Went to pumping station last 3 days and killed it. Caught white bass, pike, and catfish all on artificial swim baits. Catfish were also biting good on worms or really anything dropped by the large water outflow. Water has been a little high for this year recently but not really high at all, I think the large rain we had has led to the fishing being there.
Another good year of paddle fishing. Year promised to be great, but didnt quite live up to expectations. However managed to get mom and Ben one and dad got to feel one before it broke off. And of course I got one!
Found some fish over the past week at the state park. Got my uncle onto a nice 16 lb fish, my mom on a few nice fish over several days, and I got one that was just shy of a whopper at 19lbs 10oz. Was a good week of fishing.
Some weird stuff man, so this week I found out you can readily catch cisco and lake whitefish in lewis and clark bay using silver spoon type baits like a swedish pimple or kastmaster jigging spoon. We got several over many days in roughly 7 feet of water but I also found them in deeper water too. The whitefish tended on the bottom while the cisco tended higher into water column all the way to just under the ice. Fun times though and apparently really good eating.
We also caught a random walleye in the bay on a swedish pimple, kinda cool it was a good size at 19.5 in
Fishing has been annoying. I keep looking for big pike and cannot find them. We have had almost 3 weeks of above freezing highs so melt is happening but I cannot find big pike. I catch small ones but nothing crazy. I have been trying all the normal area to no avail. Today I learned some stuff from a internet video and tried it out to catch cisco and I got 1 in lewis and Clark bay so that’s cool. Will keep trying.
Trenton fishing, tried out a spot I have been seeing people at a lot lately, let’s call it the point. It’s the end of the center bank on the far side of the lake right off the sunken tree line. We were fishing from 6 to 9 feet, the basin was 9 ft, and then it jump up to shallow right near shore. We got fish in all areas but right on that ledge seemed really good. Caught lots of fish, pike, walleye, catfish, crappie, and white bass. The “squid” rattle spoon in rainbow worked great.
We caught fish all day, was calm and around 25 degrees. Day before was crazy warm and pretty windy.
Went out on a very windy day. Set up on the north side of lake because of wind. Was in about 9 feet and caught 4 small pike. Maybe would have caught more but I wanted to try and move and that ended up being a bad idea and wind blew me off the ice.
Another good day at Trenton, we got 5 different species today. Walleye, crappie, catfish, pike, and yellow perch. Set up on far side on bend at about 10 ft of water. Dead sticks were king.
Fishing at Trenton today, middle of deepest part of the basin. We must have set up on top of a roving school of white bass because we caught 50 of these guys today. Even having 5 rods go off at the same time. Was up from like 11 to 3.
Caught a bunch of these guys on Trenton, almost all came on a jigging rap. Also got a walleye and a small crappie on dead sticks.