[coyote]

Had a hankering to check out the Chain as i usually do once a year. Got a great report from John the owner at Cj SMITHS RESORT. Headed right to the bridge as John told me and found plenty of White Bass with a small minnow and a bobber.By 830 wanted to try for some eyes so i headed to PETITE , tryed in deeper water for 30 minutes with nothing to show for my efforts. By 900am ist started to rain pretty good and by the time i got back under the bridge to seek shelter there were 3 boats alreddy there , we all hung out there for over an hour while it poured at times. Between the 4 boats fishing under there no one caught a fish.Wet and cold i decided to go back out in the drizzle and look for crappies or gills. Found over 50 gills under most piers in channel leading to PETITE using a ice jig and a waxie, Gills were not huge but found a few in the 8 inch class. Unfortunatly could not find a single crappie. Threw a few Muskie lures on Bluff LAKE FOR 15 MINUTES AND DECIDED TO CALL IT A DAY. While i have ahad a good day or two over the years out here , my inexperinced showed today.By the time i got out home the sun actually came out so went over to loval pond threw a buzzbait on and got a nice pike to the end the day , so it wasnt a toal loss.[

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[fishkid]

Nice Pike and Im glad you atleast figured out the gills!

 

[FishinMatt]

Nice adventure Mike 8)

 

[twoglasseyes]

Good stuff Mike. To bad about the rain, looked like a good day anyway.

 

[fishin_chris]

Looks good to me. Out in the rain fishing, is better than work any day.

 

[ornery squirrel]

Mike,
My brother in law and i were under the bridge with you on monday while it rained. Went out to marie after the rain stopped and caught a nice 19 in ch eye jigging a monnow that unfortuantely had dermal sarcoma virus which means that it had big ugly looking tumors all over its body. It was pretty disgusting looking but in researching when i got home found out most fish will recover.
Headed over to channel lake and had good luck finding gills and crappies underneath the docks using wax worms on mini mites

 

[Rich L]

Nice fish Mike!

 

[coyote]

Nice to meet you Squirel MAN, guess i should have went up to Cnannel but never been there and rain kept me from venturing to far. Hey throw some tips this way, i might get out there 1 more time this year and would love to find some decent crappies

 

[WrenchingnFishing]

Nice Catch Mike!!!

 

[Islandfisher]

Nice job out there Mike!

 

[Andy S.]

Nice Pike Mike !

 

[ornery squirrel]

Mike,
try the first 5 docks on the right hand side as you enter channel from under the bridge on marie. You have to get close to the docks and cast under them, use minimite and wax worm though crappie bites seemed to work also

 

[washhusky101]

Thanks for the report. That Gill looks nice.