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Bangs Lake In the Wind


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I received a permission slip to sneak out for a few hours on Sunday and boy am I glad I did!

The wind was brutal, but when I set up in the dark it wasn't too bad. It didn't really start picking up until around 8:30. Then I had to hunker down in the Clam and start the heater.

The bite has really turned off around here, however the key is to fish areas that haven't been hit. Using my Navionics app I found an area that formed a slight saddle. There was 15fow that ran parallel to the shore then it made a quick loop back and had 10fow on each side. This 10fow flat was shaped like a C so I fished the inside area in about 14fow and was on fish right away.

The fish were chowing down on my drop jig with a maki plastic and a single spike. I tried Wax worms but they wanted the single spike or no spike at all.

The Vexilar played a huge role in finding these fish as I had to hole hope a few times to find where they were holding. With the zoom turned on and the gain up a bit I could see even the smallest perch that would come up to my offering.

The bite died off about 9:30 when the sun was higher. I could get fish to come in on the Vexilar, but couldn't get them to bite. I swapped jig after jig and was able to pick a few here and there up.

I ended the day with a half dozen crappie and a mixed bag of gills, perch, pumpkinseeds and a small bass.

I only brought 4 fish home for a nice fish lunch.

If you are headed out the one piece of advise I can give is to stay away from the heavily pressured ares and put something down there that they might not have seen yet.

Here are a couple shots

A photo doesn't do justice to the colors

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Hmmmm Clam Drop Jigs! What are you looking at?

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A couple keepers. Bangs has increased the minimum size for Black Crappie to 10" an these were a bit over and tasted delicious

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