Started off the morning a bit late at Newton, on the water at 9:00. I knew that place was getting a lot of press lately but holy cow, must have been 20 boats on the water. We were looking for perch but in about 4 hours of looking, my son landed one crappie and I missed 2 bites[frown]. Most everyone else seemed to be trrolling. We tried for half hour or so with no luck. Stopped to do a little trap shooting by the dam and after a quick trip back to Brigham to pick up my daughter we hit Mantua. Water was a little rough but the 3 of us managed to catch at least 100 blue gills and 3 perch. Kept 30 or so for dinner tomorrow and was off the water about 2-1/2 hours later. Really glad we switched lakes. Water at Newton is dang high, kinda threw my normal perch haunts off.
Sounds amazing! What were you using, and is there a good place to get them bluegill from shore?
Nice fishing, any worms in your bluegill meat???
Not sure if you could get 'em from shore or not, been too long since I tried. We just use a jig head and some form of bait, )they aren’t picky) I’ve never experienced worms in fish from Mantua, do you see it often? I eat a couple hundred fish a year from there and don’t recall any with worms. Strangest thing I ever saw was what appeared to be a tumor right in the thick of the meat in a Bluegill caught from Hyrum. It went promptly in the garden
So how do you catch the blue gills?
Jay
Just got done cleaning another batch for tomorrow nights dinner[sly]
We catch them on small jigs tipped with different baits. It seems a combination of colors works the best i.e. red jig, green bait; green jig, salmon egg. My son also caught a rainbow tonight, about 16 inches. They were sure surfacing actively tonight. He went straight back for someone that prefers slime rockets for dinner[;)]