thinking on going to mantua on wednesday. anybody doing any good
Bama and I were out there yesterday and it was slowwwww. We didn’t see very many, but the ones we did see were followers…not ‘takers’.
The water is still trying to warm up a bit. Right now the best bet would be for the troutskis.
We hit it on Saturday. Nothing big just a lot of gills and little bass. About 30+ fish though!
What was following? Bass, Gills, Trout - MUSKY! (ya, right)
I went out this afternoon, and had a pretty good time with the panfish. But I like’s me panfish - so that’s a good thing! Just a kick to get into one of those scenes where every cast is a hit.
I, too, was out there this evening. Absolutely nothing of size from shore.
In the final hour of daylight, I whacked the crap outta the 5-10" largemouths, but all 26 of my fish caught probably only amounted to about 2 pounds worth of fish…
Of course, it didn’t help that the power crew was slopping up the shoreline so bad that visibility was zero… Ended up catching almost all my fish in the back pond…
Was out there Sunday flippin 4" Maniac Salt Stix into the bank and the trees in the SE corner of the lake. I got four and my buddy got 5 largemouths. Biggest was a14" bout 1 3/4 to 2 pounder. All the rest were12 inchers.At noon we anchored the boat in about 5 or 6 feet of water back in that SE bay to have a sandwich and a Odoulslight ( or two ) and tossed out a worm under a bobber to see if we could catch the bows that were rolling everywhere. That was an exciting lunchbreak…couldn’t keep the bobber on top of the water cuz of all the bows nailin that worm. Fun stuff !
Woops…Barney’s not on this site is he ? I meant Sprite Light not Budlight !
I was gonner say - you might want to edit that down to O’Douls, and check the signs at Mantua. Theyz got regz all their own.
what were you cathcing the Bluegill on? Thanks!
I’d started with my standard beads, blade, octopus hook under bobber - also casting and spinning, but not getting much love, or hookups.
So I downsized to an ice jig - think they’re called moon-drop - went with bright orange then switched to pink (when I lost the first! 
) Tinsy snippet of crawler, and just pitched across their nests - no bobber, no extra weight. Casts weren’t going real far, but that’s part of the fun of that kind of sight fishing. I was in maybe 4-6 ft of water, or less.
Light tackle, loose drag, can be a riot. Gotta get me a fly rod down there while I know where they’re at.
Thanks!
it’s hot right now. I don’t know what the dwr is saying with the slow fishing report. I was up there today and did great for bass and gills. Some were caught on worm under a bobber but the bulk of them were on my fly rod. I was wading in about 3 feet of water out in a flat area I like. I love it cause you can be in the water against the fish.
If you like fly fishing try out a Craw colored wolly bugger or a green popper, Those were my best today. And I threw the box. Pretty well everything had love but they where the hot ticket for me. I got ALOT of the bass and gills on the topwater at well.
Good luck let us know how you do!
Nice to hear you’re getting out there. Gather you’re healing up then. Just watch those stitches with all those wild pitches!
Got some fluffy green and brown things I tied to try there. I had fish snapping at the cotton-wood clumps that formed on my line in past years. Silly fish!