Fishing Reports

[HICKMAN]

Figured it's that time of year. Post up your reports!

Date: 4/9/11
Where: Shakamak State Park
Time: 6-830pm

Was a beautiful evening to fish, temps in the upper 70's, water was slightly stained.

Tried minnows on bobbers for crappie, but never got a single bite. Water temp probably still a little cold.

Switched over to bass fishing, slow rolling small spinnerbaits with Indiana/Colorade blades. Tried white and chart/white with no bumps or hits.

Around 7:30 we switched to white buzzbaits, it was throwing a small and my oldest was throwing a regular large Strike King. Action picked up after that.

My first came after bumping a stump, nice 14in. Second came off of a perfect cast next to a laydown. My oldest caught his two just working in open water.

My third came off a point on the other side of the cove it was in, made a looong cast and he hit it about 3 feet off the bank. I caught this one on a white Rage Tail Shad. I had 2-3 big hits on this bait before this one, but had a hook that was too small on, wasn't getting through the plastic fast enough. Went to a wide-gap Gama and caught him on the next hit.

 

[rkesar]

date 4/9/11
where- private lake in north vernon


The day started out rainy but the fish were biting great, I started out crappie fishing and we were catching them one after the other. We were using minnows and crappie tubes. when it stopped raining the crappie stopped biting so we decided to bass fish for awhile, we caught about 15 bass in a little over an hour on senkos and brush hogs. we decided to try the crappie again in a different spot by a downed tree and caught 12 more. Overall a great day. This pic is the first time we filled up the stringer, we put them in the cooler and filled the stringer again

 

[sp3worker]

The walleyes are starting to bite on Erie. This is from yesterday, we limited out but it took till 2pm.

 

[csm47362]

This is my first week fishing. I went out on Tuesday kind of cold at around 50 but had an excellent first day out for the season to my new favorite honey hole a very small pond(maybe a little over half and arce). I was fishing with a 2" Storm Minnow in a green/yellow color. I landed 9 bass here are 2:

My second day out was today started abput 2 when the temp was just shy of 80. I was fishing with a 1/2 oz rattletrap in a blue/silver. First cast out a nice 2#er 3 cast out was this:

largest bass I have ever landed in Indiana. Just over 5.5 lbs. It broke my pole. I was using a Shimano 6' med action pole with BPS casting reel. Fish took a nice jump then dove and snap! I landed it with half a pole with my standing in about a foot of water! Way to much fun. I cant wait to go back.
BTW my total for the day was 13 and I also landed a 3.5#er!

 

[bwframe]

Friggin' genius...

...not me, but my old fishing buddy. He is also a retired electrician who taught me that romex has many uses beyond the intended.

As far as the fish...


...meh, nuttin' much since the rain Saturday. Looks very promising though. Temps are coming up and full moon in a week or so.

 

[HICKMAN]

Hit a pond on Greene-Sullivan. Couple of small bass on buzzbaits late.

 

[thej27]

Mostly bluegill the times few time I have been out this year but I have caught a few crappie, couple largemouths and a couple wipers. Yesterday as I was coming back to the ramp a guy had a 13.5 pound wiper.

 

[bwframe]

Let it rain, let it rain, let it rain!

 

[Panama]

8:30 tonight, 3rd cast, big Jitterbug, double secret location
The big bulge in it's belly, was another fish!

It's tail was hangin' out and still wigglin' inside it's mouth, never seen that before!

 

[indyk]

4-9-11 6:00AM, first of the season, Bassn Trip

6:00 AM the Destination was Griffey lake Bloomington IN
Indianapolis Dry/spotted clouds, forcast: spotty

well on the way to Bloomington 56 miles
all heck broke loose, lightning everywhere.

We show up at Griffey as the Shack was closing, 8:00AM CLOSED

Got the idea to follow the storm's tail end to ROCKVILLE LAKE

A few hours and a hundred + miles later

we show up at Rockville, 12:00pm, we got our boat, paid the fee and hooked up the motor

Water is a little cloudy, boat temp 70/75 slight wind.

We caught 12 large mouth no real keepers, all of brush and wind blown banks

3 on a JSR 4
7 on silver buzzbait
2 on silver B lewis rattle trap


SO, in actuality we caught 12 small - in a 12 hour fishing trip
beats workin

 

[duff]

That's a heck of a trip Indyk! I have fished rockville lake a few times and they only seem to have small bass but decent gills and crappie.

I hit Lake Greenwood last Friday with a buddy and we caugt 2 small bass and 1 nice black crappie and 1 nice yellow perch. Not what we had in mind but better than work for sure!

Mushrooms are up too. No better way to beat the cabin fever than to get some fresh fish and fried shrooms. Good luck guys!

 

[HICKMAN]

That's a heck of a trip Indyk! I have fished rockville lake a few times and they only seem to have small bass but decent gills and crappie.

I hit Lake Greenwood last Friday with a buddy and we caugt 2 small bass and 1 nice black crappie and 1 nice yellow perch. Not what we had in mind but better than work for sure!

Mushrooms are up too. No better way to beat the cabin fever than to get some fresh fish and fried shrooms. Good luck guys!

Hoping to pick up a small boat in the future and fish Lake Greenwood after work

 

[duff]

Hoping to pick up a small boat in the future and fish Lake Greenwood after work

I have worked out there for 2 years and just finally got to fish that lake. I have a small row boat and an old outboard. I just need to get the motor running and hit that lake more often. I hear the gills and crappie are pretty good but the bass are on the small side.

Good luck.

 

[SmileDocHill]

And now for a little more armature fishing.
Location, neighborhood retention pond about 100 yards from my house.
Bait, I broke down and bought some worms after the third failed attempt to put a shovel in my yard without hitting a wire or sprinkler system pipe (we moved in October so I've not been here during good weather enough to know my own yard).
Company, well, it just doesn't get any better...
We caught about 8 fish in all ranging from 5.5 to 8.25 inches. All in all, a great part of the day. Most importantly I got the tackle box suited up to be able to go whenever they want.

BTW, does anyone know what kind of fish these are? I deserve answers like "only the most common fish in all of Indiana".

 

[sig shooter]

Those are Bluegills. Good eating if you like to eat fish

 

[bwframe]

1/8 oz Roadrunner head w/Panfish Assassin body. Both in chartreuse.

 

[sig shooter]

Nice crappie. Are you fishing at Monroe lake?

 

[bwframe]

Nice crappie. Are you fishing at Monroe lake?

No, I live near Lake Lemon. Up until this year I've only found crappie that are barely keep-able. I've only begun to get an idea of how to find the larger ones.

 

[sepe]

My oldest brother use to have a boat and we'd hit some local lakes. We use to have some decent luck on Lawrence Lake fishing for crappie. One year we were in a bass tournament and I hit something with some weight to it. Other boats were watching, I pulled up a 19" crappie. Nobody had much luck with bass that day...really bummed me out having to throw that one back.

These days, I mostly fish for cats but haven't been out yet. Looking forward to it. A woman I was talking to today said she was catching some decent walleye over the weekend up in Elkhart County.

 

[d1wil]

Ohio River to muddy and high,Silver creek also muddy