Add to the 2006 IB Fish Count Here!
05-06-2006, 10:26 AM
#21
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2006
Location: Lexington, Illinois
Posts: 138
RE: 2006 IB Fish Count.
Howdy Ho!
I went out last night at Evergreen. Not much luck in the shallows in main lake. The carp definitely stopped balling up in the shallows (I'm no expert at this, but I think the key to shooting these fish from the shoreline is to come out mid-day when the sun is out and the water is at its warmest). It got kind of cold, so I went down below the spillway. I ended up with 5 Commons and my first Silver! The silver was only 4 pounds, but boy did it fight! I missed a quite a few, but I still had a blast! I may go back down there tomorrow night. Any takers?
Take Care,
Mikey
I went out last night at Evergreen. Not much luck in the shallows in main lake. The carp definitely stopped balling up in the shallows (I'm no expert at this, but I think the key to shooting these fish from the shoreline is to come out mid-day when the sun is out and the water is at its warmest). It got kind of cold, so I went down below the spillway. I ended up with 5 Commons and my first Silver! The silver was only 4 pounds, but boy did it fight! I missed a quite a few, but I still had a blast! I may go back down there tomorrow night. Any takers?
Take Care,
Mikey
05-06-2006, 05:38 PM
#23
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Too close to Chicago
Posts: 3,337
RE: 2006 IB Fish Count.
I got out again this morning, and got 2 common carp and a small long-nosed gar. Didn't expect to see the predator, but there he was on the end of an arrow.
The gar meat is in the freezer to be grilled up when I get enough of it to screw up a recipe, and the carp meat and entrails are in the freezer to get tilled into my veggie garden next weekend. Ah, renewable resources.
The gar meat is in the freezer to be grilled up when I get enough of it to screw up a recipe, and the carp meat and entrails are in the freezer to get tilled into my veggie garden next weekend. Ah, renewable resources.
05-07-2006, 02:14 PM
#27
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Montgomery IL USA
Posts: 1,231
RE: 2006 IB Fish Count.
Total as of right now...
842 Common Carp
2 DRum (KY)
1 Soonbill (KY)
678 Gar
208 Buffalo
159 BighEADS
8 Bowfin(bowman15 shot one yesterday)
7 Quillback
1 Silver
1 Grassie
3 Mirror
1 Sucker
842 Common Carp
2 DRum (KY)
1 Soonbill (KY)
678 Gar
208 Buffalo
159 BighEADS
8 Bowfin(bowman15 shot one yesterday)
7 Quillback
1 Silver
1 Grassie
3 Mirror
1 Sucker
05-08-2006, 08:50 AM
#28
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2005
Posts: 906
RE: 2006 IB Fish Count.
Well after the great day Johnny and I had saturday we went out last night to the tune of only 2 common carp....cold and muddy water czant figure out the muddy water thing unless boat traffic was high duringf the day...
05-08-2006, 02:26 PM
#30
Super Moderator
Thread Starter
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Central Utah
Posts: 4,815
RE: 2006 IB Fish Count.
We shot 6 commons at the spillway at Evergreen during the day. Everybody seemed to out enjoying the weather. It was too busy to put in the boat on the lake and there wasn't enough room between bankfishers to politely walk around.
At the spillway, it was just us, the carp, a couple of gar, at least one water snake and a bunch of poison ivy and wild parsnip. (I think I saw two silver or bigheads, but I can't be 100%)
Later we went to Dawson. Got there around 11:30pm. Everybody had gone home so we had that lake to ourselves too.
The carp weren't up in huge numbers but they were out. You can get up in the flats now, the water is up.
We shot like poo-poo but still ended up with 14 carp and 1 buffalo that weighed almost 16lbs.
So.. add 20 common carp and 1 buffalo.
At the spillway, it was just us, the carp, a couple of gar, at least one water snake and a bunch of poison ivy and wild parsnip. (I think I saw two silver or bigheads, but I can't be 100%)
Later we went to Dawson. Got there around 11:30pm. Everybody had gone home so we had that lake to ourselves too.
The carp weren't up in huge numbers but they were out. You can get up in the flats now, the water is up.
We shot like poo-poo but still ended up with 14 carp and 1 buffalo that weighed almost 16lbs.
So.. add 20 common carp and 1 buffalo.