My son and I spent 6 hours on Conneaut yesterday. Another busted day of fishing, but at least it was a delightful day. Talked to two other guys out on the water who fish Conneaut quite often. They relayed that over the course of spring 'til now, they have boated and frozen 550 bluegills, but could not get a hit in any of their favorite spots. Two other guys managed only 3 bass for the same period of time. Conneaut is extremely weed choked, with the coon tail thriving beautifully, and the cabbage just starting to turn color. Couple that with lake grass and other underwater growths, it makes for some tough fishing. We found weed growth clear down to 20', as the water is very clear and allows light penetration down deep. For the rest of the lake, the Helix 7 shows nothing but a big (mostly) muck bottom, with some small clouds of bait fish down deep, but no hooks or arcs anywhere around. At one point I was coming out of 18' and the next second my motor is bucking and coughing in 8' 'cause the weeds grew up to just under the surface. Had to trim all the way up and untangle the mess from the prop. So, over the last 3 years and three trips to Shenango and two to Conneaut, I've done nothing but contribute money to the gas stations. If I repower (smaller) in the spring, I'll just stick to Lakes Author, Keystone, and the Allegheny River.

Pymy?

 how deep were they?
 

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My pontoon is put to bed for winter. I'm itching to go tho. I got a private Crappie pond in Slippery Rock I can hit. PM me if you get the itch to fish there with me for a few hours. 

This is by far my favorite time and method to fish. Got out mid morning for a few hours. Same program. Attachments are not available: Download requirements not met

 Nice! Next few days should be purdy good. The few times I've fished it the past 3 years the Panfish have been healthy. Heading to Pymy on Thursday for a week, might get out for a few hours.

 If I make it out gonna be north end for Perch. My brother hasn't fished yet this year so going to try. He gets cold so fast so won't be a long outing. Hope Tim can stay 'till Saturday so he can make it also. Old lady was up there today and said about 4"--5" of snow. Cleaning up bedroom today and found 6 shopping bags packed with Panfish tackle so going to sort through some now. I loved going through my little bit ov fishing stuff as a kid but not as much any more :(  Good Luck mup'dere/. Yeah, they remind me ov a frizzbe!!
 
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I knew going in, it was gonna be a short window on Pymie today. Was dead flat from 730 to 1030. Then that wind started right on schedule. Bounced out at 1115 We got 13. 3 10s, the rest were 12s and Maggs got this one. I think it's 13.5. She reefed up a bonus 11" perch too boot. With my other 2 teens giving Dad a hard time daily, I enjoy when me and my fishin Gal get out, no matter how long. Attachments are not available: Download requirements not met
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Went solo today out Moriane. Wind and weather was very cooperative. I highly doubt there is gonna be any more days like today, until Spring. Brought home the last batch of the year. 25 more puts the freezer at quota level. No real brutes. Just typical 10 to 12s. Now I can get it ready for a winters nap.

Took the boat to the Freeport launch (Allegheny River), the docks are still not in.... Caught 2 nice size small mouth and one 18" walleye.   

I can confirm that the mud has been cleaned up and the dock is now in at the Freeport launch.

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For the past three weeks I've been fishing below Dam 4 on the Allegheny. June 4th, I lost count of how many walleyes I landed right in front of the lock vertical jigging with a minnow. The following week, I was picking them off trolling around the Tarentum bridge with Bay Rat crank baits. Yesterday trolling around the Tarentum bridge, the catfish wanted the Bay Rat's and the walleye wanted the crawler harness.

If the weather is nice I'll be fishing Erie next weekend, if the weather isn't nice I will be shopping at Poor Richards, FishUSA and one of the firework stores on the state line.