A little late but here is the info. Muddy opened up about 3-4 weeks ago. I think pike may have spawned under ice due to the warm spell earlier. Walleye have been up in the muddy for spawning but I’m unsure of their stage. Lake just opened up this weekend.
Yesterday I caught 2 post spawn pike, 2 catfish and several shiners. Tomorrow I’m heading to the lake to check it out but I know the water is brown so we shall see.
Catfish
Catfishing
Went to try catfishing on the river today. It’s near the end of July which apparently is catfish spawn here. River temp is right at 65-70 degrees and the only fish I could catch was bullhead. I assume they are holed up in their nests, it will be another few weeks before they are biting again.
Whopper catfish
So this spring I went out to west spring lake park because I heard they stocked eater sized trout and catfish in there. Low and behold on nothing but bobber and earthworm I catch a 15 lb 34.5 inch catfish! I bet this monster has been lurking for some time. Date was May 6th on an overcast and cool day.
Early spring fishing
We have had an exceptional early thaw this year. The river opened one week ago and today I am fishing open water at lunds landing and Lewis and Clark. It would seem the walleye are prespawning on the river and people have been doing really well at the pumphouse. Today I fished for pike on sakakawea. Lunds had really low water, I couldn’t find a spot deeper than 5 ft. Managed a small pike slow rolling a minnow but was otherwise dead. It may be to shallow to early. Lewis and Clark however was a different matter. There is still ice on the boat ramp where barley 3 weeks before I caught a 40 in fish through the ice. On the inlet though the water was open and the pike were trolling. I got an ok pike and the guy across from me got a beauty of a fish. Oddly I also caught a large catfish in deep water on a minnow. Weather has been in the 40s and wind was light with mostly sunny skies giving way to clouds.
Catfish on the Muddy
Went out late evening for some catfish, dont know the water temp but its been really warm and the water has come up quite a bit. Managed to get 5 before the mosquitoes ran me off. really light bite but still got them on smelt chunks. No real big ones and the bite was still slow, may yet pick up more.
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Posted from Williston, North Dakota, United States.
Lund’s on Friday
SO went out to Lund’s Landing again. Managed to get 2 average pike and a few more small catfish. It was a bit windy from the south but the bite was pretty stable.
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Posted from Ray, North Dakota, United States.
Early Catfish
Went out to Lund’s Landing again out in the Kayak. Managed two average pike, 4 average catfish, and several shiner. This was the first day I have seen both Catfish and Shiner so they must be moving in. There was a slight wind from the south and fishing was really good right at sunset on the wind side of the water casting deep.
Posted from Ray, North Dakota, United States.
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