Crappie day at camp

I took my nephew and daughter to spend the day at camp. Although it was the usual rainy weather we had a great time anyway. After deciding that 2 new fly fishers in a 13 foot canoe was a little dangerous, I rigged them up with wooly buggers and bobbers on a spinning rod. The crappies were bitting real good, and we also managed some sunfish from shore on the fly rods

Favorite pond

I've been planning all week to hit my favorite pond on Friday, so I was some excited when I woke up to a torrential downpour!!
So I packed up and headed in anyway. Covered in rain gear, the 2 mile hike was totally miserable. Fishing started off hot in the freezing rain. I caught four nice fish in the downpour. When the rain finally stopped, so did the fish. I don't have very good pics since I didn't want my good camera in the rain. My old camera is about ready for the trash. Anyway here is the only one that came out.

More Bass

Only had a short time this am, so I decide to head just up the road to try a little bass fishing. The bass were hitting good, as well as a few pickerel, sunfish, perch and chub. I hooked one good sized sunfish and as I was reeling in a pickerel came up and latched onto the side of the sunny and held on for about 15 sec. Cool!

Bass Fishing

I headed out to the outlet of Snake Lake this morning to try and score some largemouth. As the sun rose, there were literally thousands of dragon flies flying above the water. Some were hovering over the water others were landing on the lilly pads. The bass were going nuts over them. They would come out of the water and nail some in mid air, sometimes the would actually eat them right off the edge of the lilly pads!!! There was always a slash somewhere at all times! Only problem, I could not catch them. I threw everything I had and could not get them to bite. Definately cool to see, but mostly frustrating! I ended catching 2 small bass, a bazillion pickerel, and 1 huge yellow perch.