This morning I was out with the WVU Bass Team in the 20mph winds and sideways rain dragging some of the 315 Christmas trees that we moved from a boat ramp down into what will be about 10-20FOW in Tygart lake once the lake is brought up to normal pool this spring. Exhausted would be an understatement to describe how I felt after that, but my friend and I decided we would just keep it going and we headed to the river once we got back to campus. The wind was blowing 15-20mph and air temps were in the low 40s, a far cry from what we experienced this week, but we found some protected water by a lock&dam, where we proceeded to have a very nice afternoon of fishing!

 

Most of the fish came on 1/4oz blade baits, but some fell victim to a 3" grub on a 1/8-1/4oz jighead. We landed 20 sauger, 6 walleye, and 4 jumbo perch.

 

This is the biggest sauger I have caught so far at 17.5"

This perch was 13" long and FAT!

 

 

Looks like a decent & productive outing.

Congrats

"Cue the Hot Fat"

A-Jay

 

 

1 hour ago, A-Jay said:

Looks like a decent & productive outing.

Congrats

"Cue the Hot Fat"

A-Jay

 

 

Next year once we are out of dorms next year we will definitely be using nature's grocery store. Lots of tasty critters have been turned loose this semester and last!

1 minute ago, everythingthatswims said:

Next year once we are out of dorms next year we will definitely be using nature's grocery store. Lots of tasty critters have been turned loose this semester and last!

 

Solid plan -

The management does seem to frown if you repeatedly set off those smoke / fire alarms

A-Jay

Nice! Never caught a Sauger but that looks like a TOAD of one to me...big as a good sized walleye.

Dude that perch is bigggg. 

Yum!