(12-22-2023, 05:22 PM)doitall5000 Wrote: Nice Christmas tale with many presents. Many sweet treats.Just about all of the formerly good (over-pressured) spots held no active fish Thursday. Like a desert on my TV screen. So it becomes a "biblical system"...seek and ye shall find...maybe. There are several of the "regulars" who have boated away from the "traditional" perch venues and have found new hot spots. Perch are all over the lake and in some places they are still very numerous.
Glad to see the lakes full of treasures and delights.
It seams the fishing was good early but if you can find their hideouts you can get good action through most of the day. Did the other elves catch as many good presents.? Were there lots of floating shad on the water?
When I was heading back in about noonish I checked in with elves Ira and Alan. They had only managed to scratch out about 4 for the boat at that time. I handed of my leftover minnows and directed them toward where I had been catching but did not hear how they ended up.
I only saw a very few individual dead shad floating on the water...and no big masses along the shoreline as we have seen in years past. I think the worst of the dieoff is over and it was not as severe as in former years...when the water was lower and temps dropped faster.
(12-22-2023, 06:13 PM)gofish435 Wrote: Thanks for the great report, Pat. That was a nice haul.
Who would have thought that you could still be float tubing this time of year at Willard.
Nice to end the year on a high note.
Happy Holidays my friend.
Thanks, my fine float-tubing fudd friend. I have been enjoying your reports of extended fly-flinging action in your tube as well. Sounds like our Heat-Holder socks have been getting some good tests.
The year ain't over yet...and the water is still soft at Willard. Might just get out another time or two.