04-16-2014, 01:14 PM
My son and I skipped school and work friday afternoon and took a run to Mantua. We had a few nice hours of conversation completely uninterrupted by such annoyances as fish. Usually you can see fish up under the trees, but the water was so murky we couldn't see a thing. We worked along the trees from the boat ramp around the south side, then along the east side over to the point. We tried worms w/no weight, worms with a BB sized split shot, worms under bubbles, a variety of flies behind a bubble, and different types of spinners, spoons and castmasters. NADA.
First time in my life I've been skunked there. After seeing the water conditions I wondered the lake had rolled over because it was the same color and clarity from the ramp clear across to the point. A dirty dead-mossy brown. I held a white jig body under the water to see how far down I would be able to see it and it disappeared about 10 inches down.
Usually you can find the holes in the middle because of the change in water color, but the only way to tell if you were over a hole was with the fish finder. Nothing in the holes either, not even baby perch.
We drove back up last night just to see what it was like and its still the same, so we are going to wait for another week or 2 and go back and try again.
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First time in my life I've been skunked there. After seeing the water conditions I wondered the lake had rolled over because it was the same color and clarity from the ramp clear across to the point. A dirty dead-mossy brown. I held a white jig body under the water to see how far down I would be able to see it and it disappeared about 10 inches down.
Usually you can find the holes in the middle because of the change in water color, but the only way to tell if you were over a hole was with the fish finder. Nothing in the holes either, not even baby perch.
We drove back up last night just to see what it was like and its still the same, so we are going to wait for another week or 2 and go back and try again.
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