All Small stuff Saturday but I had a blast learning to "interpratate" what the fish finder is telling me. This year I have been learning how to locate suspended species of panfish. It is a Blast. All those years fishing from the bank were so helpless felling. Now I can find and actively catch them wherever they are in the lake, hot weather or not. At certain lake I hope this works in fall to catch suspended Lakers and other. The reason I began fishing at Merrill creek was that it is close and also I heard that the next state record pickerel is likely to be caught there. My Wife found a giant Pickerel dead on the beach....probably some "Hater" handled it roughly for chomping his minnow....we'll never know. must've been 25+/". The attendant on duty at the ramp said that to catch these I should follow the herring balls on the open water. He said that the big ones become more or less free living once they're above a certain size and they follow the live bait. They're apparently caught on occasion at 30-40' by the Laker fishermen towing their planer boards.
With fishing, especially by me, its easier to know stuff than to perform it all. Ain't it all awesome?
Saturday, Lots of average gills. most at 19-22', one medium Pickerel and four smallish bass. It was fun. Even the dog had fun.
