ON the board!

Ok..ok.. so it's a carp. Hey, at least we were out there catching (ok..ok..so it was accidentally snagged) something as we hiked around looking at what waters are open. I caught one ( ok..ok..so I snagged one too) that was about half the size of the brute Mike is holding up.
Half the waters we checked were open. It all depends on the incoming water source. If the incoming water is slow then it may take another day or two, but the ones where there is a stream coming in where open. Look for lakes or ponds with a storm drain pipe inflow..those will turn on first!
In lakes that have shad in them, as many do around here, you'll start seeing them in the extreme shallows right after ice out. We were locating huge schools in the thawed out incoming streams and were targeting any bass that may already be following them up stream or hanging out at the mouth of the incoming water source. While we didn't find any bass with Husky Jerks and Rattle Traps, we did find a couple of carp.
So..let's sum it up. Lakes are thawing. Shad are coming in. Crappies and bass wont be far behind (2 weeks of nice weather and the fish will be ON). Oh..and there's some carp milling around the shallows.

And yes, Mike really IS that attractive. Heh heh.

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