Lived on Morse for 15 yrs, sold home last year, lake too crazy! Way overpopulated and boats wall to wall most weekends and evenings.
You can catch fish, mostly catfish if that's your thing. 10 years ago could do well fishing for crappie and bass. Not so well past few years. They still haver bass tournaments on Morse, so there are bass.
Whatever you catch, would not advise eating anything from Morse. Several DWL warnings in recent years. Even toxic blue green algae.
Good luck!
water mellon red flukes and senkos! And of course, red rattle traps before 8 and after 4:30 as long as it is overcast and water moving.................
Went to local pond due to weather forecast. Caught three decent LM on senko. Best probably 3lb. Weather in mid Indiana hasn't been stable so sporadic spawning activity as far as I can tell.
My best tool is a journal I kept for years. At the end of each day I would record weather pattern, temp, water temp, wind direction, cow behavior etc. I did this religiously so I could hold to memory what fishing was like under certain conditions and what I used and where I fished to catch em.
As a true measure of the success of this very inexpensive tool, I once was fishing Toledo Bend during a Bass n Gals tournament. My fishing buddy and I limited out (16 keepers) about 50 fish caught. Watched the weigh-in that afternoon, total winning weight that day was 24lbs. Our top five would have easily been 35lbs.
Had nice Triton boat with fish finder etc but most useful tool that day was recalling direction of wind and moving to a place where we hammered them under similar conditions......
Agree red is wrong and that these are mighty big for wacky rigs. Larger hooks affect action of bait. Smaller straight thin hooks best.
70 yrs old been bass fishing since 7. Tried using red hooks when they first came out. Thought they might add flash? Wrong! Stopped using a year later. Probably still have 60 % of those I purchased.
Fishing is my thing. Strap my 19' tourney version Triton to my 4 Runner every spring and fall, pick up my fishing buddy in Paducah KY and head to ....... Texas, Alabama, Carolinas, Florida, Tennessee, etc
Have house on Lake Barkely!
But never caught any perch. Plenty of other fish, you name it. Once landed 25 lb striper, even 40 lb snapping turtle.
Fished Pendleton twice a year 7 days at a time. Drive 16 hours one way to get here. Stayed at Bridge Bay Resorts. Great people back then.
Great tamales in Zwolle! Been there many many times but been a while. TB, my all time fav place to bass fish!!!
Several years ago while fishing Toledo Bend in East Texas my fishing buddy and I idled over the the opposite side of the lake, Louisiana side. It was getting close to dusk, I threw out a red rattle trap. Typical for us onthe lake that time of day. The second the trap hit the water I felt a load. Snapped the rod to set the hook and the battle was on. Fish took off for deep water and pulled drag until my reel was nearly bare. By this time the fish had jerked several times with such force it brought me to me knees. With my line all but exhausted my buddy turned the boat in the direction the fish was traveling in the hope that eventually it would tire. There was one last jerk by the fish then nothing. When I retrieved my lure the treble hook at the tail of the trap was gone. On that last jerk the fish had stretched the ring holding the treble hook.
To this day I have no ideal what that fish might have been. Maybe a huge stripper known for that lake........