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Looks like you guys had fun. Keep up the good work getting the young guy out on the water 👍

Thanks Crappie , think Grandson will be into fishing but not sure about hunting 😜.. we are working on it but will see how that goes ...all I heard all day was Granddad I need another minnow ... lol

Well wife and myself hit the lake this afternoon .. really slow not many boats out. A few small crappie and I mean very few , wife did get a nice catfish about 18” which was released but that was it ... so after 4 hrs called it a day was home by 7:00 PM ...water was really warm also ..finder was saying 80. That all I got guys ... good luck out there ...another warm spell coming from what I hear ...

Trolled all day from the dam to Linesville. Caught a 24" channel cat, 18" largemouth, and some small perch. But what a great day.

Ugly Stik
Trolled all day from the dam to Linesville. Caught a 24" channel cat, 18" largemouth, and some small perch. But what a great day.

That is a long troll from Wilhelm to Pymy

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Ugly Stik
Trolled all day from the dam to Linesville. Caught a 24" channel cat, 18" largemouth, and some small perch. But what a great day.

That is a long troll from Wilhelm to Pymy

LOL again😂😂😂. You beat me to it psu. Think the heat must be getting to everyone

Thought I'd give the North end a try on Saturday since I had to avoid the Arthur insanity and I didn't have a fishing buddy for the day anyway.  Launched my big round tub from the Sheakleyville "launch" bright and early.  Let's be clear here... if that is a launch then my boat is a Yacht.  It's more of a crummy old road that ends in the lake.  And the weeds there BOY HOWDY.  If you are paddling you'll be fine.  If you have a motor you are gonna chew some weeds.  So that's what I did.  Blender-ed my way out to the sort-of channel and headed under the bridge.  Went out to the 6 fow band and hit a bunch of stumps hoping for some crappie too dumb or lazy to be downlake where they should be.  
 
Didn't happen that way.  Caught a half dozen shorts and one keeper crappie who wasn't much to brag about.  I'd have taken a dozen or so of his buddies but that wasn't to be.  I saw a snapping turtle that was GIGANTIC.  I mean capsize your kayak big.  I've seen and caught some impressive snappers but this guy was their granddaddy.  Caught a few bluegills also, none of any size.  
 
Saw a bunch of schools of 2" or so shad.  Would be good bait but I'm pretty sure Wilhelm is a no cast net lake still.  Doesn't make much sense.  
 
Not too many boats up there, maybe a handful.  Got out of there around 2pm.  Main lake was a bit of a zoo when I crossed the bridge headed home.  Beauty of a day even if the fish weren't cooperating.  Was going to use my leftover bait Sunday morning early at Arthur but my old bones were having none of that and I slept in instead.  

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.... ..and that's all I have to say about that. 👍

Some other pretty pics from today.


Didn't turn out the way I hoped. Big goosey lookin' bird with bright orange bill and feet. Bunch of loons too.

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Thank you very kindly Kokanee. Not the fish I was lookin for but still made for a great day.

Good times and tight lines.

Pork a couple of em sure had some chubby bellies on them. Pretty sure they weren't carrying eggs. Wasn't seeing big balls of bait registering on my Helix either.

I hear ya on the fish meeting the frying pan but I did have a bit of luck ice fishing as well as good catching in the Spring.

Had those fish been Mr. Walleye, they would have been posing with my fillet knife.

Good times and tight lines.

I've caught way more crappie and perch than walleyes, when trolling with Hot n Tots and Flicker shads, which that appears to be in that last photo.

Stupid fish........ 🎃

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Water temp.... 65.5

Launch #4

Got my asz soaked.👹

Had fun eating balomy samidges in the rain. Making for some great memories.💀

Good Grief!!! 😈

Good times and tight lines.👽

So Sam, tell us, what do you think of Fergies? Lucky you didn't get there in the afternoon just before closing. You might of needed a bait truck rather bait bucket. lol Hey, did ya make em an offer for the place.

Be neat as heck seeing a sign out front "under new management" welcome to ZELIE FERGIES. 😂😂😂

Glad you got on some fish and as always enjoyed your rant.

Oh, by the way, have I ever mentioned launch one sucks for launching BIG boats. Especially during high tide?

Maybe put the boat up on her winters store but I wouldn't be in a hurry to winterize your tub. Some good fishing to be had before ice up.

And a straight run down the road from the bait shop.  Bit of a run if you want to go downlake though.  What I really need to do is learn to catch crappies properly at Arthur instead of driving that far north.  But I always end up perch fishing instead, and the crappies that hang out with the perch are all small.  It's a curse.