04-30-2019, 04:39 PM
[#0000FF]Mantua was one of the few waters open to ice fishing in the late 70s. I fished it with only a couple of things. My most successful was a 1.5" chartreuse twister on an 1/8 oz. hot red head...with no bait. I fished mostly for planter rainbows but did catch a few crappies on the same lures. The crappies were usually about 10 - 12 inches.
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[#0000FF]One spring I was going down to the lake after ice out, near the turnstile at the far eastern corner of the lake. As I approached where a small trickle spring was running in I could see several crappies of that size soaking up the sun in very shallow water. But they had "lip glue". No biters.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]There were some big bass and some big trout in there also. But whenever we hooked up on big fish they usually broke our light cheap lines on the ice.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]At one point they planted some Kamloops rainbows in there and for a couple of years the fly flingers had a ball. But the lake proved to get too warm for that species and they didn't make it.
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[#0000FF]One spring I was going down to the lake after ice out, near the turnstile at the far eastern corner of the lake. As I approached where a small trickle spring was running in I could see several crappies of that size soaking up the sun in very shallow water. But they had "lip glue". No biters.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]There were some big bass and some big trout in there also. But whenever we hooked up on big fish they usually broke our light cheap lines on the ice.[/#0000FF]
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[#0000FF]At one point they planted some Kamloops rainbows in there and for a couple of years the fly flingers had a ball. But the lake proved to get too warm for that species and they didn't make it.
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