Monday Feb 6th Dan and I headed back to Balch Pond for crappie. We fished the north side, center pond between the islands, parking at a summer camp off Whitehouse Road. I'll have to stop by this summer and try to get permission to go back next winter. Keep logging in and see if I actually do that! Again we found the deepest water in this area, set out most of the tip-ups in 25-30 feet of water using small shiners. We are having trouble with shiners this year, lost half overnight last trip and more than a dozen died today before noon. I have been fishing with shiners now for decades and normally can keep them alive for weeks...only thing that changed has been a new local bait shop?? First fish was this nice Largemouth Bass. This fish took the shiner, just off the end of the island in 7' of water. Before the day was over we had 2 crappie, 2 yellow perch and 2 white perch, all of which are currently filleted and in the freezer. Kept seeing schools of crappie passing through the fish finder beam but could not get a consistent bite from them. Crappie fishing is new for us, have to keep working on it. I think we need to do more with the jig once we find the school.
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