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Fished Pineview all day today from my kayak. Saw fish all day on the fishfinder at five feet off bottom. Caught half a bushel of crappie - every one exactly 6" long. One of two perch just slightly larger. Kept none. Use a TubeDude jig tipped with worm.
This was weird: almost all the crappie I caught acted "paralyzed" after I unhooked them. I'd drop them into the water and they'd just lay there, mouth wide and body bent into a "C" shape. Wouldn't or couldn't swim. I was able to push one or two of them down and then they'd swim back down, but most just floated away. Seagulls ate well; they got bold enough to swoop down only a few feet from me after a bit.
It was calm until exactly 10:30 and then the wind really kicked up. I managed to pedal all the way to the barriers in the Narrows and drifted back, but it was hard to keep a bait on bottom even with a drift chute out. Nearly an ounce of weight wasn't enough.
On the plus side, my cheese and veggie omelet MRE was tasty. Had the omelet with salsa verde, a cinnamon scone, and some hot cider. Saved the crackers, apple butter, French cappuchino and other stuff for another time.
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I noticed through same thing with the crappie last month too.
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Perhaps they had the bends. How deep of water were you pulling them up from?
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The fish were caught at 35 feet, maximum. Bottom ranged from 38 to 28 where I found fish.
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I've had smaller crappie do that in 35-40 FOW. Some are ok. Some are floaters and the birds become your friends...
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[#0000FF]Glad you got more fish than wind.
Crappies are wimps when it comes to decompression problems. They get the bends from depths that perch can easily survive. And with crappie it is not just the air bladder problem. Their eyes bulge out too and compress brain and nerves. Thus the paralyzing.
If you care about saving them you can rig a 1 oz. sinker with a barbless hook and send the wimps back down until they are deep enough to repressurize. I made up some "perch savers" as in the pic below and they work fine for crappies too.
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But it ain't like Pineview can't afford to lose a few "fly swatter" crappies. Just watch out for those big toothy critters that come up to put them out of their misery. Had one of those last year only a few feet away from me and my inflatable. Scary.
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So you heating up water on your craft? Or firing up a stove back at your road ride?
Sounds like a fun trip - always nice to get into some chunky ones, but a lot of little action can be entertaining. Hmm, wonder where the bigger ones are hiding, or maybe they just couldn't get a chance.
So sounds like the ramps are getting closed? maybe some not all? I gotta get me out for a fall float. This weekend looks like some promise.
Thanks for the report. Pat's Fizzy Kits! I'd guess bigger Crappie probably don't have quite as much trouble as the younglings. Hmmm, Crappie!
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MRE's include a little chemical packet that you just pour a little water in as a catalyst to begin the heating process. You tuck the food package back in the box next to the heat pack and in 5 minutes you have a hot meal.
I love em' but they are very high in calories.
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My first thought was decompression sickness, too. Guess that was the right answer. And I agree that taking a few of those dinksters out of the pool isn't too awful.
You can heat an MRE anywhere (that's kinda the whole point) with the included Flameless Ration Heater. It works just like a chemical hand warmer except it needs water and is a LOT hotter. Those things boil in just seconds. MREs are designed for combat use where guys burn huge amounts of calories. Each one has about 1,400 cals - and three a day is the usual menu. I never eat more than half of what's in one. The one I had yesterday, for example, contained:
Cheese and Veggie omelet
Salsa Verde
Granola with milk and blueberries
Cinnamon scone
French vanilla cappuccino
Crackers
Apple butter
Cider
I had the scone while the omelet and cider heated up, then the omelet with salsa and the cup of cider. Took the rest home.
You can buy "civilian" MREs by the case or by the individual components. They contain the exact same things. I get genuine GI ones at the base commissary, as I'm a military retiree.
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[#800000]Same here on the commissary ones. I use them for cold weather duck hunting and of course ice fishing. Nice going on the fishing.[/#800000]
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So how did the boat ramp look? Curious if I could still launch my 18 footer I/O? Looking to get in at least one more fishing trip from the old girl and Willard is obviously out of the question so was thinking maybe Pineview would be a good idea.
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I pulled a little foot long walleye up from 26' of water on Monday, and his eyes popped out and he couldn't swim back. I guess I won't fish that deep again, though he did make a couple of delicious tacos.
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The ramp at Pineview looked good. They've bulldozed much of the mud away, leaving a wide open area at the bottom for launching. The surface is rough, as usual, but there's still water at the end of it. Docks are still floating but there's a 20-foot gap between the dock and shore; you'll have to beach the boat while you park/fetch your truck.
I saw several boats parked in the dock so folks could fish from it. They seemed to be catching crappie and perch - but all dinks.
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A walleye at Pineview? I had not heard they were in there or were you fishing another lake?
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Welcome to the site Swiftra, who said you couldn't launch at Willard any more? I was just out there on Monday, no problem launching at the North marina.
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Yeah, I was up at Oneida again. I was just surprised that only 26 feet was enough to do that to a walleye.
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Good to hear you are still catching them up there, I had read the DNR were considering putting them in Pineview, that was way I was interested, I was thinking they had done it already.
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WiperHunter2 I should have been a little more clear on Willard and why it's out of the question. I wasn't worried about launching just the fact that the last 3 times I've been out there the smell of skunk was sickening. No matter what I tried nothing worked so time to find another place to go. Thanks for the welcome to the site. Long time lurker short time poster. Everybody thanks for the info on the ramp might be worth the trip.
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Well your right, about the fishing being bad at Willard[frown].
Reelfast and I fished Pineview today and did all right, no problem launching from the Port ramp. We caught nothing big but we did catch some 9" crappie and bass, 7" perch, 13" cats, a lot better than the catching at Willard. It was nice to see some water that was clear as well.
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