Cabezon

Thanks, I must have not been in the right place at the right time because that was a first for me.

We were anchored and night fishing Thursday night and the Mayflies started hatching all around us. They were floating on the surface as far as we could see. I have been fishing Stockton for many years and have never seen that here. I thought that happened more farther north. Is that common for this area?

Caught this one several years ago

That was a battle. Had only been trolling about 5 minutes when it hit.

I tried cubing the fillets and boiling them with Old Bay seasoning added to the water. Then dipping them in cocktail sauce. I prefer coating them with yellow cornmeal and Tony Chachere's Creole seasoning and deep frying them.

Started at Stockton State Park Marina and trolled towards the dam.

Caught these fish trolling Bandits from 7:00 am till noon in about 20' of water.

I e-mailed the MDC to find out if they were going to put in any new brush piles close to Stockton State Park and they replied and sent me the coordinates for 35 new brush piles in the Masters and Cedar ridge area. I thought some of you would like to have this info. Stockton Lake brush piles 2017.xlsx

Years ago I caught a lot of trout trolling spoons in this area. Going to be fishing this area in a few days and I'm looking for a few pointers to catch some fish this time of year.

I netted a 32" walleye for an older man around 1990 in Turnback Creek. We saw him the next day and He said it weighed 12 lbs and it tasted good.

Thanks for all your help.

Is there anyplace to rent a boat at Rockaway Beach or Forsyth? Years ago I used to rent boats at both places, but nothing is coming up when I google it.

Went yesterday. Bluebird day, barely a ripple on the water. Trolled Flicker shads for awhile, no luck. Switched to Fat Free shads to get deeper, tried different amounts of line out and different speeds. Gave up and went back to the dock and caught enough Bluegill to have some fish to eat.

Thanks for the info. We are going Saturday. I will post how we do.

I was wondering how deep do you normally troll this time of year? I have tried trolling crank baits this time of year without much success. Do you try to tick the bottom when going across point? Thanks for any info.