Swan?

[Micheal Kyle]

Here is what I say and I own a fly shop use what ever you are most comfortable using. I like fly rods but I am not afraid to pick up a spinning rod. They both have there benefits and I assure you there will be times of the year one will work better than the other.

If I were going to spin fish for Whites and Walleye here is what I would be using stick baits, beetle spins, swimming minnows and just a plain jig under a float.

One the most effective baits for Whites in the spring are swimming minnows and a lipless crank baits or more commonly call a rattle trap.

Grays, Blues, Purple, Red, Chartreuse and White are very effective colors or any combo of the two colors

Good luck

Michael

[zander]

Just got back from Swan. I caught a few decent rainbows on a red and white PMS. Missed several more. Largest was 15-16 inches. About 4-ish a few white bass started to hit and one hit my fly so hard it took the tippet right out of the double surgeons knot I had used to join it to the leader. I talked Leonard into coming on over, and that was the kiss of death I guess the fish heard me tell him they were biting and they smartened up. Several boats did catch limits of whites, but even with spinning gear we couldn't reach where they were feeding. It was a beautiful day though and had a good time with Leonard anyway.

[Micheal Kyle]

We fished Beaver And Swan yesterday Started at about 3am and quit about 11am. We ended up with 8 whites 7 from Beaver and one from Swan. It was pretty cool yesterday and the wind was blowing from the East I new we should have just stayed home, but how would you know what is going on by doing that. We really did not see any one yesterday morning catching very many. I will say when the bite started it lasted for about 30 min and it was right at sunrise. and then it quit. Gray/ White clousers on a 150gr. sink tip.

I figured with the weather change being cooler that it might just not be a good day and when I saw the wind was going to be out of the east, My grandfather would not even fish when it blows out of the east I guess some old wise tale." When the wind blows out of the East the fish bite the least and when it blows from the west they bit the Best". I guess we proved that right yesterday, for us any way, some one Else might of had a bang up day.

Michael