Fletchers Pond Jigging For Panfish 

😊😊👊 thank you so much John!!! That means alot to me

😊🙌 thank you!!! That means alot to me

Hey!!!! Shoot I wish I would have run into you while I was there! I always love running into people when I'm fishing. I'm planning on leaving for the UP as soon as I possibly can. Probably monday or Tuesday. I want to shoot s musky video up there. I hope you guys are having a great trip up here!

LT, thank you for responding. I'm heading ausable river today. Any recommendations for a good place to fish. So far, not much luck.

It's tough this time of year it should be getting better soon with the cooler temps. Not sure where you are on the AuSable but I prefer above the dams this time of year

Its always worth while! Tons of fish in there and some huge bass

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Absolutely brother 🙌👊

Definitely way too many, I feel like the pike population is too far down. I've never seen as many small ones in there as I have this year. Even in the spring. Millions of small ones on beds and that's never a good sign of a healthy population

@@LTOutdoors15 I agree I’m worried about the future of the lake.

Same here. I think they took way too many pike out of there and now there isn't enough to keep the population in check. I'm tempted to keep limits of small ones and fry them up just to help that system out

@@LTOutdoors15 I took a meal of small ones because I was camping and wanted a meal of fish. Those little ones taste good!! Lol

Absolutely!!! Can't be picky if they average that small lol

Thank you so much!!! And welcome to the channel!!! I appreciate your kindness and support 🙌 I try my best to keep it upbeat and always strive to be better. I hope you enjoy the adventures!!! And thanks for the donation 🙌🙌🙌

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Thanks!!! Its really a shame. Too many predators have been taken out of the system. We caught over 200 small fish this day.

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What depth? Are you actually seeing marks on your finder?

@@lueapeter5900 out in the channel so I'm only in 5-7' of water. Theres too many weeds and logs for me too see them on my graph, mostly use it for depth out there

😊🙌👊 thanks brother

Just my aluminum boat lol

This is true. There used to be an abundance of large gills. They're definitely getting stunted now from overpopulation.

Have you noticed that the perch in that lake have those tan worms in the meat? I have yet to catch one that hasn't had any

Yeah it's only because it's a muddy lake. All muddy body of waters will have that issue. They come from the waterfowl feces

@@LTOutdoors15 I see. I thought all this time they came from the blue herons

@@craigwagner327 nope, ducks and geese have a parasite in their poop that causes this issue in our fish. Never anything to worry much about I always look at it as more protien 😂

Was a few years back. It's getting over fished for all the predator species

They are stunted for sure. There should never be that many small fish in any system

I found out they had it as no minimum size limit on pike for a few years. I wondered why the pike fishing got so slow. Having low pike numbers can really hurt a system like that

Thats a hell of a pike fishery if its managed right. Sad they messed it up

I couldn't agree more. I was so shocked we didnt even have a pike bite us off. Used to be so many and so many quality fish. Theres a ridiculous amount of boats out there daily though and most have no sense of conservation

​@@LTOutdoors15Plus, a couple of the businesses on the lake were encouraging killing every bowfin caught, bowfin really key on small bluegill

Fletchers is overpopulated with bluegills anymore the populations are out of whack due too people keeping too many predator fish out of there. I haven't caught big gills in there in years. Still good crappies but gills are stunted

@@LTOutdoors15 ok thanks

Are there still good numbers of predator fish? Hopefully those don't decline

Nope, actually the decline of them is why bluegills got messed up. Mostly started from people killing all the dogfish, between them and pike they keep populations of panfish where they're meant to be. Didn't help that the one tackle shop was telling everyone to kill them....pike fishing hasn't been anything like it used to be. It's a shame. Still great bass in there but they can't keep the bluegills in check. I sure hope it comes back to where it should be

@@LTOutdoors15 they need to put a slot limit on the northerns or do a tip up ban just for a few years