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couple walleyes the other day; they had a lot of fat layers when I cleaned them, indicating they
have been well fed.

Marilyn Black (Cochranton); filed 10-27: Darl and I headed over for crap-
pie fishing. It started out slow, picking up one crappie here and there along
creek edge stumps. I had to take a conference call on my cell phone right
at lunch time – so Darl moved the boat to a different spot out of the wind.
That’s when the crappies decided to bite. I’m talking on the phone with

representatives from a dozen different Heritage Parks watching Darl
setting the hook on crappie after crappie. With phone in one hand and net
in the other, I’m landing the bigger ones. When the business call was done,
so was the crappie bite! I did manage to pick up a couple crappies and my
first legal Pymatuning walleye of the year. Drop shotting Bobby Garland
Marilyn Black
Baby Shads in 17 to 22 feet of water took all the crappies as well as the
walleye. (See photos)

Jim McClave (Andover); filed 10-26: We had a good day at the South
End of Pymatuning Lake. We caught a few nice-size crappies and some
decent perch. We got them in about 20 feet of water over structure by
jigging live minnows. With leaves changing color, it was a beautiful day
on the water. (See photo)
Jim McClave photo

Conneaut Lake

Darl Black (Cochranton); filed 11-4: Longtime fishing buddy Dave Lehman
had been catching some nice largemouth bass in past couple weeks at
Conneaut. The first week of November has usually been a good time for
me to tag a couple BIG Conneaut Lake smallmouths. So we got together for
a day of trophy hunting. However, apparently the trophy fish didn’t get the
email that we would be on the lake. Fished deep and shallow on some of

our most productive banks without hooking a serious fish. I did manage to
9-inch Smallmouth
land two smallmouths from a school I observed on my Garmin GSPMAP
unit on a break in 17 to 22 feet. I caught them on old Silver
Lucky blade bait. Problem was both fish were only 8 to 9
inches. After two small smallies, we left the school alone.
Most exciting thing I can show you is what a school of 9 inch
smallmouth look like sitting on a break below a school of
baitfish! (See photos)

What a school of 9-inch smallies look like