07-17-2011, 01:01 AM
Some of you guys may know us from the UWN fishing site where I have 325 posts.
Mantua - We got to Mantua at 5pm. As we were setting up I saw a big trout cruising up the inlet and I tried to throw a blue fox black spinner at 'em but he would just follow it. We were both on pontoons and my twin was the 1st to locate the Bluegills spawn grounds. He called me on my cell phone and I headed over to him. It was literally action every 3 to 5 mins! I caught 32 bluegills and my twin caught 32 bluegills so we brought home a total of 64 bluegills. A tie between us, that never happens. The largest was my twin's at 9 inches and pretty fat. There were about 4 dinks total so we were happy.
We were using a size #6 baithooks with a small chunk of nightcrawler under a bobber (about 12 inches from the hook) and I used split shot weights about 6 inches from the hook and my twin went without the weights. They were found very close to the brush and in about 2 hours the action slowed down a bit so we moved our hooks about 15 feet to the left and the action was back on. As I went to retrive my bobber rig from the trees I felt the bottom surface with my paddles and it was rocky despite the weedy appearance.
We left at 8:45pm and we ran into a very rude group that was really unhappy about us geting our pontoons back to shore. I guess they felt we shoulda cut down some trees to get back in or paddle to the other end of the lake to the boat ramp and walk back to our car. The bugs were everywhere and bug spray didn't even help. I did speak to an angler with some very nice sized trout and he claimed he got them by sinking a worm on the bottom of the inlet river. Thanks to the construction near Willard we didn't get home till 11:45pm. Probably going to try and get up there again on Sunday.
Oh yeah and I read in a library fishing book that bluegills are not great for a stringer because of their soft gills. I lost 2 that way and several of the fish were very close to coming off too.
Gonna try to add some pics as soon as I figure it out. It took me a while on the UWN.
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Mantua - We got to Mantua at 5pm. As we were setting up I saw a big trout cruising up the inlet and I tried to throw a blue fox black spinner at 'em but he would just follow it. We were both on pontoons and my twin was the 1st to locate the Bluegills spawn grounds. He called me on my cell phone and I headed over to him. It was literally action every 3 to 5 mins! I caught 32 bluegills and my twin caught 32 bluegills so we brought home a total of 64 bluegills. A tie between us, that never happens. The largest was my twin's at 9 inches and pretty fat. There were about 4 dinks total so we were happy.
We were using a size #6 baithooks with a small chunk of nightcrawler under a bobber (about 12 inches from the hook) and I used split shot weights about 6 inches from the hook and my twin went without the weights. They were found very close to the brush and in about 2 hours the action slowed down a bit so we moved our hooks about 15 feet to the left and the action was back on. As I went to retrive my bobber rig from the trees I felt the bottom surface with my paddles and it was rocky despite the weedy appearance.
We left at 8:45pm and we ran into a very rude group that was really unhappy about us geting our pontoons back to shore. I guess they felt we shoulda cut down some trees to get back in or paddle to the other end of the lake to the boat ramp and walk back to our car. The bugs were everywhere and bug spray didn't even help. I did speak to an angler with some very nice sized trout and he claimed he got them by sinking a worm on the bottom of the inlet river. Thanks to the construction near Willard we didn't get home till 11:45pm. Probably going to try and get up there again on Sunday.
Oh yeah and I read in a library fishing book that bluegills are not great for a stringer because of their soft gills. I lost 2 that way and several of the fish were very close to coming off too.
Gonna try to add some pics as soon as I figure it out. It took me a while on the UWN.
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