Posts Tagged Roadbed
Another Tough Day at Wilhelm
Posted by Jon Parker in Parker's Fishing Blog on October 19, 2009
Sonar from the roadbed on Oct 18, 2009
Took at trip to Lake Wilhelm on Sunday with my Dad. It wasn’t the warmest day on the water but it is October so fishing in the cold comes with the territory. It was 38 degree with 15-20 mph winds, brrrr. Water temp was 49 degrees. We launched around 10:00 AM from Launch #4. We started fishing on some humps and roadbeds with a shad colored crankbaits and jigs for the first 2 hours without a hit. I’m pretty sure there were fish down there, see sonar, they were just not willing to eat for us. Next we moved down the lake to a weed bed and was able to get two hit on a black and blue jig but didn’t get hooked up. We then went to some laydowns but still couldn’t get hit. We made one finial stop on the way back up the lake in a small weed patch in 5-7 feet of water and I was able to finally get a fish. I nice 3lb largemouth on craw tube. The fish were not eating as good as I was hoping but it was a beautiful day on the water.
Lake Arthur Trip Last Night
Posted by Leo Cancilla in Cancilla's Fishing Blog on May 21, 2009
With the bass spawn going on and gorgeous weather my friend and I decided to head to Lake Arthur for a Bass/Striper combo evening. We started by fishing for largemouth and man did we get them. if just 3 hours we boated 20 bass and lost about 15 more because the fish were on beds and just not trying to eat the baits, but they wants them off the bed. At around 8:00pm I decided to go try my favorite striper spot. Each of us were able to hook up with 1 striper and they were both around the 20 inch mark. We were also lucky enough to have a couple walleye strike our jerkbaits. I can’t wait to fry those guys up! Usually, I am a catch and release guy, but occassionally I like to keep walleye or crappie to have a little fish fry.
Nick & A Nice Walleye
Past Weekend on the Water
Posted by Leo Cancilla in Cancilla's Fishing Blog on May 21, 2009
I spent another Friday and Saturday at Pymatuning Lake with my dad this past weekend. Friday was a practice day and man things couldn’t have gone better. Everything we threw we caught largemouth and smallmouth. We had a spot where crankbaits were working, another spot where buzzbaits where working, and we even found what we thought was a school of smallmouth on a roadbed. In about 5 hours of being on the water we had boat about 20 bass in about 10 spots and did not set the hook on the same number of strikes.
In the Keystone Bass Buddy Tournament Saturday things went south. We decided that we would start by fishing the roadbed for smallies. Instead we found a school of 13 inch largemouth and about 5 nice crappie. It gave us a nice limit, but these fish were not going to help us win the tournament. We decided to go to the crankbait spot next because the size of the fish should have been better. However, the only thing that we caught in that spot was a 8lb walleye. After a couple of quick stops we decided to go try our buzzbait spot. Instead of a buzzbait bite we found a spinnerbait/chatterbait bite that help us call multiple fish. Unfortunately, we lost 2 fish in that bay that would have help us greatly. In the end we were very disappointed.
Sunday my wife, my friend and I decided to head up to Presque Isle and Lake Erie to try to get some spawning bass. The wind had another idea. It was a very rough day, but we still managed a couple nice smallies and a handful of largemouth.
Slow Crappie Bite
Posted by Leo Cancilla in Cancilla's Fishing Blog on May 13, 2009
I spent last night at Lake Arthur with a good friend trying to find crappie for a fish fry. We were only able to get a couple crappie in the live well which we end up releasing. I haven’t been to Lake Arthur since the KBBC Tournament in early April, so I wasn’t quite sure what to expect from the lake. First, we hit a couple of brush piles and we were unsuccessful. Then we tried the weeds and once again unsuccessful. Finally, we went to a beaver hut and caught 3 crappie. There wasn’t any size to them so we released them.
Around 8:00 we decided to quit crappie fishing and see if we could get into the hybrid stripers. After driving to one of my favorite spots on the 
roadbed I could see some bait activity, but less than normal. It took us about 15 minutes until we caught our first striper and it was only about 12 inches. After that my friend and I each caught a 26″ hybrid striper. Both fish were taken on light weight tackle and we were using Rapala X-Raps. We had a few more stikes, but no more hook ups. Those big stripers made the night even better than it already was.
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