Beautiful morning. Pleasant temps, light wind, almost did not need the heater.
Had my camera in the water and was able to sort thru the fish as I caught them. I'd pull the bait away from the Bluegills in hopes of enticing the Crappies. Released many smaller ones back to the water for another day.
Brought home a nice mess ranging from 9 inches to 11.5 inches in length. Fun time watching them come up and chase the bait on camera.

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Take care, Huntindave McCann SHELL ROCK IA. ,,,,,, "As sailors grow older, the wiser ones move to smaller boats." Thomas Firth Jones, Multihull Voyaging

looks like a pretty crappy day to me.

ahahahahahahahaha

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Carl
Mobile, AL
DHBP Member since 1998

"Life is too short to drink bad beer."
Disclaimer: This post and/or report is not a substantiation of or reflection on the true accuracy of the present surveying methods. It is only a report on or comment concerning local observation and/or results. Your results and observation may vary based on your location, local water conditions, food supply, weather conditions and migratory patterns "

Carl,
Don't quit your day job.

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Take care, Huntindave McCann SHELL ROCK IA. ,,,,,, "As sailors grow older, the wiser ones move to smaller boats." Thomas Firth Jones, Multihull Voyaging

Looks pretty good to me Dave. Something about cold water panfish, I just love the flavor. Yum?.

Dave something about that just doesn't square. Or were you getting a precisely square hole?

At least that one is better than Carl's remark! (made me smile)

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Take care, Huntindave McCann SHELL ROCK IA. ,,,,,, "As sailors grow older, the wiser ones move to smaller boats." Thomas Firth Jones, Multihull Voyaging

Tod,
Yep, and folks wonder why fish on commercial boats are immediately thrown on ice, rather than drug around on a stringer.

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Take care, Huntindave McCann SHELL ROCK IA. ,,,,,, "As sailors grow older, the wiser ones move to smaller boats." Thomas Firth Jones, Multihull Voyaging

Well we know you were a precision machinist.

Dave, you had a wonderful day fishing. What is your limit per day? I just want you to know it was darn hard to type this post to you because I'm still laughing about what the others wrote. I have to admit that this is the very first time in my life, I have ever seen a fish measured like that. Do you carry a tape measure for those 40"+ northerns?
Allan

On a more serious note, why did you not want the bluegills?
I love fried or baked bluegills, just scale, gut & cook!

What kind of jig & bait?

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Carl
Mobile, AL
DHBP Member since 1998

"Life is too short to drink bad beer."
Disclaimer: This post and/or report is not a substantiation of or reflection on the true accuracy of the present surveying methods. It is only a report on or comment concerning local observation and/or results. Your results and observation may vary based on your location, local water conditions, food supply, weather conditions and migratory patterns "

Brad,
(A) We all know one can get a bigger fish up thru a square hole than the same sized round hole.
(B) Round holes are for amateurs; it takes a highly skilled operator to auger a square hole in the ice.

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Take care, Huntindave McCann SHELL ROCK IA. ,,,,,, "As sailors grow older, the wiser ones move to smaller boats." Thomas Firth Jones, Multihull Voyaging

Al,
The limit here is 25 per day.
For Muskie, I bring along a drywall square.

I just used the speed square because I was home, it was handy, and it showed up well against the snow. It sure was a tough sell with this crowd!

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Take care, Huntindave McCann SHELL ROCK IA. ,,,,,, "As sailors grow older, the wiser ones move to smaller boats." Thomas Firth Jones, Multihull Voyaging

Carl,

Due to the available size of the Bluegills. In my area large Crappie are more abundant than large Bluegill. I use the same cleaning method on both species, fillet everything. I'm not real fast but I don't leave any meat behind.

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Take care, Huntindave McCann SHELL ROCK IA. ,,,,,, "As sailors grow older, the wiser ones move to smaller boats." Thomas Firth Jones, Multihull Voyaging

Dave you must be referring to using the hypotenuse of the Piscisoran Theorem. Yes a larger fish could be brought through a square hole that a round hole of equal radius or center point/midline distance. This makes a great deal of sense when fishing for flat fish or panfish.

As a woodworker I?m sure you seen square mortises cut with a round bit in a square chisel. It wouldn?t surprise me to have you fabricate a square hole ice auger. And you are the square operator who could pull it off.