luckycraft Posted April 22, 2013 Posted April 22, 2013 Didn't fish Springfield lake today, but did drive over top of it on 60 a few times. The water looked a lovely green. It was a great day to be outside. Didn't wet a hook, but I did have a Tom Turkey coming in like he was on a string...... before being busted by a hen and the whole group was out. Oh well got the heart beating a bit.
MSUFisherBear Posted April 22, 2013 Author Posted April 22, 2013 Luckycraft, I about had a hen take my head off flying over me yesterday. I'm sure the Tom was somewhere near. There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. ~Washington Irving
Members Calwood kid Posted April 23, 2013 Members Posted April 23, 2013 Do you catch the goggle dyes up the river arm mainly? On crawdad crankbaits?
MSUFisherBear Posted April 24, 2013 Author Posted April 24, 2013 Nope and Nope. I found a little isolated piece of timber out on a flat off from the channel. It was on a swimbait. In fact, every fish I caught Sunday was on the swimbait. There are some new pieces of wood in the lake that have washed in. The google eye was the only thing that came off of them. One thing that I have noticed is the uptick on my swimbait bite. The thing about it has been, it's not been on big swimbaits, its been on really small ones (like 2-3 inch ones). The lures that I have done well on the lake with the past three years are really not producing, but those are. It's not completely suprising to me, as I have noticed a lot of fish gorging on shad. I have to believe that this prolonged cool weather has prolonged the spawn much longer. I do know that the females have moved up. I caught one, completely by accident (I can't really site fish well in a kayak, and I wouldn't have wanted to do so on intention anyway) that was full of eggs, and her tail was really tattered from fanning. I put her back right away, right where I caught her. It did tell me though that at least we are inside the spawn. Who knows for sure how many waves of fish have moved up. I have a hunch though that it's still very early, and that this years may be prolonged into the middle portions of May, moreso than they have in the past. There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. ~Washington Irving
aarchdale@coresleep.com Posted April 24, 2013 Posted April 24, 2013 Calwood Kid and i were out on Sunday and we cruised to the back back of all the slack water, saw a lot of fish up on the bank. We caught a few LM in the back of the creek where the nature center is dragging jigs where it was clear, we were just sight fishing for them. only ones we caught were small, i broke 2 off because i havent put heavier ling back on yet. im ready for the lilly pads to grow so we can throw frogs at them, it never gets old
MSUFisherBear Posted April 24, 2013 Author Posted April 24, 2013 I do agree with the theory that the big ones move up first (some of the talking heads in bass fishing have long theorized this). Considering the one that I happened to catch and the ones that you seen, maybe the larger ones have already spawned out. I have a really hard time believing that, but maybe so. I do know that the senko bite has been hot on the flats for the last couple of weeks. I really didn't throw that this weekend, because I was looking for crappie and possibly some big red-ear (caught some about this time last year). I absolutely love catching them, and they taste pretty darn good. So, maybe they have already spawned out. If so, that's a-ok with me. It means the topwater bite is going to start getting hot here before too much longer, and by far, that is my favoirte way to fish. Aarchdale - I wanted to say, one place that I was paddling to (I really don't want to give this spot away, because it has held some big fish for me before :-)) had hydrilla growing in it and quite green. Starting Sunday and moving in to the first part of next week should really kick us off that way. There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. ~Washington Irving
luckycraft Posted April 25, 2013 Posted April 25, 2013 i don't know if any spots on lake springfield are secret
MSUFisherBear Posted April 25, 2013 Author Posted April 25, 2013 i don't know if any spots on lake springfield are secret This may be very well true, but I have never seen a soul other than myself fishing it :-S. Usually everybody just blows right on by to get to their "spots". There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. ~Washington Irving
aarchdale@coresleep.com Posted April 25, 2013 Posted April 25, 2013 there isnt a corner of the lake i havent been, i always chop through the lillies and get to the back of all the back water areas. took the boat through a little 3 foot wide cut all the way through from some back water back out to the river channel the other day, it was up just enough
MSUFisherBear Posted April 25, 2013 Author Posted April 25, 2013 I think I know we're you are talking about. I mean, like I said, I'm sure people have been all over it. There is certainly something in angling that tends to produce a serenity of the mind. ~Washington Irving
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