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BronzeBak
Blue Gill
Joined: 01 Apr 2008
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Location: Berrien Springs, MI
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 Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 3:16 am Post subject: Perch/Gills/Crappies 4/14 |
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Fished Austin Lake in Portage today for Crappies. Used Minnows under a float mainly, also fished some jig heads with minnows and swam them near the bottom. Anyway we only ended up with one Crappie, but got about a dozen really nice Gill's and at least 2 dozen really nice Perch. Of couse got a bunch of Bass as well, but nothing special. Worked very hard for what we got though. Water temp made 50 degrees at the end of the day and started off first thing in the morning at 46 degrees so it did warm up...
Was a nice change of pace from the last few months of strictly river fishing...
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bronzeback6
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Location: Bridgman, MI
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 12:01 pm Post subject: |
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I love Austin Lake!! In my opinion it's one of the best lakes around becasue I can see every fish before I catch it 
If you want to learn how to sight fish shallow water than Austin is the place to fish.
Nice catch, were the perch big?
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BronzeBak
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Location: Berrien Springs, MI
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 1:35 pm Post subject: |
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The perch were all 10"-11" long that we kept. It was my first time on Austin Lake, but yeah exactly like you said you could see everything and it was all shallow. We got all of our fish in only a couple feet of water, near the only shallow weed bed in the NE corner of the lake. Seen a couple really big Bass swimming around and seen a couple Pike that were pushing 40" by that water inlet pipe, that was causing some current there as it dumped water into the lake. If I would have had anything, but a UL rod and 4 pound line with me I would have been fishing for Pike after I seen those two bruisers hanging around. They had both been caught a few times, judging by the scars on their faces.
We fished the deeper holes of the lake "well deep as far as that lake gets", but never touched a fish out there on the deeper weeds. So we started scoping out the shallows and found that one shallow weed bed, the water was a bit warmer than most of the lake in this spot and there was a lot of fish around it. I don't think that lake is the good Crappie lake the article I read claims it to be though. Maybe we just never found them, I figured because it was so shallow it would be warmer than most of the other lakes in the area and my buddy who I was fishing with lives in K-Zoo so we were stuck to that area.
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bronzeback6
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 1:58 pm Post subject: |
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The Pike you saw may have been Musky. They stock Austin Lake with Musky and I've caught a few there myself.
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BronzeBak
Blue Gill
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Location: Berrien Springs, MI
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| Posted: Tue Apr 15, 2008 3:52 pm Post subject: |
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| bronzeback6 wrote: | The Pike you saw may have been Musky. They stock Austin Lake with Musky and I've caught a few there myself.
Justin |
I knew they were one of the two, but just couldn't see their markings well enough to tell the difference. I just figured they were Pike. Very cool stuff to see anyway.
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profisher
Yellow Perch
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Location: Freeport
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| Posted: Sun Apr 20, 2008 5:53 pm Post subject: |
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| where is this lake located
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TritonTR20
Large"MOUTH" Bass
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Location: South Bend
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| Posted: Mon Apr 21, 2008 2:14 am Post subject: auston |
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| south east of Kalamazoo
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