We can really tell that winter is coming to New England with the nights in the upper 20’s, days not getting out of the 40’s and the winds are blowing more regularly. Shallow puddles and standing water are skim
ming over with ice in the mornings and this is cooling the lakes very nicely as well. We had a couple of hours to get out on the lake and decided to take the kayak and try the crappie pond that we frequented so much last year. We can’t get the big boat in this pond and is a nice body of water for a paddle in the yak for some quiet fishing time. We have our best results in the deepest hole of the lake when we are looking for crappies and that is where we headed. With the Vexilar flashing and watching that as we paddle towards the hole, there wasn’t much activity showing up on the screen. When we reached our destination, we drifted around until we found the first school of fish and let the anchor out and rigged up. We are using the Austin Custom rods as our choice this year and I can only say one word about them, AWESOME. The tip is sensitive enough right now that we don’t need a spring bobber at this time, the backbone on these rods is unbelievable and the fish challenged the rods but the Austin rods won out every time. Started out with the Loby Baits Stoni in the red color and that bait was on fire until I lost it to a fish. We had caught around 30 crappies and used three plastic baits and two of them went back into the box, the third was lost to a fish when the line broke. As we worked our way around this hole, there were only a few schools of fish that we found and was kind of a disappointing day numbers wise as 30 fish on this spot is nothing compared to what we were catching last year. The waters may not be cool enough yet and the fish aren’t schooled together quite yet which means that the fishing there can only get better. We will be hitting that pond quite a bit this fall and winter when the ice forms and looking forward to trying out some other new equipment when the ice forms as well....
ming over with ice in the mornings and this is cooling the lakes very nicely as well. We had a couple of hours to get out on the lake and decided to take the kayak and try the crappie pond that we frequented so much last year. We can’t get the big boat in this pond and is a nice body of water for a paddle in the yak for some quiet fishing time. We have our best results in the deepest hole of the lake when we are looking for crappies and that is where we headed. With the Vexilar flashing and watching that as we paddle towards the hole, there wasn’t much activity showing up on the screen. When we reached our destination, we drifted around until we found the first school of fish and let the anchor out and rigged up. We are using the Austin Custom rods as our choice this year and I can only say one word about them, AWESOME. The tip is sensitive enough right now that we don’t need a spring bobber at this time, the backbone on these rods is unbelievable and the fish challenged the rods but the Austin rods won out every time. Started out with the Loby Baits Stoni in the red color and that bait was on fire until I lost it to a fish. We had caught around 30 crappies and used three plastic baits and two of them went back into the box, the third was lost to a fish when the line broke. As we worked our way around this hole, there were only a few schools of fish that we found and was kind of a disappointing day numbers wise as 30 fish on this spot is nothing compared to what we were catching last year. The waters may not be cool enough yet and the fish aren’t schooled together quite yet which means that the fishing there can only get better. We will be hitting that pond quite a bit this fall and winter when the ice forms and looking forward to trying out some other new equipment when the ice forms as well....BackWoods Sportsman web site:
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