7/9 Lake Mercer 7/10 Assunpink Creek

[pacrags]

Got up before early and made it to the county park at sunrise and walked the banks of Lake Mercer for the first time to see if it would be a good spot to bring my 11 yo Daughter and 7 yo son - they are not too keen on lots of walking.

Pretty windy day with the water blowing in to the bank i was on. Only manage one small LMB, 3 perch and a couple of shiners that were as big as 2 of the smaller perch

Afterwards a I took a ride down hughes drive over to where the Miry Run is dammed up to scout it also, As i have never been there either but had heard about it from another fisherman i ran into earlier this year. Did see one rather large fish jump (prb a Carp) across the way and quite a few fish risin but didnt get a nibble in the 20 minutes there.

Tonight I had an hour or so before dark to fish, and headed back to the assunpink spillway to target carp. Set up 1 rod with corn while alternated between my throwing a small kastmaster spoon and a rapala jointed minnow while waiting for a bite. Managed to get one small white crappie on the spoon before catching a pair of carp the first about 24" and the second around 21". the boxes in the pictures are 9" apiece for reference.

Unfortunately I only was able to fish for 30 minutes as I had to make an emergency visit to walmart to get aforementioned daughter a replacement birthday present for the one that was supposedly delivered today.