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These are very lively golden shiners, 5-7” in length. They’re swimming off to the side, pulling the line at steep angle and doing circles pulling on their “leash”. Kinda surprised that they didn’t set the flags off honestly. Watching the way the line moved, there were times I though it looks like it’s trying to get away from something suddenly, but nothing came of it. I’m going to try a bullet weight or loop on casting weights till they are relatively anchored below the hole. I know the north end is where there tends to be more action, I’ve fished it in a boat a few times. Problem is I don’t know about any public access parking spots on the north end, and we are on foot. Prob going to give it a try again on Wednesday, I still have some large bait that I want to use up.
I ended up going to little sabattus yesterday, another mostly sunny day. Got lots of flags on med shiners, and a few on the large ones, exciting but mostly lost bait. I’m thinking the perch got well fed without feeling the hook. Didn’t find any of them perch the little bit I jigged, but we did finally get 4 bass at last hour of sunlight. Still no pike.