Messed around out Moraine yesterday. Water temp went all the way up to 55. Had a very ugly color to it also. Fished crappies. Caught maybe 2 keepers and just a few dinks. They all went back. This is shaping up to a bad start of fall season. I'd venture to say its either gonna be into December or not at all. Typical 2020 weather pattern. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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Nothing like a day on the dead sea to get you to question your ability as a fisherman. 

Same thing happened to me last week. Beautiful day, just no fish. Been the same story the whole 2nd half of summer. Few catfish, few bass, lots of nothing else.

The bright spot was that my motor fired up and both it and my trolling motor seem to be working just fine after having issues with the gas last year and electric earlier this year.  That and it being Friday.  A few beers and knowing the weekend was there, I wasn't caring at all about it.  Getting skunked on a Sunday is rough.  
 
I did end up putting a hole in my trolling motor battery, which is only about 2 years old, so need a new one of those.
 
Hopefully I will find some time in the next couple of weeks to make up for this skunking.  I'm not sure if I can handle a double skunk, especially on a Sunday...

My boat was put into its annual winter slumber, time to switch over to the DHALO's and maybe up Erie for some steel.

Just came off of Pool 4 of the Allegheny. 4 hours and nary a hit.

Better than the skunking the last time out, but not too much...  Between two of us doing 5-6 hours, maybe 10 perch, 2 largemouth and a gill.  The supposedly low winds were blowing directly on us and neither of us dressed for it.  Crazy how 5MPH gusts, feels much more like 10-15MPH sustained...  Had enough bites and misses to make it interesting enough.  Having a few more layers on would have made it much better, but always good to get out.  

Trying to take my son and his friend to twin lakes shortly.  I know its short notice....but anyone know of any bait shops open today?  I called the place on Rte. 30 in the fireplace store, not open today and Jimmy's didn't answer.  There used to be a place close to the lakes in a guys garage, is he still there and open on Sunday's?  Been a couple years since I fished twin lakes and this will be my first time fishing this year......ouch....
Looking mainly for panfish or anything that bites.  We will start out in the upper lake, I think...

can’t help ya with bait shops but i catch lots of panfish on 2.5” gulp minnows that you can get at pretty much any big box store. trout magnets or crappie magnets good too. the trout magnet jig heads are the perfect size for gulp minnows. trout in twin lakes should bite either one too - think they still get a generous fall stocking.

Thanks snagr..
Wally World was out of bait so we called Jimmy's one last time on our way and they were open....got what we needed....
Fishing was slow for us (I don't normally do the trout thing) but there were some people around us picking off a few...some pretty nice ones well over 20" too.  
Myself and my son's friend had several missed hits over the afternoon but my son only had one hit and landed a 10" rainbow.  Released to fight another day...  Most all our hits were on minnies under a small float....I was hoping for some crappie but no go....we used spinners and micro plugs too with no hits...as well as an assortment of gulp minnies I always have....
Kids passed the slow time whittling away on pieces of wood they found and talking about goofy stuff 12 year olds talk about....much better 5 hrs spent out there....rather than them on the xbox.

Definitely sounds worth the trip, even if fishing was slow. Great way to spend some time outside!

With this at home learning, its hard to have the kids "knock off" a day during the week. Glad you got them out for a little. 👍👍