Chauncy???

I've been going over to Mosquito lake this week and slammin the slabs. 2 trips....230 crappies and 2 walleyes. I'll probably be at shenango friday and saturday. I may be in my brothers Lowe on friday. My boat on saturday. Are you coming to the fish-together sunday?
Anyway, the crappies are shallow now at shenango. Fish any shallow wood you see. Spoon and nibble or small jig and nibble. Use the smallest bobber you can get by with. But you know that already. See you there.

I'll come over to the celery bay area around 11. I want to fish the rocks in the launch bay first. Should be real close to shore by now in there. Big momma's gotta be moving in. Looking for that 17"er.

Change of plans for me. Heading back over to squito in the morning but will be at shenango sat and sunday. Save some of those deer sticks for me.

chaunc, my buddies have been fishing that bay i spoke of.  fish were in one day, pulled out and haven't been back in since the last cold front.  any ideas?  btw, dinky and his son have been doing real good and big slabs at pymatuning.  e-mail from him spoke of a lot of fish ohio type slabs.

We hit Shenango on Friday Chauncy.  The start was slow, but the finish was wild.   We took home 41 keepers, 1 catfish, 1 white bass.   Just as many throwbacks.  Mr. Irwin's daughter was up with her husband and ironically caught 41 keepers as well.   We caught 6 species---crappie, bluegill, perch, white bass, northern pike (23" on the 4-1/2 ultralight and 4# line), and a smallmouth bass.   As the Grand Puba of Shenango crappies, I'm sure you know where we caught the smallie!   Red and white tube jigs w/ nibble were the main ticket, but white curly tails with NO nibble were the hot item at the end near the campground.   We just about had a crappie on every cast.   We had lots of 10's and 11's with 4 at 12".    "Big Mamma" is still waiting for you!   We still have the deer sticks as well.  We would like to do a repeat this Friday, but it looks like a big front is coming tomorrow night.  That will dictate our late week plans.   How was the Sunday fish together?   

We had 12 people show up. Had a nice time talking about methods and areas of the lake where fish were caught. The big fish winner weighed in with 1.5lber, 14" black crappie. Chuck the ranger even stopped over to chat about creel surveys. He wanted to know how the northern pike and musky bite is right now. I fried about 5 lbs of fillets and we had shrimp, hot dogs, 2 pasta salads, fried chicken, chips,donuts, and cold pops and waters. Not a big turnout, but a good time was had by all.

Going to have to fish locally. The bearings on my trailer went and my axle is damaged. Had it fixed just well enuff to get it home. Wont bring it out until i get the new axle for it. Put my waders on and fished from the shoreline today. Had to wade out to reach the brushpiles. Got 12 keepers but caught 20 in 3 hrs. Jig and nibble, sliding bobber worked for me.

Chauncy, did you get the boat fixed and ready for action again?  We were up again on Friday and did manage to pick up 25 keepers including 7 @ 12".   However, the bite was definitely impacted by the mid-week front last week and the colder water.  We only caught fish in 2 spots----in the swim beach neighborhood in 6' of water and in the campground area in 11.5'.  The fish were basically glued to the bottom and the bites were very light.   The best action was on red/white tube jig w/ nibble, white curly tail w/ nibble, and a few on microspoons w/ nibble.   Based on percentages w/ eggs from the prior Friday, I'd say some spawning occurred before the front.  I'd suspect the majority of the spawn will now occur mid-week through late week with the warmer weather returning. 
We noticed a Lowe anchored off the swim beach area as we were heading past in the AM.  Someone up front was wearing a white parka.  I thought it might be your brother and you, but the guy up front was hauling anchor too well for a man coming off rotator cuff surgery.   Keep healing, the Pirates need you!   Ha ha!   

That was my brother Rich. I was getting my trailer repaired friday. Got back on the water saturday and hammered the slabs. Could have kept a limit all over 11"s but did a lot of c&r. Got to keep the crappie population healthy. Got plenty frozen already.  Put my buddy Jerry from Pittsburgh on some fish. Didn't want to see him go home empty handed. I'll probably go back thursday. They may be done spawning by then. Getting geared up for the bluegill bite. Should be starting soon.

Sorry. I didn't see your post Sherrylv. We posted at the same time and i left right after i posted. Again, i'm sorry i missed your post.
Microspoons are small handmade spoons that my friend makes down in GA. They work great on the crappie at most lakes i fish. Shenango included. Check out the website www.microspoons.com I use a variety of colors with the #4 hooks for crappie. My favorites are the beadheads. The tiny spoons are very good on the gills and perch. #10 hooks in black are my favorite. If you like fishing docks, try Da-fly. CQ from North Carolina uses them with fantastic results. Check out the photo section on his site. Hope you have as much success as we are. Let them know i told you about them and he'll probably put some extra jigheads in your order.

We may give it a shot for a tri-fecta this Friday as well if the storms stay away.  I can see the spawn lasting into the weekend on Shenango.  We'd like to find a few walleye too.   We still have some deer sticks for the cooler, but they will likely get consumed on the next adventure. 
Sherylv, Chauncy gave you all you need on the microspoons.   They work.   I can't say they are an outperformer so far, but I'm a new user of them this year.   

Under a bobber tipped with something like a crappie nibble, maggots, or mealworm seems to work fine.   These spoons have a unique way of falling so they can be hit by fish during the drop.