Slow Fishing

Slow Fishing

Outdoors Columnist

The old song said “Summer time and the fish are jumping,” but it must not have been about our local lakes. When the parking lot at Wapanocca does not have a single boat trailer at 5 p.m. on a nice Thursday afternoon, you know fishing must be slow. We fished until 7 p.m. using all kinds of live baits and lures and caught only one small crappie and a striper.

Midway lake has been slow with only a few fishermen catching enough fish to eat, catfish biting best. I visited with the folks at Horseshoe Lake and they had the same results. There were a few very early and late, but not much size to anything. The exception seems to be catfish. Several fishermen were having good luck catching some nice cats using trot lines and limb lines, mostly at night using cutbait, worms, big worms and small bream. The problem is catching the small bream.

A few of the private lakes are having moderate luck, but not catching as many as they did earlier this year. A full moon in June should be producing good catches. If you are having any luck, send me some pictures and fish tales.

By John Criner