My P/S Juice in 2025

 2025 was a bounce back after tougher fishing in 2024. Platte Lake is on the road to recovery after the winterkill in 2023. Here is where I caught my fish in 2025. Primarily bass and pike. The number in the circle is the number of fish caught there.

First up is for the trips I fished in both lakes during the trip.

My Platte map shows I caught a bunch of fish off the dock, which is on the East side of the lake. That the fishing on F Flat has gone to crap, and that Big West Bay was more than just a flash in the pan. Big West was alive with life. And that I caught a fair number of fish on docks, which hardly happened in 20204.

And lastly, there is Sullivan, which doesn't get many trips all by itself: 

My Juice In 2024

 I do not in any way attribute the disappointing fishing I experienced this year to me sharing my "Juice" last year. This year was just off. The Jumpin Bullhead bite was off at the Grumpy Old Man Hole. The frog and topwater bite were a struggle. 2024 was just off. 

Here is my Juice for 2024

2024 Platte/Sullivan Trips Fish Caught

Sullivan Only Trips

Platte Only Trips

Platte Lake was just brutal for me this year.

Here is the Juice for me in 2024. Where I did my ice fishing:

Sure the panfish and pike are small for the most part, but I got a lot of action.

Platte/Sullivan Juice, Part 2

 As promised here are my fishing heat maps for Sullivan Lake, Platte Lake, and Platte/Sullivan telling the general area where I caught all my fish in 2023 and 2022. Platte froze out in 2023, so I fished there a lot less frequently this year. 

2023

Many more trips were taken to only Sullivan in 2023 and I expanded the areas fished.

2022

The two farthest West dots on this map are shore spots.

Platte 2023

Platte Only Trips 2022
A Good Year for F Flat

Bonus 2021 Map
(I put the Fish Swami App on my phone in July of 2021)

Trips In Which I fished both Lakes in 2023

Both Lakes 2022

Both Lakes 2021

Giving Up My Platte/Sullivan Juice For 2023

I just discovered that the Fish Swami App offers me yearly, monthly, and hourly maps of the general location of the fish I caught in the time frame of my choosing. There is no breakdown for fish species, but this year I was pretty much a 50/50 split between pike and bass this year. So here is where I caught them in 2023. 

This map was my Platte/Sullivan trips in which I fished both lakes.

Just my Platte Lake trip fish numbers

My Only Sullivan Lake trip fish numbers

In the coming days, I will do a post contrasting where I caught fish in 2023 vs. 2022, when I mainly was still fishing in Platte Lake.

Platte/Sullivan Trips: 922 fish caught

Platte Lake Trips: 345 fish caught (Probably 80/20 split pike to bass)

Sullivan Lake Trips: 404 fish caught.

 

A Little Heads Up For Bass Pundit Readers

Major League Fishing gives away the juice.  And when I say they give away the juice, I'm talking waypoints, lures used, size of fish and time of day for each anglers catch all on Google Maps/Earth.

I was unable to locate the dock that Evers caught his 5lber off of on Pokegama.  Maybe you will have better luck than me at finding it.  Good Luck.

They don't have the round that KVD fished up yet or maybe I'm just not finding that info.  Using the MLF website can be a bit tricky to get the info you want.