.

I use to fish it for bass but it's been on the decline. It's crazy how stacked the crappie used to get. It was like looking into a minnow tank when I use to fish it.

 

I almost never fish the foot at night. Normally leave at dark, but like you said some nights you just didn't want to leave it was so fast and furious last year.

I've tried the deep hole a few times and could never pull anything out of it besides bass so never went back. Long walk

I left about 1/2 hr after dark that day, they were aggressive and were hitting jigging spoons. All 3 species.

 

I almost never fish the foot at night. Normally leave at dark, but like you said some nights you just didn't want to leave it was so fast and furious last year.

I've tried the deep hole a few times and could never pull anything out of it besides bass so never went back. Long walk

I left about 1/2 hr after dark that day, they were aggressive and were hitting jigging spoons. All 3 species. View attachment 200153

Can't seem to get em going till dark. Then it's nonstop crappie. Very few gills and an occasional cat

 

Dad and I fished the deep hole after ice out a couple of years ago. It was stacked with crappie from ice out until the spawn! The next year, we could hardly get a nibble there! I don't understand it. Only thing I can think of is that maybe the baitfish weren't there for the crappie that year.

I have noticed that in a basin that is generally the same depth, if you find an area that is a little deeper, there will be fish stacked in there! Did really well for largemouth in 2 different thick weedy basins in Canada in this situation! Just hard to find these spots without a fish finder or vex. I've tried drift fishing on wingfoot for crappie and perch with some success in certain areas, but don't have a fish finder to see what is down there that is holding the fish!

 

I've served many fish from wingfoot to kids adults grandparents and have never had anyone get sick or heard and complaints. They actually compliment the panfish and majority of my panfish come from wingfoot or Nimi.

 

I eat the fish, but in reference to the chemicals, they would not effect taste, but would increase the likelihood of cancer at a later date. You would receive many compliments on taste but possibly not so much for content.
In addition, smaller panfish usually have lesser amount of carcinogenic chemicals present because of the food base that they consume.