Buckeye83 Posted April 7, 2019 Report Share Posted April 7, 2019 Finally made it out for some fun fishing!! The river was much warmer than I thought it would be. 57 when we launched and found it as warm as 62 up in the afternoon. Started off throwing a single swim bait with no takers. Started throwing a small crank and started catch fish. We caught 11 smallmouth and 4 largemouth by 10:30. After that we swapped to fishing for bluegill and shellcrackers. We wanted something for the skillet. End up catch 18 keepers and my B-I-L caught the biggest shellcracker I’ve ever seen. Check out the pic. It was every bit of a pound. That sucker had shoulders. It was a good day to just relax and fish a little!!! Needed that for sure!! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackertxw175 Posted April 7, 2019 Report Share Posted April 7, 2019 Thanks for the report report. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHTN Posted April 7, 2019 Report Share Posted April 7, 2019 Nice dinner, Matt. Thanks for the report Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BulletDeuce Posted April 7, 2019 Report Share Posted April 7, 2019 Well done Matt! Thanks for the report. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
brwnbass Posted April 7, 2019 Report Share Posted April 7, 2019 Sounds like a good day. Im gonna have to try some shellcrackers, i here they are really good to eat. And they get big on norris too, like 3lbs+. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
softbaitmaker Posted April 7, 2019 Report Share Posted April 7, 2019 2 hours ago, brwnbass said: Sounds like a good day. Im gonna have to try some shellcrackers, i here they are really good to eat. And they get big on norris too, like 3lbs+. If you ever eat a dinner of Shell Cracker filets you will never look at crappie filets the same again!!! Shell crackers beats crappie by a mile when it comes to good eating..........JMHO 9 hours ago, Buckeye83 said: Finally made it out for some fun fishing!! The river was much warmer than I thought it would be. 57 when we launched and found it as warm as 62 up in the afternoon. Started off throwing a single swim bait with no takers. Started throwing a small crank and started catch fish. We caught 11 smallmouth and 4 largemouth by 10:30. After that we swapped to fishing for bluegill and shellcrackers. We wanted something for the skillet. End up catch 18 keepers and my B-I-L caught the biggest shellcracker I’ve ever seen. Check out the pic. It was every bit of a pound. That sucker had shoulders. It was a good day to just relax and fish a little!!! Needed that for sure!! Thats a nice big female Shell cracker for sure. If they are spawning and you find a bed of them the big mature males will be almost black and their ears will be a really bright orange. When ever I find a big bed of them I only keep the big black males and release all the females and young males so they will still make a good spawn to keep the population of them in the lake. The young males will service many beds of the females to keep the gene pool strong..............JMHO Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Whopper Posted April 8, 2019 Report Share Posted April 8, 2019 Good report Matt Thanks for sharing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckeye83 Posted April 8, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2019 It was fun. BB- they are good to eat. I can’t catch a crappie so these are all I can bring home to eat. They are delicious. I couldn’t imagine catching one that went 3 lbs. softy- we caught a bunch but throw all females back except that one. My wife’s grandma loves to fry those eggs up and eat them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blaserdude1 Posted April 8, 2019 Report Share Posted April 8, 2019 Nice catch! Beech used to have a rep for break ins. Has that improved? Thanks, bc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SteveHTN Posted April 9, 2019 Report Share Posted April 9, 2019 11 hours ago, Blaserdude1 said: Nice catch! Beech used to have a rep for break ins. Has that improved? Thanks, bc Most of that has died off, from what I understand. I went last year, and had no issues. It’s an awesome little fishing hole. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Buckeye83 Posted April 9, 2019 Author Report Share Posted April 9, 2019 (edited) +1. It’s a lot better than it used to be. I haven’t heard a break in a couple years. The ramp is a big mess though. When we got got all that rain it flooded both ramps and it’s a muddy mess. Edited April 9, 2019 by Buckeye83 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trackertxw175 Posted April 10, 2019 Report Share Posted April 10, 2019 23 hours ago, Buckeye83 said: +1. It’s a lot better than it used to be. I haven’t heard a break in a couple years. The ramp is a big mess though. When we got got all that rain it flooded both ramps and it’s a muddy mess. TWRA put gravel in the one lot sometime since last week Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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