Where did all the people go? (Lake Henshaw)

We started fishing Lake Henshaw a month a go for Crappie. The first 2 weeks were pretty crowded down there with both shore and boat anglers. When then took the week off of April 24-25 because of wind. We then returned back to the lake May 2 to find a ghost town of anglers. Had the bite completely shut off in the week we missed I feared. That day we were the first anglers there, followed by our friend Marvelous Marvin and only 3 other anglers were there in line when they opened. (never a good sign in fishing!) So we first headed out to our Lucky Bush spot, where we had caught the majority of our fish in the two previous trips. I got bit on the first cast on a nice Crappie and promptly framed it! Racer X got bit on the inside pretty fast too, so the Crappies haven't gone anywhere! Marvelous Marvin was fishing the Rock piles and was getting bit too. We left the Lucky Bush spot with 4 farmed Crappies and 6 missed bites! We did land 4 Crappies and a very strange Catfish. (so we couldn't complain about lack of action) Once we meet up with Marvelous Marvin at the Rock piles, we started to put a decent day together on landed Crappies, plus 1 decent LMB.

Fast forward to Sunday May 9 2021. Yes it was Mothers Day, but the Crappies are still biting! Lol Not wide open by any means, but a reasonable day of fishing with Minnows will get you about 25 bites on Crappies and Bass for the boat. Is 25 bites enough to make serious anglers want to go fishing at Lake Henshaw? The answer is Noooooooo! When we got there on Sunday May 9 2021, we were all alone at the Lake except for 2 drunk teenagers who decided to go fishing. They were pretty funny to listen too, tripping out at all the jumping Carp! Since their was nobody else fishing the lake except those 2 drunk kids. I decided to do some exploring the lake for some new spots. After fishing there 3 times this year, I kinda know what a good Crappie spot at that lake looks like. Sure enough in a new spot I never fished before, it was loaded with Crappies. I caught 4 quick ones in a row and Racer X was properly taking care of them for eating. When Disaster struck and he lost his stringer with 3 Crappies on it. That kinda screwed it up for him, as he spent part of the next hour trying to get his stringer back! We caught a few more there and moved on. By the end of the day, we had double digits on the Crappies landed and 3 or 4 LMB boated too! Racer X bite to hook ratio was terrible today. But we still took home plenty of Crappies and I caught one so big, "I had to let her go!" Lol

Racer X texted me when he cleaned the Crappies. Most of them still had eggs inside of them! So they haven't all spawned yet and that means their still going to be in the shallow water. (which means easier to catch) If anyone is interested in catching some Crappies, Lake Henshaw isn't done yet! Send me a pm if you want to know where we caught them. They still can be caught in a boat or on shore.

By the way, the lake is making some improvements to their rental fleet. New motors on some of the boats and a brand new Pontoon boat available for rent. (it's very nice)

Aren't you supposed to release the females ?

Yes, I believe you are supposed to do that. I see it in most videos I watch. Great fishing.

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Originally Posted by Theos

Aren't you supposed to release the females ?

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Here is the weird part about Crappies this whole season. At 4 different lakes, Irvine, Isabella, Cachuma and Henshaw. Most of the fish who people took home, reported they were females with eggs. I personally let a majority of my Crappies go this season. However, I'm in the minority at all lakes! I not just in the Minority, I never saw another person at any lake, "EVER" let a Crappie go except me!

So by you asking that question, I can tell you didn't do much Crappie fishing this year! Lol

I normally never say anything about this, but I believe that is quite misguided about releasing female Crappie or any sunfish species, and keeping the males during spawning season. It is actually the male sunfish which guards the nest and is thus more necessary to having a successful batch of babies. A male sunfish is typically worn out by his parenting duties, and thus probably only spawns with one female per year, or at most a few. However, it would be best to ask a fisheries biologist about this topic. I generally don't consider gender in whether to keep fish or not, as they typically spawn in pairs, so keeping relatively equal numbers of males and females probably does the least to hurt their spawning success and avoiding a deficit in either male or female fish.

Also, it can be difficult to determine a fish's gender just by looking at it, although there are usually tell tale signs during spawning season. We caught a couple of large Redears last month that appeared to be egg-laden females, but were actually revealed to be fat males upon cleaning them.

eTucks,

You're like the reporter on the ground giving us the play by play.

Glad you've been whacking the craps out there. They're definitely fun to catch when you find a nice school. I used to fish a lake down south that used to have some huge craps, and it was usually bycatch from trying to catch bass. That's how big those fish where, that they ate regular bass baits without any problems.

Nothing like catching them on spinnerblades.

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Originally Posted by DarkShadow

eTucks,

You're like the reporter on the ground giving us the play by play.

Glad you've been whacking the craps out there. They're definitely fun to catch when you find a nice school. I used to fish a lake down south that used to have some huge craps, and it was usually bycatch from trying to catch bass. That's how big those fish where, that they ate regular bass baits without any problems.

Nothing like catching them on spinnerblades.

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Thanks for the kind words! Lol

Yup, thanks for all the updates you're posting. Fun to read them, it's as of we're there as well. Keep safe!

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Originally Posted by TheLuckyAngler

You must be from the former AGSS satellite office? These nuts in your mouth! Really, though, AGSS can SUCK MY or A D.I.C.K! AVSHIN, seriously, you slanky old man who thinks he's all that but doesn't even know how to play soccer, KILIRIS KEZ you fake wannabe soccer player! How many pro players did your club produce when you had all those teams in various age levels with only one coach who didn't even know anybody's names and all he did was, "yeah, yeah, yeah, this and that" and act like a coach. Bro, get real. Have passion. Get to know your players. Don't just take $1000s of dollars, buy brand name sweats and gear for your players, and call it a club team. Get a life buddy. We could all smell your S.H.I.T. I hated your club quite honestly. No one on our team even liked you any way. Maybe one or two players but that was about it. Get a F.U.C.K.I.N.G. life buddy and learn how to coach! Business per usual bozi tsnund! Mi ban unes aselu? Nothing new here. Kutes? Kiliris kutes, bozi tsanund, that what! Get a F.U.C.K.I.N.G life! Catch a bluegill or a crappie or something and radit kashi! Fake fool.

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Must be an Arsenal fan. :LOL:

is it possible that you have consumed to much contaminated fish and are in the advanced stages of dementia do to heavy metal and mercury poisoning
sounds like you have also been there and done that

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Originally Posted by capoisok

is it possible that you have consumed to much contaminated fish and are in the advanced stages of dementia do to heavy metal and mercury poisoning
sounds like you have also been there and done that

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I'm not a fish eater, so we can rule that out as my cause of insanity! Lol

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Originally Posted by TheLuckyAngler

Was it because I slipped and fell that one day during that 6 v 6 co-ed soccer game at the Glendale Sports Complex while you were standing next to that short Asian woman who was recording with her camera? Note, I had never played on artificial grass before so I wearing the wrong type of cleats (use regular soccer cleats, even for artificial turf).

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Seriously, you arrived at a match without knowing what type of surface you were going to be playing on? Hell, any 10-year-old midfielder worth his salt would have figured that out ahead of time. And it's not like you couldn't have done a quick check on their website, which would have given you that info.

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Originally Posted by TheLuckyAngler

Did they tell you I hit the post from 20 yards out during the first 6 v 6 co-ed game and if the goal was a little bigger, it would've went in? Or those passes I delivered that go straight to your feet from 20 yards out? Did they tell you I scored 4 goals before the end of the 2nd quarter during my time playing for AYSO? [...] Or did they tell you about all those hat tricks and game winning goals I've scored? Or what about all those howitzers that almost went through the net? Or those corner kick and half-field goals?

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Wow, all this natural talent and you haven't been picked up by the L.A. Galaxy yet?

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P.S. Where is the real TheLuckyAngler, and what have you done with him???

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Originally Posted by Panshot

Seriously, you arrived at a match without knowing what type of surface you were going to be playing on? Hell, any 10-year-old midfielder worth his salt would have figured that out ahead of time. And it's not like you couldn't have done a quick check on their website, which would have given you that info.



Wow, all this natural talent and you haven't been picked up by the L.A. Galaxy yet?

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P.S. Where is the real TheLuckyAngler, and what have you done with him???

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I love that p.s. part! I re read every comment Lucky Angler made before this tie raid. Every comment he made before was nothing but good positive comments like you would want to read. So what happened??????

must have ingested
much too much

bad fish

it all added up over time

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Originally Posted by etucker1959

So what happened??????

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Maybe he got into Roy's stash.

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Originally Posted by DarkShadow

Maybe he got into Roy's stash.

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Either that or some bathing salts!

Seriously though, these recent posts do seem out of character for TheLuckyAngler.

I'll bet a shiny quarter his account got hacked/hijacked by a bitter co-worker.

Or perhaps a vindictive son who got his BMW taken away.

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Originally Posted by Panshot

Or perhaps a vindictive son ...

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Maybe there's a vindictive printer working for him?

https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/cc92762...2-ac4fa9fa4e4f

Mercury poisoning from fish
Methylmercury (organic mercury) poisoning is largely linked to eating seafood, mainly fish. Toxicity from fish has two causes:

eating certain types of mercury-containing fish
eating too much fish

LuckyAngler's comments are now missing from this thread. Has he been removed from this site? If not, he should be. I just noticed a nasty message from him in my notifications, but it was from 3 days ago, and it was sent at 3-something in the morning (suggesting a very different time zone or a manic troll). This is definitely troll behavior. I said nothing whatsoever to him, but he messaged me as though I had. I would be surprised if he didn't send nasty messages to a bunch of other people as well.

Nothing sent to me. Yeah, that's odd. Maybe there was a complaint about him as well and he got removed from the forum.

I was looking for how to contact the administration of this site in order to notify them of LuckyAngler's message, but I could not find how to do that, so I commented here. It's strange that I couldn't find any way to contact them, because I have done so a couple of times in the past. In any case, I do think his unhinged comments got their attention.

Some thing happened wish I new but don’t hope he is ok. Did like his post notice someone not posting on this?

I got a nice PM from him too.

I invited him to go out fishing with me next time but he never responded.

DS, are you being sarcastic when you say it was a nice PM? His PM to me was a threat for some imagined insult that I never threw his way. But it may not really be the same guy.

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Originally Posted by Natural Lefty

DS, are you being sarcastic when you say it was a nice PM? His PM to me was a threat for some imagined insult that I never threw his way. But it may not really be the same guy.

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Oh yeah, i say 'nice' because he was nice enough to use a lot of asterisks.

And I looked back and he was one of the few people I haven't insulted as of late. So I was extremely confused myself.

Hi Lefty, good topic and insight. I have fished Lake Perris a lot in the last few years and have not seen a redear for a few years. Was your red ear at LP?