Pool 5 Report

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HI Jarrad, good report, and nice Beaut-EYES. very nice fish. congrats on the new boat. let me see if I have this straight. you give a good seminar at my club last week. then you go home and get a new boat. wow, the club must have broken the bank to pay you. that is great, but now am sure our dues will be going up. talk to you soon. Jack..

Jarrad,

I see that you have had luck catchin pike, where are you finding the most productive water to be?

Thanks

Most of the backwaters have been producing big pike. When you find one there will about 100 others. We caught almost 30 the other day and we only out for 4 hours. They sure are fun but they stink and they are slimy. I have been trying not to bring them in the new boat.

hey jarrad i have had lots of people tell me that pike are better than walleye, there are a few guys in town that have told me if i bring them a batch of northerns they will bring me their walleyes anyday?? I told myself the next northern i catch i would try but i didn’t think it would be right to try it with a 37 inch northern

if you’re going to eat a northern, you might as well eat a sheepie . i think they’re related somehow?

anyway, i tried a little backwater fishing last spring just after ice out. we went out of west newton out towards weaver. didn’t catch a darn thing . we were fising pretty shallow. do you think that they’re probably in a little deeper water still?

Hey! Careful there Jake…………….you don’t want to go insulting Sheepies like that.

I think if pike were absent of those Y-bones, you’d find a LOT more people eating them. They’re good fresh but don’t freeze as well as others.

Great looking catches there Jarrad! I think I feel an itch coming on!

how do you no that was an insult ???

i sure didn’t mean to offend you in anyway there stillakid, i know how much you like them things .

Jarrad,

Can you elaborate a little more about what type of structure you’ve been finding the pike using and what you’ve been using to catch them? Have they been in shallow, muck bottom bays by the weeds or out in the cuts with some current? Also, it sounds like you’ve been having some fantastic pike fishing. Is there a pretty small time period to take advantage of this spring opportunity or can you consistently find the pike in these back water areas for several weeks? Thanks for the help.

Boone

Boone,

The pike that I have been concentrating on has been a secondary channel of the main channel. The bottom is mostly sand. We have been hammering these pike pretty consistenly on almost anything. Rattle traps, Jigs, rapalas, live bait have been putting these fish in the boat. I spent about 1 hour in that spot today and landed about 6-8 northern. Biggest one today was only 5 lbs. Yesterday it produced a 15 lber. These fish will probably be around for a couple of weeks yet. Beginning of May can still be good for them. Then they move on. Depths of these fish have been found from about 3′ to about 10′. I hope that helps.