SLIP’S 2019 LOGS, STATUS AND STRATEGIES - Bluegill - Big Bluegill2024-03-29T14:50:01Zhttp://bigbluegill.ning.com/forum/topics/slip-s-2019-logs-status-and-strategies?commentId=2036984%3AComment%3A776576&feed=yes&xn_auth=noSlow start to the open water…tag:bigbluegill.ning.com,2019-05-13:2036984:Comment:7773632019-05-13T17:06:23.114ZSlip Sinkerhttp://bigbluegill.ning.com/profile/SlipSinker
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: .0001pt; line-height: normal; mso-outline-level: 1; background: #F6F6F6;"><span style="font-size: 18.0pt; font-family: 'Impact','sans-serif'; mso-fareast-font-family: 'Times New Roman'; mso-bidi-font-family: 'Open Sans'; color: #191919; mso-font-kerning: 18.0pt; font-weight: normal;">Slow start to the open water season with winter like temps</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console'; background: white;">Winter finally loosening it’s grip on the tundra of Mid-Michigan with normal temps in the near forecast. Wixom Lake Water temps tested at the bridge on Wixom lake registered a blistering 48°F…wow.</span></strong></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console'; background: white;"><strong>With the absence of normal temps for the area there is also a curious absence of fish presence as well as spawning activity. Last year at this time… Lepomis were on the move in the shallows seeking spawning territories. This season I have yet to see a Lepomis in the shallows. Not even a crappie!</strong></span></p> Lunker Small Mouth Bass / Nor…tag:bigbluegill.ning.com,2019-05-13:2036984:Comment:7775092019-05-13T15:20:44.090ZSlip Sinkerhttp://bigbluegill.ning.com/profile/SlipSinker
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong> <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console'; color: #191919; background: white; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">With a Late spring season, snow just 2 weeks ago, I test the…</span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><strong> <span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console'; color: #191919; background: white; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">With a Late spring season, snow just 2 weeks ago, I test the chilly waters of my “Home” for the bite. Historically I should be tagging multiple species at this time including many warm liking panfish including Blue Gills… water temps ranging into the low to mid 60’s. water temps have struggled to remain above 50 with winter temp like nights and below normal temps in the fore cast.</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console'; color: #191919;"><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"/><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"/><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"><font color="#191919" face="Lucida Console">The reservoir has been on a -9 ft draw-down for repairs since November 2018. My local haunts are on the upper reaches of the reservoir leaving just a shallow river system thru half of the year.</font></span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"/><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"/><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Levels are returning to normal levels slowly but the fish have been slow to return with slim-picking numbers. I at times beg for the lowly N.Pike bite where more than 50% incur bite-offs.</span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"/><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"/><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I tag a large N.Pike that bites me off after a battle that settled with me trying to pull him out of a sunken laydown.</span><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"/><br style="font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; word-spacing: 0px;"/><span style="background: white; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">At the end of the Major.Period I finally tag a lunker Small Mouth Bass on my U-lite tackle while seeking the crappie/B.Gill bite…. What a battle!</span></span></strong></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console'; background: white; font-size: 12pt;">With winter like start to spring, late ice-out, snow, rain, low water levels and a busted tow vehicle it seems I’m spinning my wheels lately trying…</span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Console'; background: white; font-size: 12pt;">With winter like start to spring, late ice-out, snow, rain, low water levels and a busted tow vehicle it seems I’m spinning my wheels lately trying to hit the open-water season. The only option I have right now is a couple shoreline spots. With a 8ft drop down in water levels vacating the fish from those locations. Just recently the dam has been tightened and water levels have recovered somewhat. So has the fishing a bit… a few pike at first and now the SMB’s are starting a comeback. Today I split a short trip between the tail end of a Minor.Period and the beginning of a Major.Period uptick nearing the dusk period. I tag into my first smallie of the year… swim jigging. Only one fish on this short trip… but felt great! Keep those lines tight! Slip</span></b></p>
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</p> 20190427-~~<")))))><…tag:bigbluegill.ning.com,2019-05-01:2036984:Comment:7762762019-05-01T14:43:41.467ZSlip Sinkerhttp://bigbluegill.ning.com/profile/SlipSinker
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