Here’s a good pic from a good day on Beaver last Thursday.
We started out at daylight and fished the islands by Hwy. 12 bridge, then dragged brood shiners with the south wind taking us back in to Prairie Creek. We saw hardly any bait or fish, saw a few gulls but even they were looking and not eating.
By about noon we were back near launch and about to call it a day when we say some gulls below us hitting the water hard. No clock in my head on days like this so we put on some fresh bait and headed that way. Did not take long for the graph to show us big balls of bait everywhere, with fish going through them.
Then the first rod goes down our friend grabbed it. Set the hook to have his wife bring it in. A nice 27-pound striper that ran everywhere, so the most the boat did was pull out of the way. Got him in the live well and started putting lines back out, then while rod 5 was just going out another went down. His wife brought in that one, then she sees another go down and grabs it. Two more in the boat!
I’m not worried about live well now so just left fish on the floor to get bait back out. Only got the third rod out, then here we go again with him grabbing one rod and within 20 seconds she has one, too. We used the help of the trolling motor to land all these fish trying to pull us back, and fighting the strong wind all day she had no more and it was past 1 p.m. now, so we headed in with five nice stripers, a smallmouth and a spot.
All fish were caught in 20-foot water with a water temp of 54°. Warming fast, spring is here guys. Had another buddy catch some crappie off the shoreline in six feet of water, and about all the walleye that are moving towards the dam to spawn are here now, along with a few white bass being caught, too.
The largemouth mouth and spots are also moving into the shallows, which warm the fastest with the sun. Spring is here guys and gals. It’s time to fish and also time for me to go to visit with my Dad now. Get them poles ready.
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