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.
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.
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.
Took the boat out of 4 bears down to Hunts Along bay today for the first time looking for smallies. Did not find many of them, 3 total on the day, but did catch a lot of 12-16 inch walleye in 9 to 12 ft of water on spinners and worms. Also lots of small pike. Water was stained but not bad. It was also a large fishing tourney today where they did catch bigger fish so just gotta find them.
We kept 6 of those smaller eyes, along with a drum, 2 white bass, 1 smallmouth, 2 perch.
Father’s Day! Went to Van hook this time and fished the northern most part of the arm and the west side. Learned some things,caught some fish, including 3 catfish on rattletraps! Biggest was a pike at 10 lbs.
Water was not as clear as I thought it would be and the river portion we drove over looked pretty muddy too but I’m not sure.
Took the boat out with amanda, was a nice 70 degree day but was pretty windy. Water temp was 52 degrees. We only got 1 walley in 8 ft of water on a green Lindy minnow and that was this 7 lb whopper for amanda. Otherwise we caught some small pike and white bass. Was pretty slow for everyone it seemed.
Haley and I finally managed to get on some pike at Lewis and Clark today. She got her biggest fish at 12lbs and we got a lot of smaller ones too. Also some white bass. The next day was the same. Also 2 nice cat fish were caught, 1 each day.
We were down near the marina on the shallow side of the bay, seemed like some good action there. Water temp was around 50 degrees.
Went back to lunds again on the 19th and got next to nothing. It was colder and sunny. Today though it was our first 70 degree and warm day with warmer windy days the last 3 and it paid off! I must have caught 20 white bass and a 20 inch walleye. Rooke also got a nice 8 lb pike.
I also got my first pike on the fly!! And on my fly