Gill-T

Start high, add weight or diver lips as sun gets higher

April 1st on Naples Creek.......Get to the river to find a spot on a good pool at 4 am. Wait in the water till legal fishing time. Watch as everyone else enters the water rolling the bank mud into the water clouding everything up. After legal light, enjoy getting your line tangled with the people standing shoulder to shoulder with you as you try to drift a 8' section of water in front of you while hoping the people around you are not belligerent a-holes. NO THANKS. Go the following two weeks and you will be able to find quiet water to yourself.

Cavitation and boat moving effects what you see. You will be shocked how many fish are under your boat when in neutral-not moving esp over deep water.

If I had to pick two....eight and five colors.

Many times they are high enough that they disappear in the surface clutter on your fishfinder. You would have to set the zoom and power to show the top of the graph. I see them in the summer depths on Lake Ontario right before they hit a rigger line so there is nothing magical about them.

What they are selling at Fat Nancy’s would give you a good indication.

I flew over the lake Sunday and I would say 1/3 of lake has ice

Boom is placed across the mouth of the upper river. They probably won’t pull it til mid April.

Boom in place

They do well in Lake Michigan

I would love to see a study of lake O salmon tissues looking for pharmaceutical based hormones that may be in the water. How about the stuff in plastics? Stuff changing rapidly in evolutionary terms. The amount of largemouths with melanin black blotches is alarming. Nobody talks about a “fish bowl size” theory. The larger the fish bowl, the larger the goldfish. Perhaps salmon with an ocean evolution are evolving to the smaller lake setting.

Jigging or trolling? Jigging and family time = pontoon