Mulberries would be my first choice. That's what they are feeding on under the tree. Some distance from the tree and the mulberry for bait would decrease and the stink bait would take over. I came across this situation one time at the lake I fish. The next year the Corps of Engineers decided to push out brush and trees from the shoreline and took the mulberry tree out. Haven't found another mulberry tree next to the shoreline.
Find a mulberry tree next to the shoreline and when they are ripe and falling into the water, rig up a slip floater on your line about 18" to 24" bait up and catch some channel cats. You can use a mulberry for bait or your own choice.
We had the traditional meal. Seasoned blackeye peas, with a large chunk of ham for further seasoning, hog jowl, seasoned spinach with boiled egg, cornbread and a tall glass of cold buttermilk.
We had the traditional meal. Seasoned blackeye peas, with a large chunk of ham for further seasoning, hog jowl, seasoned spinach with boiled egg and a tall glass of cold buttermilk.
Just a few quick notes to think about from Wikipedia. A cormorant can eat up to 2 lbs. of fish per day. Take a reservoir with 5000 cormorants just eating 1 lb. would equal 5000 lbs. per day, time 7 =35000 lbs., time 30=150,000 lbs., time 3 months, (that's usually the length of time they will be here in the winter) 450,000 lbs. of fish eaten. Do you think that would have any effect on our fish population?
Cormorants are a big problem here in Kansas reservoirs. Being a shoreline fisherman for panfish, bluegills are harder to come by each year, 5 or 6 years ago they were plentiful. I fish the Perry, Ks reservoir and haven't caught a bullhead in 20 years or more. I like the SC problem-solving, 11,653 would make a good start here.
During my high school years use to fish for bowfin. They loved peeled crawdad tails and soft crawdads. Never did care for them as table fare. Their meat would turn to mush, after a short while out of water. They needed to be fried fairly soon after catching. Some people really loved them and would be waiting for the ones I caught. They were hard fighters. I fished on the bottom for them, and their bite was to bring your line in towards you and take it back out. The second time in doing this when the line was tight, set the hook and the fight was on.
I was at Lake Perry yesterday and fished in two different locations. Didn't catch anything and didn't see anybody else catch anything. I stopped at the outlet, and they are letting out around 500 cubic feet per second. Observed 5 fisherman fishing and not catching anything.
I haven't fished the KAW lately, but used green worms. Normally, if a person looks around the edge of the bank near the water person can see where they have been working in the soil and are able to dig them fairly easily. Green worms are good for channel cat, flathead, carp, and drum. You never really knew what was in store when hooking a fish. Best of luck.....
I was out again this morning fishing from the bank using live minnows. Evidently, crappie isn't in yet, didn't. catch anything and fishermen in the boat were nearby and didn't notice any action there either. I would think anytime the spawn would be on???????????