Photo Sharing... Panfish on Ice!!!

[muc33]

hehehehe, I will note that as KNOWLEDGE!!!

[Shack]

Dtro,

That is one heck of a crappie.

I am starting to really get bigger fish by the week. We have been fishing a country local slue I call the "Drainage Ditch". It was slow the other night, but I managed these two.

I see the light! Notice what lure I am using . We where in about 20 fow, drop the lure down to bottom and then lift upwards. At first I would not tip the lure with any bait and this seemed to help lure them into the zone. Then they would just linger and I would adjust. First small grub, then a micro small crappie minnow would make me see red on the flasher.

More to come, I think the big ones are starting to bite. Just have to look around for the large red bars, not the little yellow/green bars when searching. LOL what are we becoming.

[Shack]

Tisosy11,

Those are some nice fish.

[DancesWithWaves]

Awesome photos guys! Here are a couple of mine from the past season:

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[tisosy11]

Do you guys filet your sunnies and crappies or scale em?

[PerchPounder]

I personally fillet all of my panfish regardless of size. Scaling them is way to messy for cleaning fish in the basement.

[Fricke]

I’m with you PrechPounder nothing easier than filleting some panfish with the electric knife.

[Bluegill1510]

Thats what I like to see a bucket full of nice crappies and bluegills! Looks like a good fish fry there awaiting for ya!

[Shack]

I catch and release all of my fish.

I am going to make another post, but I had to throw this up here.

[Wookiee]

I scale them then fillet them.

[tisosy11]

bluegill - you may like to see it, however the policy enforcers don't!!!

[tjbassmaster]

Here are some of our nicer fish from the year

All Were caught and released

same fish we lost our tape so never measured it. if i would guess i think it would be around 12inchs

Some nice sunfish 8 to 9 inches if i remeber right might both be 8

Sorry the pics are so big

[tunrevir]

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A couple crappies from the other night.

Tunrevir~

[Lusid]

Nice pics but they are so large for my 1024x768 monitor LOL i have to scroll

Can I suggest ppl to use a program like

Image Resizer

This PowerToy enables you to resize one or many image files with a right-click.

http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe

[tisosy11]

Nice fishes...

[Shack]

Great fish guys!

[tunrevir]

(note to moderators), Sorry for the dead fish pic. I'll try and post more appropriately in the future. Just wanted to show the size, I'll be more careful in the future. Lusid, thanks for the input, I am a non tech guy so I am learning as I go. Hopefully in the future I will post appropriately sized pics and of course I'll watch the content. Didn't mean to offend anyone, sorry if I did!

Tunrevir~

[muc33]

Nice fish guys!!! Hope to have some pics myself this weekend, Perchpounder and myself along with some others are going to help some boyscouts get their badges on the ice tomorrow, we will post some pics.

[PerchPounder]

Nice fish indeed! As far as tomorrow goes I am going to go out on a limb and guarantee we catch fish worthy of pics tomorrow.

[Jeremy airjer W]

Its so nice to get out in the metro with the walleye season over. I was the only one on the lake for 5 hours this morning. Those who showed up late missed the best bite of the year on this lake. These where caught on pink shrimpos with little atom plastics. These where the biggest two of the day.

9 inch metro gill

12 inch metro crappie

[Craig Plummer]

I went out with my friend Matt saturday and we tried a new spot. There wasn't a single shack anywhere within site of us. I'm glad we found fish because it was only his second time out this season. We found fish relating to the basin in about 12 feet of water.

Good start to the day...

Matt's first of the day...

A little surprise walter...

More nice crappies...

[muc33]

nice fish airjer!

[Shack]

Airjer,

Nice fish dude. I got home a couple hours ago from bringing the kids out for some sunny action and forgot the camera. We had a blast on a local lake, where no one was fishing since the shacks where off. I think this next week, with the drop in pressure, should be a great time (possibly the best time) in the metro area for pan fish.

Also Craig Plummer, nice fish. That last one is a monster. Keep us updated.

[Matt Johnson]

The background looks interesting Jeremy Good work bud!

[tisosy11]

Nice little airbrushing action!