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the middle lake is dead water I'm surprised you even saw one muskie LOL!!
ill probably check out bear lake this week, ill let you know. Im getting the crappie itch! the chautauqua perch are fun but i need some slabs in the freezer lol
drove by bear on the way back from maple springs on Sunday. Saw no one out there, a couple sets of tracks, looked like a lot of snow on the lake.
Hey guys, just to let you know I didn't fail to tell you how I did there, I just didn't get a chance to get out there yet, those two stupid things called work and college really get in the way of my fishing time! But back to your question, when I was younger my dad and uncles used to take us there and we would get crappie all the time....the past few years we would only pull out 2 or 3 in a whole day's fishing, but they were always good sized fish. I keep hearing that they bite better at night on Bear Lake so thats what I am going to try as soon as I get a chance. We usually park at the clever store and walk out to the other side by that house or cabin across the lake, there's a pretty good drop off there where we suspect the fish would hold. Hopefully one of us gets out there soon so we know how the action is this year!
sounds good trekker, good luck! And Mike, nice fish there!
very nice update! thanks a lot! Yeah we all know the crappie are in there its always hit or miss with them, like you said you just gotta find them. Even if they are there it is very hard to get them to bite sometimes. In the spring last year on chautauqua lake my brother and I saw the crappies hanging around the docks at long point. It was amazing to see how they actually bite. 100% of the time the fish would turn itself totally vertical underneath our minnows and they would bite up on it. If the minnow wasn't above them they wouldn't take it. So those fish that you marked 4-6ft. off the bottom probably were the crappies! Well good luck if you get out again and thanks for the update!
I did end up going to Bear Lake on thursday night. Fished from about 4pm until 8:30pm. There was about 9-10 inches of snow in some areas on the ice and an average of about 5-7 inches lakewide. Ice was thick, over 12". Ended up fishing by the trailers off that small stream in about 15 FOW. Caught one 7" crappie. It was not worth fighting the wind and the snow lol. Didn't even see any fish on the camera. Im not saying I wouldn't go back because the weather and snow conditions held us back from where we really wanted to fish. We will have to try it again and bring the quad to make it a lot easier. ood luck trekker if you get out today. Sorry for the late update!