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"8" is enough!

Post by panfisher » Mon Mar 22, 2010 6:54 pm

After spending 6hrs volunteer'n taking apart a few displays at the Yakima "Home and Garden Show" that were donated to the "Restore" here in Yakima I went down to Myron Lake from 3:30-5:30pm and had one of the best fishing days in a long time. Not only did I catch several small bass, several trout the biggest 18" a perch and over "40" crappie that were 6-7" and a dozen crappie that averaged 11" kept (8) to eat and finally had to leave with the bite still "HOT". Gave out several cards to this site and several jigs to several fishers. I caught the fish all on a variety of jigs I've made (pictured) including a couple of those trout/panfish "Candy Jigs" i posted about in the ice fishing forum. I wish I had My camera with me!!!
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RE:"8" is enough!

Post by returnofthefish » Mon Mar 22, 2010 8:08 pm

Sounds like a good fishing trip with nice looking crappies. Its great that you only keep the one that you plan to eat and release everything else. Keeps the fishery in a healthy condition.
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RE:"8" is enough!

Post by kevinb » Mon Mar 22, 2010 9:37 pm

Nice job, can't wait to get some crappies this year.

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RE:"8" is enough!

Post by gpc » Tue Mar 23, 2010 11:09 am

The Panfisher strikes again. Good haul man, very nice fish

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RE:"8" is enough!

Post by Slabking » Wed Mar 24, 2010 8:21 am

:thumright Nice :thumleft:
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RE:"8" is enough!

Post by panfisher » Wed Mar 24, 2010 6:57 pm

Hey SlabKing! Have you been getting any yourself?

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Post by panfisher » Wed Mar 24, 2010 7:08 pm

went down today and fish'd from 5:00- 7:00pm the crappie left the area but i did get two nice pumpkinseed's a couple of perch and a few trout though i did get one crappie on the last few casts from a differnt spot. the wave action is what brought them in to feed and it was calm today.

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Post by Slabking » Thu Mar 25, 2010 9:22 am

panfisher wrote:Hey SlabKing! Have you been getting any yourself?
I've only been out once this spring so far. I was supposed to be testing the boat out for the season but we spotted a few small schools so decided to fish for an hour or so lol. Caught 3 nice ones by drifting jigs under a slip float off a point on Lake Sawyer last week. My first real trip of the season will be to Lake Washington or Sammamish on April 2nd. We'll post a report for sure.

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RE:"8" is enough!

Post by panfisher » Thu Mar 25, 2010 6:50 pm

Looki'n forward to the L.wash> report as I hope to fish for them this year!

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RE:"8" is enough!

Post by t-mac » Mon Mar 29, 2010 2:18 pm

I'm new to WA area and without boat unfortunately.

Would you say Myron is a good lake for fishing off the bank?

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Post by panfisher » Tue Mar 30, 2010 6:13 pm

Myron Lake is a small lake that has good shore access as does Rotary Lake, I-82ponds #1&2,#4&5, #6. for the yakima area.

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Post by t-mac » Tue Mar 30, 2010 6:45 pm

panfisher wrote:Myron Lake is a small lake that has good shore access as does Rotary Lake, I-82ponds #1&2,#4&5, #6. for the yakima area.
Thanks, I was considering going out to I-82 Pond 6 this weekend. Do you know of any success there lately?

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Post by fish2live » Wed Mar 31, 2010 10:06 am

I read your post on the candy jigs, sounds like your always on top of the fish with them, im gonna have to try them out.

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Post by panfisher » Wed Mar 31, 2010 7:55 pm

t-mac wrote:
panfisher wrote:Myron Lake is a small lake that has good shore access as does Rotary Lake, I-82ponds #1&2,#4&5, #6. for the yakima area.
Thanks, I was considering going out to I-82 Pond 6 this weekend. Do you know of any success there lately?
I made a report on pond #6 a few days back catching (14) trout. Again i was checking out the panfish but only trout were biting.

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