Well I was finally able to get both my wife and daughter out fishing today, it was a blast. This is my 2 year olds first trip in the boat and fishing on soft water. I choose Mantua as it is not that big and am almost garuntied to get some fish. We got on the water about 1:45-2:00 and headed out to where I have done ok in my float tube. Got all rigged up and started dropping in about 15-18 feet of water. We go nada nothing zip, so we moved, and moved and moved. Finally we found a little perch in about 6 feet of water but nothing again. After working this area for a while we headed back towards the ram and I saw an are that did not look to weed infested in about 10-12 feet of water and I was marking fish as well. So we dropped here and sat for a while. than I felt the tap tap of the Bluegill on a little jig and it was game on. We ended up putting in 12-15 ok sized gill in the boat, all had there pretty Sunday go to meeting colors on. My daughter had a ball helping reel them in and than scooping them in the net. But I think the highlight of her day was throwing them back in the water she would just giggle. All in all it was an awsome day. Topped it off with a pizza at Tonys in Riverdale and than came home.
Ohh yea the water temp was right around 71 degrees. It felt real nice on the ramp.
Majja