Yeah....I know....The sad part is that people never take any out. It's "icky" to most of them. As far as i understand it my semi-retired dad is the only one okay with that, the rest are soccer moms and such. He's been talking about a fish fry since he moved there 5 years ago, and they all look at him funny when he does. yuppies, I guess...nobody spent enough time in the boyscouts.
The walleye Have only been seen on 2 occasions that i know of. Someone spotted one near a dock, and we got one ice fishing, a big monster too.
The pike....well, they were unheard of until a few years ago, when someone dumped Onezey in the lake, now this year they popped up. As people on this forum have pointed out, there could be lots of reasons for this. Personally i think that either a) nobody knew they were there because the bass bit so heavily that they were just missed by angling or b) onezey ate a bunch of bass, plus some of the bass might have died off by other means...and the pike finally are making it past minnow-sized with the pressure off a lil so we are now seeing them hit lures (or in the ice-fishing cases, roaches).
The BG...man they are fat. There was a pond by a hotel in Indiana i went to once that had freakishly large BG, but other than that, and the ones i see on bruce's site, i've never seen BG to compare.
The crappie, although there aren't many that you catch from dad's pier or from the paddleboat, they are fatties as well.
In fact, it is the big, top predators that nobody sees big ones..the pike, the bass etc. Just lil guys, like i said in another thread, skeletor fish.
I'd love to hook into a massive pike in that lake. So far i have the record for biggest fish in weight, a grass carp, but the neighbor chuck (south of dad's house) is the only one who hooked onezey after it got dumped in. And even the fuzzy kodak disposable pic they have of that...man...i would love to wrestle that thing in.
