I think there's a rule that your last 3 fishing trips dictate how you think your year is going overall ;). We scoped 2 new lakes via canoe this weekend, both at opposite ends of Maryland and had slooowwww fishing at one (dinkers of various species), and kinda slow fishing at the other. The only savior on the other was a nice pocket of crappie that kept us entertained for about an hour.
-- I got one on a popper?!? Anyone else have that happen? The rest on marabou minnows, my mainstay. Crappie are never a target for me, but they're not too bad.
Then I hit the local tidal creek and found nothing but small white perch -- none of the usual bass/snakeheads/carp/cats you see this time of year. I don't know whether the rain has kept the predators in the big river and the white perch are simply filling the void, or if the conditions are just different this year for whatever reason. Good/great days fishing for any species have been fewer this year.
Anyway - that won't keep me from trying, but in the interest of reporting bad days along with hero stories, there it is ;).
Rich Farino Discovery (RFD) from the weekend #1: Chain pickerel don't bite well (even in lakes where they are apparently quite abundant) when water temps increase in the summer.....or when there's been recent heavy rain....or when water temps increase and there's been recent, heavy rain. Or maybe just not at the two lakes we hammered, in early July in 2015.
Or they are spooked by scratched-up canoes painted forest green.
Gene
http://www.tpfr.org
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